News See Wolfram Alpha in Action: Our Screenshots Last weekend, we attended a web demo of Wolfram Alpha, a new "computational knowledge engine" based on the work of Stephen Wolfram. Some have dubbed Alpha a "Google killer," but, in reality, it is very different from the standard search engines that we are all familiar with today. When we got the demo, Wolfram asked us to refrain from publishing… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Analysis The Robot Made Me Do It: Comparing Three New Cyborg Q&A Services One part people, one part machine. Is that a formula for more effective decision making? A number of high-profile entrepreneurs believe it is, and they are starting companies based on the idea. In the following post we take a look at three of the most exciting startups entering this emerging market. The movement is a logical development now… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Google Gmail, Now With Added Magic! Embedded Google Web Search Via the Official Gmail Blog, the best news since the lunar landing: Go into your Gmail account, click on the Google Labs icon, and enable Google Search in your Gmail account. A simple little search box will appear right there in your sidebar. But that's not even the awesome part. The range of tricks you can play with the search results is… Jolie O'Dell View comments
News Study: Employees Will Find Ways to Route Around Corporate Firewalls Earlier this week, we reported that a large number of businesses worry that social networking could endanger corporate security, but according to a new report from Palo Alto Networks, social networking is only a minor issue when compared to the proliferation of browser-based file sharing tools, P2P networks, remote desktop access applications… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Social Web Groups: The Secret Weapon of the Social Web Social interaction online is not very sophisticated. The news feed model of conversation has taken over the social web, from Facebook to Twitter to FriendFeed to MySpace, but by itself it doesn't serve us very well. That's where the creation of groups of sources comes in. Various services have different ways for users to separate their "friends… Social Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments