Gnip 2.0 Launches, With A Business Model

Gnip , the guys that are helping move data around from one social network to the next, launched v 2.0 of the service tonight. The new version of the service allows data consumers (services like Plaxo that take data from other services, like Twitter, Friendfeed, Digg, Delicious, etc.) to have data from requested users pushed to them. It's no longer "Hey, TechCrunch just tweeted. Go query the API to get the data." Now it's "TechCrunch just tweeted - here's the data." Data consumers are no longer required to build pollers for any of the publishers pushing data into Gnip, they just give Gnip an endpoint and they push the data to them in real time.