WolframAlpha is Live: http://www.wolframalpha.com/ Updated

Posted by Celia Walter | 18 May, 2009

Making the world's knowledge computable

Today's Wolfram|Alpha is the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone.  You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer.   Based on a new kind of knowledge-based computing.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

 

Looking at Wolfram|Alpha: No Killers

First of all, Wolfram|Alpha is not a Web search engine. No, it’s not. It’s a Web aggregating engine, or a fact-checking engine, or a question-interpreting engine. It doesn’t present Web pages as results — according to its FAQ it doesn’t pull information from the Web at all. It’s not, as I understand them, a Web search engine...[More] From Researchbuzz

The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version)

Posted by Celia Walter | 18 May, 2009

A fascinating Youtube video The Machine is Us/ing Us opened the Netprophets Conference last week.

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How to embed almost anything in your HTML web pages

Posted by Celia Walter | 18 May, 2009
Learn how to embed almost anything in your HTML web pages from Flash videos to Spreadsheets to high resolution photographs to static images from Google Maps and more.From Digital Inspiration: http://www.labnol.org/internet/how-to-embed-in-html-webpages/6365/