Datasift and Twitter have entered into a deal for your tweets. Datasift bargained for the whole fire hose of data. If you tweet and it’s public, they’re recording it. Big data? That’s what @nik calls what they store at Datasift. So what can Datasift do with all this data? Just about anything. Mentioned in the…
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Mashable has long gathered Easter Eggs. This time they’ve pulled up some fun ones from the new WolframAlpha search (research) engine. But Stephen Wolfram and his team didn’t stop there, and they certainly didn’t lack a sense of humor when they built their Mathematica-based engine. Slowly but surely, people have been finding some interesting quirks…
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