The time is ticking again, and surprisingly enough, the Internet has prepared a handful of new surprises in the meantime. Probably one of the most anticipated and revolutionary that is sure to reshape and realign the development on the Big web and might as well be called the innovation of the decade, is Wolfram’s WolframAlpha web search engine.
Some of you, mostly those that are in Computer Science, Mathematics or Physics related studies have already met Wolfram Mathematica, a great piece of software that’s become quite indispensable in my every day’s life. And now, we can finally enjoy all of the beauties, functionality and computational power of its algorithms on the Internet, for free. But the awesomeness doesn’t stop here, it continues with the search engine’s capability to serve you some cold facts about countries, finances, cities, important personalities and even more, all enriched with additional charts and data to help you get what you want. The usefulness of WolframAlpha is so enormous, that there’s been already released a Firefox plugin, that let’s you integrate Wolfram’s search in your Google home page. Now what do you want more for a perfect browsing experience?
As good as it may seem, it gets even better. This is not the only newcomer on the scene in the past few weeks. A few days ago Google announced a new real-time interface called Google Wave, that is said to be available to public later this year. But what is it all about? Wave is essentially a clone of Facebook’s home page and twitter, but with a much more rich interface and a wider range of applicability. Basically it’s a place where your and your friends’ s e-mail, pictures, videos, music, maps and more will be merged in a time-wave, enabling you to engage in real time conversations.
