If you want to get in the habit of using Wolfarm Alpha along with Google as your mainstay, there's a ray of hope for you.  All you need is the new Firefox add on that lets you keep using Google while showing Wolfram Alpha results on the side of the page. I've used it for some time now and it seems a handy tool to keep Wolfram Alpha hanging on with Google. What you would see is the Wolfarm Alpha results on the aligned to a side of your page.

In the current trend, a real-time layer of functionality to consumer websites and businesses can be the top attraction for online environments. Clearly, the real-time game will speed up the infrastructure. The real time information sharing on a user's experience of a website can have a long lasting effect (take Twitter for  an e.g. of the expression - real term). One of the latest service into the real time market is Notify.me. The service has rolled out two Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that will enable the publishers to provide sophisticated real time notification of events to their readers and interface designers, in order to extracts notices as they become online.  The company is striving to set its foot in medial industry, in addition to financial, shipping, and software businesses.

Yahoo! Geo Technologies announced at Where 2.0 in San Jose, California with the launch of a new web service Yahoo! Placemaker as a part of their vision of Open Location. The new release followed the Yahoo! GeoPlanet that is an attempt to bridge  the gap between the real and virtual worlds by providing an open, perennial, and intelligent infrastructure for geo-referencing data on the Internet. Basically Placemaker is an open API that assists the developers in making applications and data sets location aware. The services has been designed to equip the developers with the means to geo-enrich their content, such as web pages, blog posts, status updates, feeds, news articles, as well as their applications which make use of such information.  It is a geo-enrichment service that assists in determining the location of unstructured content and helps make the Internet increasingly hyper local.

Twitter's shooting up at a reckless pace as if it's got a nitro boost.  Figures released by comScore reveals that Twitter's global unique visitor this April had touched 32 million, gaining 13 million visitors since March 2009. Twitter flaunts 17 million unique visitors in U.S alone. It has surpassed the likes of Digg at 32 million, LinkedIn at 16 million and NYTimes at 17.5 with an overwhelming margin, according to comSource. In fact, comSource only measures the number of people who visit Twitter website and not the millions more who send and read tweets via their phones, desktop apps, or other Websites.  Twitter.com has also taken over Bebo and Freindster for what it is worth.  

KOLKATA - Telecom operator Sistema Shyam Teleservices is planning to outsource a portion of its Internet infrastructure to global IT behemoth IBM, and hopes to sew up the deal some time next year, people aware of the development say. Sistema Shyam, a joint venture company between Russia's Sistema and India's Shyam group, plans to outsource 'a portion' of its IT infrastructure, an industry official told IANS requesting anonymity.