As you may know, this year’s South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSWi) opens this week in Austin, Texas and along with it comes its usual torrent of conferences, countless booths showcasing the latest proofs of concept technologies and of course, the legendary SXSW parties. And while Internet company CEOs and Web celebrities, students and people from the press hobbled around from one hallway to another in what is considered as the annual hub of the next hottest Web app, Twitter CEO Evan Williams sat casually as he previewed in his keynote the microblogging giant’s latest brainchild, @anywhere.

@anywhere is a new platform that allows for a deeper integration with other Web sites. This would allow users quick access to their Twitter profiles without actually leaving the current site their browsers are on. Moreover, it will let Web publishers and developers of partner sites to funnel in relevant tweets to their Web sites by simply inserting a few lines of javascript into the page’s code instead of wrestling with the complexities of personalizing the Twitter API (application program interface) to their needs.

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