Some might say that Mathematica and A New Kind of Science are ambitious projects.
But in recent years I’ve been hard at work on a still more ambitious project—called Wolfram|Alpha.
And I’m excited to say that in just two months it’s going to be going live:
Assemblyman Tom Ammiano's press conference this morning announcing his marijuana-legalization bill started punctually and stayed relentlessly on-point -- thereby denying a barb to every journalist pre
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Hate to break it to you, but that clairvoyant you've been paying daily to read you fortune cookies while blindfolded actually isn't some sort of medium. Tough to swallow, we know. That said, researchers at Canada's largest children's rehabilitation hospital are getting closer to equipping entrepreneurial individuals with the tools they need to read minds. By measuring the intensity of near-infrared light absorbed in brain tissue, scientists were able to decode a person's preference for one of two drinks with 80 percent accuracy, all without a single minute of training on the human's behalf ...
By Rob Diana of Regular Geek (Twitter/FriendFeed)
People that read this blog regularly know that I am a big proponent of the conversation. I blog about what conversation may or may not be. I have written a tool to let you track where in social media people are talking about your blog post or some keyword you want to watch. I do this as a software engineer with no formal training in psychology, sociology or marketing. I do this as someone who regularly engages in conversations each day, as a normal person. In order to keep myself up to ...
The Google-owned RSS feed-management service FeedBurner has received criticism from bloggers in recent months. These issues were widely reported on blogs including Google Operating System, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Louis Gray, Crenk, The Inquisitr, ReadWriteWeb, CenterNetworks, GeekNewsCentral, CM Connection, Brenelz’s Web Development, Haacked, Speed of Creativity, The Rimm-Kaufman Group, How-To Geek and CostPerNews. When FeedBurner cofounder Steve Olechowski, now Business Product Manager at AdSense, expressed his desire to respond to these criticisms on behalf of Google, we took the blogosphere’s questions to him. Steve is the product manager for the AdSense for feeds program, which “includes both the AdSense for ...
As President Barack Obama was giving his inauguration speech, another transfer of power was happening online. At exactly 12 PM ET, Whitehouse.gov, the official Website of the President switched over to a new design. There are links to Obama's Agenda and a Briefing Room where citizens will be able to find Obama's weekly Web video address, appointments and nominations, executive orders, and slideshows.
And, of course, there is a blog (without comments, though—understandable given all the trolls and spammers, but it seems like some kind of tiered community moderation could work here). The first blog post ...
The integration of the status ...
It’s the first month of a new year and at this time I’m itching to start new web ventures both for fun and profit. I usually do up a list of possible startup and site ideas and narrow them down into those with the highest potential. But success depends on execution and not just plans [...]
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Barack Obama was just sworn in as President of the US and though he stumbled in repeating his oath, the speech that followed was delivered flawlessly and was widely praised around the web. (Several readers have told us that it wasn't Obama that stumbled, it was Justice Roberts.) There were quite a few concepts discussed that we suspect haven't been a part of past inaugural speeches. What words were used most often? We ran the full text of the speech through tag cloud generator
As President Barack Obama was giving his inauguration speech, another transfer of power was happening online. At exactly 12 PM ET,
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