Where’s the rest of the content? Or is this a REALTIME blog post? I would be impressed if this were on purpose. Someone tell me it is. What are the features?

ts;dr

Trying out commenting without FB login. Love you guys.

OK, here’s my comment:

HAHA

Hoping they are trying something new with this one.

It just cut off at Among the Features:
WTF. Is this a liveblog? lulz

Perfect timing, as this important acedemic paper came out just today: http://bit.ly/cBuvLb

Does it work via extension? Twitter clients? Faster @ev, FASTER!

* academic

This doesn’t seem substantive enough to be exciting. It’s also odd because Twitter doesn’t have enough information to even make this interesting on 3rd party site. Fail!

I honestly prefer Oauth over Facebook Connect. Gives a less “locked in” feel.

Sounds like a minor announcement to me. Also, I can only image how millions more daily API calls are going to impact Twitter’s performance. To compare this thing to Facebook Connect is completely incorrect. Facebook Connect provides universal login and access to rich user data. This just provides more noise.

So, for example, if this was implemented here on TC then if you hovered over my name with your mouse (on this comment) then a “Twitter information” pop up would display? Is this similar to the “Twitter information” pop up that currently displays on Twitter.com when hovering over a persons name or avatar now?

Interesting but kind of unimpressive.

I think that’s exactly it. OAuth + an added AJAX layer. Yawn …

[...] [via TechCrunch] [...]

Well, I have http://HoverCard.com , anybody wants it :D

Not technologically impressive, but very useful for both producers and consumers.

I don’t see a single thing about this that’s interesting or exciting? Am I just not Web 2.0 enough or something?

I don’t think you’ll need oauth for that. It will just be a js snippet, something like kontera ads

Is @anywhere available for any website that wishes to use it?

I hope @anywhere will not affect the performance of your website, in terms of load times

So this will be a paid service yes? I see content/amazon peeps paying, will the pay to followness be found in the API love as well? A follow tax for seemsic and tweetie?

OMG!! I insist that you take my offer of ONE BILLION DOLLARS!!

If i could thumb up your comment, I would

Does everyone just wait to see what the competition does then steal it?

[...] include Amazon, Bing, Digg, eBay, The Huffington Post, The NY Times, Yahoo and YouTube. [via TechCrunch and Twitter Blog] tweetmeme_url = 'http://gadgetcrave.com/twitter-launches-at-anywhere/6117/'; [...]

Interesting move and the idea is simple: The more integration into other sites, the more you secure your market share. It’s not about Web 2.0, it’s about making yourself indispensable. Google showed us that being an octopus is a real advantage…

Yeah, but you will need OAuth to initially connect – like “Connect with Twitter” which already exists. So, OAuth + an added AJAX layer, with the added AJAX layer being the only new thing announced.

If I were Google, I would be scared. Their whole business is predicated on online atvertising … oh … wait …

While this may be true I agree with the OP that the feature itself isn’t exactly “conference announcement” worthy.

Also, releasing this to a small group of large companies only, contradicts the entire concept and foundation of social media. The reasons for doing it are obvious, but selectively releasing a new feature to a handful of big companies is pretty old hat.

I don’t think so. Fbook connect is free and easy to use. Maybe a freemium model in there…

It’s a great business idea to expand the company’s reach. Probably a billion impressions against these links within a few weeks given those partners.

For the smaller publishers, I hacked together something in 2 minutes that might be of interest:

[script language='javascript']
document.body.innerHTML = document.body.innerHTML.replace(/@([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/g,”[a href='http://twitter.com/$1']@$1[/a]“);
[/script]

You’d just replace the [s with s for the html that you’d put just above the /body tag. Doesn’t degrade performance, tested with FF 3.6 and IE 8. Enjoy

This can’t be good for the Twitter clients who were trying to be businesses.

[...] core functionality of the two sites. And I finally got there when I heard about @anywhere. Since TechCrunch posted the message from SXSW, I couldn’t get it out of my head. Twitter has launched an @anywhere campaign to [...]

haha… well I was lookin at somewhere around 1.00127 billion dollars… so for you.. it’s Not Sold :P

[...] http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/15/twitters-new-at-anywhere-platform-allows-for-deeper-integration-int... [...]

Jason – Good call on this being Twitter’s answer to “Facebook connect”.

We are looking forward to more details on this.

well its appearing now.. if you have checked huffingtonpost today, you can see that it has this twitter chatbox, and it helps to make users engage more on a particular topic.

I just hope twitter will keep on improving though…

[...] and point you to their blog post here as well as the live-blogging here and TechCrunch’s writeup here.  While the whole speech was interesting, the part that really excited us was the announcement of [...]

Twitter is one step closer to conquering the world now.

[...] a good write-up from TechCrunch about the features and third-party partners (so [...]

[...] If you thought you spent a lot of time tweeting and reads tweets before, that number could get even higher thanks to “@anywhere,” the site’s new feature announced at Austin’s South by Southwest festival (SXSW) this week. The platform is intended to allow third-party sites to integrate Twitter more deeply and smoothly than they currently can. The idea is to offer a more seamless experience to Twitter users navigating third party sites like the Huffington Post and the New York Times, giving them Twitter content without forcing them to jump off the page they’re currently viewing [TechCrunch]. [...]

Interesting move and the idea is simple

[...] Here is TechCrunch’s List of features: [...]

[...] program that allows other sites to implement some of Twitter’s features. TechCrunch gave a quick overview of what it could do, CNET’s Caroline McCarthy looked at its targeting of Facebook Connect, [...]

[...] Twitter Announces @anywhere – Ok, so what this is (massively simplified) is Twitter’s next step in terms of integrating itself with other, 3rd party websites. The TechCrunch piece linked to in the title is a decent overview (and this is a shorter one)- what it doesn’t seemingly touch on, though, is the potential implications for the development of a ‘universal’ online identity. Could this be a first step into the creation of a one login / username culture, integrated across all platforms? The BBC’s announcement yesterday of greater integration with both Facebook and Twitter would suggest it could be…Oh, and at the same time Twitter also declared that it wanted to be ‘A Force For Good’. Isn’t that nice? And…er…haven’t we heard that before somewhere? [...]

[...] was disappointed when Twitter announced their @anywhere platform a few weeks back. Not that it’s not a good idea. I think it’s logical to want to [...]

[...] his keynote at SXSW last month, Twitter CEO Evan Wiliams announced an upcoming new platform called @anywhere, which would allow third party sites to integrate Twitter [...]

[...] month at SXSW, Twitter CEO Ev Williams announced @anywhere, a new platform that would allow external sites to integrate some key Twitter features [...]