You’ve probably always have associated Ruby on Rails with Twitter, but
Scala has recently been getting the attention after Twitter’s back-end code are slowly being migrated from
Ruby on Rails to Scala:
“For Payne, who oversees Twitter’s API development, your ticket to the web promised land is Scala, the next-generation language developed by Martin Odersky at [...]

Apparently, the notion of isolation was totally wrong. We’re more social than ever!

Here’s an early look at LiveClick, real-time clickable video streaming that takes interactive video on the web to a new level. You can click on the degfined hotspots in the running video even without pausing it.