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Searching Craigslist for something, or even funny ads, just became easier with Craiglook. This website essentially "mashes two great Web 2.0 services [Yahoo Pipes and Google Maps] to load RSS [feeds] from your local Craigslist community." There's currently 3-million plus listings added daily, with a total of 18.3-million in the entire database.
That's right, Google Maps now offers biking directions in the US. Just enter your destination, and you'll get step-by-step directions, complete with outlined trails, biking lanes, and bike-friendly roads.

Yahoo has formed a partnership with Twitter to help boost the company's social features. With this partnership, users will be able "to view the short, 140-character messages created by Twitter users, dubbed Tweets, directly within Yahoo sites as well as to publish their own Twitter messages without leaving Yahoo.

That's right, Twitter now processes 50-million tweets per day, and approximately 1.5-billion tweets per month. This data comes from Twitter itself, as "Royal Pindom was measuring 27 million Tweets a day back in November, 2009." Continue reading for a visualization video that "uses Twitter searches for phrases like 'just landed in', 'arrived at' to create a real time trend of movement based on social networking information."





