Another of Yahoo!’s web services bites the dust. I’m a user of the service, as I am for Delicious, another of Yahoo!’s services that they identified as wanting to off-load in an announcement they made last month (January). It’s a pity because I’ve…
More evidence that open systems and open standards are more likely dominate social business and the socia, web? I think so.Amplify’d from www.imedicalapps.comAndroid was the most popular mobile platform at the end of 2010, according to a press rel…
URL: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/02/17/is-something-wro…I think the last two paras say it all for me: “The risk with Google’s steady stream of new features is that most will not click with enough consumers. But it’s just as likely that peop…
URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/12/stephe…I don’t know about Google, but Mike Lynch (Autonomy founder) eat your heart out! Having frequently used the WolframAlpha website I can testify to the fact that it is as close as you’ll…
May the National Identity Scheme rest in peace. Maybe all those people who were persuaded to fork out for the cost of an ID card can claim a refund (good luck with that!). Is anyone betting that it won’t get resurrected under some future administr…
If you read nothing else, check out the last para: “If we keep seeing the same links and catchphrases ricocheting around our social networks, it might mean we are being exposed only to what we want to hear…You might say to yourself: ‘I am in a g…
URL: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hinchcliffe/assessing-the-bus…The latest surveys continue to show the social computing provides real business benefits, but is it really as rosy as all that? Dion Hinchcliffe takes a closer look at what benefits ar…
A useful article about Quora. I’m still trying to make up my mind about it. I started using the service about 2 weeks ago, since when I’ve asked one question (currently not answered) and responded to three questions. However, I’ve started to follo…
I’ve been following WolframAlpha for some time – they have an intriguing (some may say mysterious) business model based on a very powerful semantic search platform with ability to answer any and every question with speed and accuracy. I was intrig…
Wolfram Alpha have announced a big change to its pricing plans which gives non-commercial users 2,000 free calls a month. Also mention of an upcoming data API, which sounds like it might offer a more programmer-friendly version of the results. Any…
