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The article forgot to say that Steven talk
at Harvard tomorrow and that the talk is available over webcast.

See http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2009/04/wolfram

While we are waiting for alpha you might like
to play 2 other knowleadge engines like:
http://start.csail.mit.edu/
and
http://quizbot.trueknowledge.com/

PS. Also check out my news site
http://crowdnews.eu/

On my site http://crowdnews.eu/ 100% of the sign ups is by openid.

I looked at your website and it has less then 20 users, no wonder it's 100%.

On my site http://crowdnews.eu/ 100% of the sign ups
is by openid.
But thats becouse it is the only option.

If openid is the only options for login
it does simplify the database structure for your site. But the code become more complex.

Also there are some bugs in the openid 2.0 specs. which makes it unsafe and costly.

Also I feel that openid is missing support for online shopping.

I have often felt that the should be easier way to supply all the info they ask, when you buy something online. Also postal address is usely formatted different depending of the region you live in. It would be nice if openid just had a field called postal_address which containd it in a correct user supplied format.

If the openid consortium could make openid 3.0
which made online shopping easier and maybe included a technology like http://ripple.sourceforge.net/
without the bugs in 2.0 then I think it would have a good purpose.

At first, I thought he had managed
to make a force field around the car using a tesla coil.

But then I saw that he was just rotating a pole connected to a tesla coil around the car, what a disappointment.

It might actually be possible to make a force field with a Tesla coil if you can find the correct field harmonics.
See http://amasci.com/freenrg/audwall.html

You might also have to know something about
quaternionic electromagnetism to pull it of.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/4445/quaternionic-electrodynamics

Also if you think that slashdot stories have been
to low quality lately then maybe you should try http://crowdnews.eu/

I have submitted a project to googles 10^100 compatition that will solve the 4 problems with wikipedia he lists.

The project name is wikixandria and the idea is to make a p2p wiki library.

If the project wins 10^100 we will soon have an academy-friendly alternative to wikipedia.

Also lets remember that is also possible to store knowledge in a knowledge base. Like they do at true knowledge and the let a computer answare our questions.

Also take a loke at my "p2p" news-site crowdnews.eu

As companies grow older, they seem to become more and more stymied by a PHB than driven intellectually by those who first made it's growth possible.

How Software Companies Die
http://crowdnews.eu/stories/view/38/

If you want to read news for needs, stuff that matters.

Then try. Crowdnews.

Yes, try out Crowdnews

I think it is more the design of sites like digg and friends that is the problem.

I am designing a new news site called http://crowdnews.eu/

On crowdnews you subscribe to other users a little like twitter and then you share the news stories with your followers.

In that way you can subscribe to people you think is sharing good news.

http://crowdnews.eu/ is an alternative news site
which is also try to break free of the mob mentality.

But the way crowdnews try to do it is very different from NewsTrust.

On Crowdnews you subscribe to the all reviewers you like, and every user can act as a reviewer.

I that way you can subscribe to those reviews which you think provide quality stuff.

Crowdnews is openid enabled and in early beta.