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Last week Facebook launched Open Graph, a platform that allows sites and apps to share [Facebook] information about users in order to tailor content. Open Graph comes to compliment a series of site applications Facebook has been releasing for the past 9 months, that are all bucketed under Facebook for websites.

Facebook for websites is a suite of tools Facebook is working on, to extend their global domination outsite their domain, and into the entire web! Their key strategic areas are: 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