Big news item today with Facebook announcing that they are going to, imminently, support OpenID. OpenID is an attempt at geting an industry standard in enabling authorisation accross websites. It basically allows you to login to multipe sites with the same ID. The big advantage of this is, bar the need not to have to create multiple usernames and passwords, but how sites can implement functionality that makes use of the users social graph. This is going to be an interesting development over the coming year. In other big news on the web over last few days has been the launch of the Wolfram Alpha search engine which is a semantic search engine that claims it parses real language and gives accurately interpreted answers to questions posed. I think its fair to say that its got a particularly mathematical focus. Its most definitely worth playing around. Especially if you want to be in with the Cool gang - lots of talk and references to it online at present.

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