Andrej Koelewijn

I’ve just been watching the google wave presentation. Pretty amazing application, it’ll probably scare the hell out of a number of communication software providers. But what’s even more amazing is that it’s almost entirely build using HTML 5. Just one feature needs the Google Gears plugin: drag and drop of desktop resources to the web-page. [...]

Some good info on Wolfram Alpha: Impressive: The Wolfram Alpha “Fact Engine” and See Wolfram Alpha in Action: Our Screenshots. The screenshots suggest that Wolfram Alpha has more in common with Business Intelligence tooling than with search engines. And the database they’re building to support this is a big datawarehouse containing data from selected sources: [...]