There has been a lot of fuss going on lately regarding Stephen Wolfram’s ambitious project to create a comprehensive "computational knowledge engine." called Wolfram/Alpha.
UPDATE: Stephan Wolfram now also started a blog at http://blog.wolframalpha.com/
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University hosted yesterday 27 April 2009 a sneak preview of the Wolfram|Alpha system.
This [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Wolfram/Alpha vs Google: 0-1
Posted in Corporate Values, Personal Values, Semantic Web on April 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Old Game – New Game April 2009
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a start of a new series, i will regularly post examples of old-new game economy.
As a starter, a slide i once made as input to my Leading by Being Coming-Out. For more info on Leading by Being, please go to my very first post on this blog.
On the left the “old” culture, on the [...]
Think Big – Think Open
Posted in Cloud, Identity, Semantic Web, WebTrends, xstof on April 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My friend xstof pointed me at ThinkBigManifesto. I started this blog with “Inspire others to Dream”. It could have been “Inspire others to Think Big”. And the advertising text of ThinkBigManifesto suggests: “Big thinking is open and generous, discerning and judicious, yet not judgmental. Big thinking is not excessive, nor is it about the pursuit [...]
NUI, XUI, TUI ?
Posted in Identity, Personal Values, Singularity, User Interface, xstof on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
No, this is not the name of the latest song i have been teaching to my 3 1/2 year old daughter.
I am just going completely crazy these days about touch-driven devices, and found some new acronyms in this space:
NUI: Natural User Interface. Examples are Surface and Jeff Han’s touch interfaces
XUI: XML User Interface
So, i decided [...]
Smart Data go mainstream
Posted in Cloud, Mash-ups, Semantic Web, Singularity, xstof on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Smart Data are the promise of the Semantic Web.
And yes, i heard the pitches from Tim-Berners Lee. But that sounded all so far away and abstract, and i could not imagine what it would give me as added value.
But the video & site below put this into a competitive advantage context and that’s where it [...]
Jing
Posted in Uncategorized on April 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Looking for a nice free tool to capture parts of screens, make a screen video tutorial, share this via the web, integrated with Facebook, YouTube, etc ?
Go Jing.
And the tutorials are super. This is how software always should be.
My new desktop: touch and 3D of course
Posted in User Interface on April 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There are so many things going on in desktop space.
In a previous blog, i already pointed to some examples on how touch, screen, and gestures are coming together.
I am an ex-Microsoft employee and still have some Redmond blood in my veins – so I am biased.
At home, I am currently on a Vista Home [...]
Solar or Human/Kinetic Phone: a “k-Phone” ?
Posted in User Interface on April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is one for gadget people.
Below LG’s Solar Phone. Does look a bit industrial, no ?
Then i prefer Samsumg’s latest solar power eco-mobile phone that really has the looks:
But what about the latest concept from Kyocera: a kinetic energy-powered phone that is capable of folding up like a wallet.
The phone consists [...]
Fasten your Seatbelts for a trip to AlloSphere
Posted in Singularity, User Interface on April 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Stunning data visualization.
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin demos the AlloSphere, an entirely new way to see and interpret scientific data, in full color and surround sound inside a massive metal sphere. Dive into the brain, feel electron spin, hear the music of the elements …
