The Tetherless World Weblog

I saw a webinar demo of Wolfram|Alpha given by Stephen Wolfram today — the system is very impressive — (you can read my blog about it on the Nature Network)

One thought struck me - we’re trying to do open-linked data, while what Wolfram has is an impressive engine that uses the “closed” knowledge that lets them do curation, testing and computation.  Sort of like open social networks vs. the many specialized ones — still, he shows what is possible with data and a good computational engine, and I think that will be generally good for all of us “data on the web” types.

(Jim H.)