Wolfram Alpha

It is very interesting. I'm researching this at the moment for a presentation I want to do at work before I go - a parting gift if you like!

I watched a webcast on Web3.0 the other night by the guy that originally invented the internet.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html

The guy, Tim Berners-Lee is not a particularly good speaker however in my view he's a pretty incredible person to have invented the internet! No piece of technology has had so much of an affect on our lives in the last 50 - 100 years. He makes it sound so simple.

Other sites of interest (maybe only interesting to geeks like myself...)

http://anthillonline.com/the-history-of-the-internet-visualised/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

He was presenting at TED how web2.0 is/was all about bringing people together (Facebook, MySpace etc). His view/prediction is that Web3.0 is all about bringing data together. That is making Data available for all to share and interpret. Obviously there are copyright issues, but its not to say that some data would be valuable to others and not create privacy issues. This Wolfram site begins to set up systems that might be able to make sense of all this data. I personally don't have a use for Wolfram at the moment so its irrelevant however I like toys so will be keeping an eye on it as it evolves. It is cool, that's for sure.