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Your next energy company?
http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersINCOnlineReport/idUSTRE5592X120090610
No surprise really. Logical in fact. Carbon footprint and cloud computing are an "inverse relationship." The commitment is evidenced by the data-center sitings close to dams.
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It does look like that Google is taking Wolfram Alpha pretty seriously. I will be trying out both "Alpha" and Google Squared to see how they compare. In the meantime, here's CNN's take on the current state of the Search industry:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/05/12/future.search.engine/index.html
| Quote: | If you ask Google a question, the search engine's computers scan the Web for matching search terms and come up with answers that make the most sense statistically. Alpha, by contrast, pulls information from existing data sets that have been approved by the site's math-minded staff. The site then computes an answer to your question.
An example will help this make sense.
Say you wanted to find out nutritional information for your favorite recipe. On Google, you would have to search each ingredient individually and then add the calories and fat grams together yourself. With Alpha, you can type in the full recipe and the site produces a completed graphic that looks like it came right off the side of a cereal box. |
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Have you taken a spin on the GOOG's new "Wonder Wheel"?
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=17842
This of course was somebody else's I remember using back in 2000 but....hey, it's the GOOG.
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If you like april fool's jokes check out Gmail's "new" auto-pilot.
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Used Google Voice to call france today. Next up, Mars:
http://earth.google.com/mars/giovanni.html
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You beat me to it. Here's MIT Technology Review's take on it:
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22047/?nlid=1740&a=f
| Quote: | Sylvia Earle, a renowned oceanographer and former chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), played an integral role in adding ocean data to Google Earth. She and Henke met at an event in 2006 where she raved about Google Earth but noted that it should really be called "Google Dirt" because it ignored the part of the planet covered by water. Since then, the pair has worked to add ocean data to the platform.
At today's event, Earle demonstrated a number of new Google Earth features. A user can, for instance, view the migration patterns of the great white shark and see the sort of underwater terrain that the shark sees on its long journey. Earle also showed how the different ocean surface temperatures can be tracked. "You can track the importance of temperature in how El Niņo and La Niņa form," she said today.
The ocean data added to Google Earth includes more than 50,000 separate measurements, such as the elevation of underwater terrain and more than 20,000 extra pieces of information, including videos, pictures, and text excerpts, said Henke. This information can be added to the virtual map using a taskbar in the software. |
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