Disclaimer: I applied for a job at Google and didn’t get it, after going through what seemed like the largest number of interviews possible. I don’t agree with their decision.
I’ve been dallying around with the Google Chart API for a while now, and think it’s a great tool to incorporate analytical data into websites, as the current state of mainstream data visualization is lacking. I just noticed that you can do LaTeX code quickly and easily, like the following:
It says you need to know TeX, but it looks like they are actually using LaTeX. What we really need now, however, is an online LaTeX editor, something akin to Google Docs for the scientific world (although there are still too many of you biology and chemistry folks that still use Microsoft Word). This is the project I wanted to work on under Google’s support, and I know it would have made them billions of dollars. I guess I’ll have to go it alone, along with the other reader of this blog!
Now I can start doing what I have wanted to for a while – talk about teaching mathematics on this blog.