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Wolfram Alpha a new search engine will start on May 2009. What is differences between Wolfram Alpha and the rest of the search engines ? Wolfram Alpha is based of mathematical algorithms and and heuristics. The search engine will give you the right answer for a question not  a amount of pages which contain single words or combination of words. Wolfram Alpha is developed by a team around Stephen Wolfram.  Stephen Wolfram is known for his works in theoretical particle physics, cosmology, cellular automata, complexity theory, and computer algebra. He is also the developer of Mathematica.
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Since 5/2005 I am member of xing.com (www.xing.com) formerly known as openbc. The first German business community. Many people I know from my job I am connected over Xing today. An advantage of being member of such a  B2B community is the fact that nearly every member keep the profile actual. I am still using this portal for find people who can offer me what I need for the job like products and informations. Until a couple month xing was my most important platform. This changed with being member in other social web 2.0 communities. Today most of my profiles in the net are merged over open API applications (API:application programming interface). xing doesn’t offer an open API. So my xing profile is not merged with my other profiles. I believe if xing will not offer such an API in a short time they will loose more and more share of the market.

In 1999 Shawn Fanning developed the napster software. The first software to share files over a P2P network. Napster was directly followed by winmx. This software had the function of instant messaging.  So users with the same interests met on a server and had the possibilities for a direct communication. Read the rest of this entry »

I remember it was 1999 as I tried friendscout24.  It was one of the first dating portals in Germany. As I came to friendscout there were maybe 100 thousand  members on the platform. After 2 weeks you nearly knew the most of the people out of your own area. Today they have more than 10 Million members. The spectrum of possibilities to communicate was limited. There was a internal messaging system but not more and you could upload one picture. Read the rest of this entry »

My first contact with the Internet was around 1988.  The most people associat internet with WWW but the WWW service came up around 1993.  In 1988 E-Mail service was brand new and it was the first of two services I used. The second service I used was FTP (file transfer protocol). FTP exists since 1971. The final version of ftp was made in 1985 and itś the version we still use today. I built my  first own homepage in 1994 and it was first time I was listed in a search engine. It was a time you had nearly no viruses and no spam. The fastest speed on your private  Internet connection was 9600 to 14400 baud.