Search A Computational Knowledge Engine on Your Site: Wolfram Alpha Launches Widget Builder Until now, Wolfram Alpha's computational knowledge engine was mostly tied to the project's website. Starting today, however, users will also be able to use the Wolfram Alpha Widget Builder to bring some of Wolfram Alpha's power to their own sites. The service, which is launching as a public beta today, allows anybody to quickly create a Wolfram… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Cloud Computing China Media Drops The F-Bomb on Tencent - Novell's New Cloud Partner The news came recently that Novell will be developing a cloud-computing platform with Tencent, China's largest Internet service provider. As part of the deal, the two companies will establish a research laboratory in Shenzen, China that will be used to develop the data center network that will serve as the cloud platform. These kinds of deals… Alex Williams View comments
New Media StumbleUpon: The Silent Social Media Success Story When you think of social media, two products immediately come to mind: Facebook and Twitter. If you're in the technical world, you'd probably also mention Digg and Slashdot. A product that is rarely talked about among social media products, but has a surprisingly large footprint on the Web, is StumbleUpon. It now has 10.6 million users and… Social Richard MacManus View comments
Location Check In While Checking Out: CardStar Adds Foursquare Integration Mobile loyalty card application CardStar is today announcing integration with popular location-based service Foursquare in its newly updated iPhone application, CardStar 3.0. Now, as CardStar users present their mobile phones to merchants for scanning, they can also be automatically "checked in" to that business on Foursquare. The CardStar mobile… Mobile Sarah Perez View comments
News Ask.com Gets Back to Its Roots: Launches Q&A Service Ask.com launched in 1996 and even though the site went through a number of changes through the years (remember Jeeves?), it is still one of the first services many Internet users think of when looking for a site where they can get their questions answered. Today, after trying to compete with Google as a general search engine for a while, Ask.com is… Frederic Lardinois View comments