Jeffery Rainey » news http://jefferyrainey.com web design and art bites Sun, 18 Sep 2011 02:32:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 New Website Launch, Today in Web http://jefferyrainey.com/2011/03/new-website-launch-today-in-web/ http://jefferyrainey.com/2011/03/new-website-launch-today-in-web/#comments Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:35:17 +0000 Jeff http://jefferyrainey.com/?p=151 This is just a quick plug for a new website that I launched, todayinwebdesign.com. This new site will serve as reference for me and hopefully a resource for others, featuring techniques and tools that I find useful.  I will be posting at least once weekly so please follow @todayinweb on twitter or become a fan of todayinweb on facebook.

]]> http://jefferyrainey.com/2011/03/new-website-launch-today-in-web/feed/ 0 Google TV Coming in Fall http://jefferyrainey.com/2010/05/google-tv-coming-in-fall/ http://jefferyrainey.com/2010/05/google-tv-coming-in-fall/#comments Thu, 20 May 2010 18:18:17 +0000 Jeff http://jefferyrainey.com/?p=111  

I am so ready for this!  Right now my rig for watching video via Hulu works, but is clunky. Read about it on TechCrunch

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Well, its not really a search engine, it is a “computational knowledge engine,”  but I will just say search engine since you are searching the knowledge base for things.  WolfRam|Alpha officially launched yesterday and it is really quite amazing.  Type in a word or query and WolfRam|Alpha spits out what it knows about it.  My first name for instance came back with information on rank, fraction of people with that name, years it was popular, the age of others with that name, etc.

But, the real power comes when you begin combining queries  to do things like math equations, stock comparisons, or sports comparisons.  I think the real value of something like this would be if they offer an API for programmers to call for real time information.  Oh, wait,  I just looked and they are doing that too!

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