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It’s great that Sites like OneRiot who just launched their real-time search and officially exited beta can orgnanise real time Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and Digg, but who needs that?

OneRiot

A quick look on OneRiot and it’s like looking at OK!Magazine combined with Google news and tech crunch:  Canadian beavers, Ipad, Oil spill, Will Smith’s new video, Pelin talks about who she likes, Girls Gone Wild and smoking mamas keep their babies up… Yikes!

So ok, the homepage OneRiot has chosen to go with is not very useful, but how do they fair in categories or vertical topics? Like travel? Things are suddently starting to get VERY interesting indeed! Continue reading

Wolfram Alpha has opened to the public, and those who’ve had the opportunity to see what it does know that it’s not really a Google killer.

Wolfram Alpha doesn’t do traditional search very well, in fact if you try the terms most people search for, cheap flights, holidays, car insurance, laptops, hotels, loans, train tickets and mobile phones, and naturally porn, in most cases there won’t be an answer you can get from Wolfram Alpha.

So why is Wolfie a big deal? What does it do well?

• It’s fantastic for geeks – so all the techcrunch geeks write about it
• Great for Journalists / Marketing / research: For example find out European internet users trends in seconds!
• Weather: It’s weather history and interface looks very promising. You could ask what was the weather like in a specific location 35 years ago – on your birthday for example – and if there was a tide. Continue reading