IN THIS ISSUE:

• WolframAlpha - Making the Web Computable 
• How to Manage All of Those Twitter Accounts

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WOLFRAMALPHA - MAKING THE WEB COMPUTABLE

Remember in Star Trek, when crew members aboard a space ship were able to simply say, "Computer," and then ask the computer some question about a planet, civilization, or fellow crew member? In reply, Computer would rattle off a bunch of information, some bits more useful than others. It was all very cool and futuristic.

Well, thanks to WolframAlpha.com, that's almost not "futuristic" anymore.

The main difference between what we are calling "Web 2.0" (the internet as we have known it over the last few years) and "Web 3.0" is the integration with current technology of databases in ways that are useful and meaningful to us, also known as the Semantic Web (also see a video, here).

In the video below, Stephen Wolfram explains his new "computable knowledge engine." You need to be a little smarter than I am to think of intelligent queries for this search engine right now, and it's so new that everyone is still in the "let's-play-with-this-and-see-what-it-can-do" phase, rather than the "oh-cool-this-is-going-to-save-me-a-lot-of-time-!" phase that it will be in shortly after we all figure out what it can do, and after it's beefed up a little. But keep an eye on this one. It promises to be a key player in the development of the web.

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• About WolframAlpha
• #WolframAlpha Discussion on Twitter
• Mashable: Five Things that WolframAlpha Does Better (And Vastly Different) than Google

HOW TO MANAGE ALL OF THOSE TWITTER ACCOUNTS

Those of you who are still planning to someday try "that Twitter thing," don't need to read any further. Also, if you "only" have one Twitter account, this post is not for you.

Some folks, however, have found it necessary to have more multiple Twitter accounts, which they use for different reasons. For example, if you're a blogger, you may have one which is an auto-feed of your blog posts, and one that is for general discussion. Or, you may also have different Twitter accounts for different groups of friends, say one for your political activist network, and one for your personal friends, etc..

If this is you, then go check out 25 Twitter Apps to Manage Multiple Accounts by Jennifer Van Grove on Mashable. She's done some great research about which ones will work from your mobile or or from your desktop, and what each is good for. Check it out, a here.

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