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How Twitter, Google, Wolfram|Alpha and WIkipedia are not competing at all

Pietro — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:49:43 +0000

It seems to me that Twitter, Google, and Wolfram|Alpha, are really not competing at all, but are instead providing complementary services. I would go farther by adding wikipedia (and blogs?), and suggest that the 4 services really represent the digestive process of our information society. From the first Churning to the Backbone

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My Sunday Treasure Hunt: Enzymes and Digestion

Pietro — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 05:06:33 +0000

If you go around the net, looking for information about enzymes and digestion, you often find detailed explanations. Explenations that generally say that enzymes come in a limited quantity, that if you eat raw food you are taking in new enzymes, thus not depleting your resources but if you eat cooked food you deactivate the [...] No related posts.

Duck and Cover and the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Pietro — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:53:48 +0000

Internet is really great. How you can take a topic, or an article and dig in it for as much time as you want is wonderful.

Yesterday I read the “Open the Archive” on how archives need to both be protected and be cosulted. And how Microsoft bought Corbis and now it is conserving the [...] Related posts:

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wikipedia fast search

Pietro — Fri, 26 Nov 2004 10:53:27 +0000

I added an extra bookmarklet. I was in this room with 25 great minds discussing molecular dynamics inquantum fields. I couldn’t understand a iota. Luckily new talks are given in places with wifi connection. So to try to get up to speed with what was going on I wrote a small wikipedia fast search.

Now I could just type “w molecule” in the link bar and the browser would automatically go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecule.

So how do you do it? Just copy the link in your bookmarks. Copy it in the “Quick Search” directory, then edit the properties and add keyword “w”. And voil� . Following a talk with it is much faster.

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