Earlier this month, Bing began to return certain celebrities' most recent tweets on its main results pages. Now, a side project has taken the real-time search integration much further, with BingTweets turning up all sorts of Twitter-related info together with a more standard set of search results.
BingTweets, which is in beta, is a result of a partnership between Bing, Federated Media, and Twitter. The most interesting thing about it is that users can see a constantly-growing list of tweets in which their query term features.
Update: ExecTweets is not the only thing Twitter is advertising. You can also see other ads for things like TwitterVision, Tweetie, etc. in the little box that previously only advertised Twitter services. Everything still looks to be at least Twitter-related at this point. And from the sound of it, they're not making a money off of it.
Of the seven navigational tabs on Savvian's website, the third is titled "Mergers and Acquisitions." And a connection between Savvian and Federated Media may revolve around exactly that topic.
The people behind the Boing Boing blog have updated the layout of the site, featuring more prominent positioning for rich media advertising.
I've said it before: Sell out first. That way they expect it from you. Another blogstorm erupted last weekend over Federated Media's involvement with Microsoft's new "conversational marketing" idea.
An ad campaign featuring the black-clad shinobi behind the Ask A Ninja videos leads its viewers to special Ask.com Smart Answers and bonus ninja videos.
Author of "The Search" and BoingBoing.net "band manager" John Battelle's Federated Media scooped up its first round of venture capital funding.
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