What's up with wolfram alpha?

Interesting little post about wolfram alpha and plans for the future:

But Alpha may yet confound the sceptics. Last month, Wolfram released an application programming interface, or API, that allows anybody to build software or websites that use Alpha's abilities. "Alpha is a technology platform that allows one to inject computable knowledge into any application or computer system," says Wolfram.

and it's partnering with bing... more here.