[p2p-research] Implications of Alpha

[marc fawzi]

It would be infinitely more useful is he'd open it up as a service
(software as a service, to be accessed from other Web and P2P client
applications.

I could think of many uses for its data collection and computational
capability in decision support systems as well as in any software that
needs to make decisions based on real world data.

Letting people use it directly, as opposed to having it be a backend
service for software developed by others, is a huge mistake, IMO.


On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been thinking about Wolfram's Alpha.  The question I'd like to ask him
> is, what will it change.
>
> I saw JOHO's (David Weinberger's) interview.  It was fascinating.
>
> Here's my 2 cents:  The research paper and the informing blog post may be
> dead.  Yes, stringing ideas together to make a point is still useful, but
> now anyone can answer a question properly structured.  So, ideas may become
> more changes of queries.
>
> Another separate point, Michel recently sent around an academic Call for
> Papers for a P2P conference.  Isn't that a bit odd, inherently?  A COP on
> P2P?
>
> Ryan Lanham
>
>
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