Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category
Mendeley to CiteULike and other CiteULike enhancements
Compared to other services CiteULike is evolving very quickly. Several important developments over last few weeks, Article RecommendationsCiteULike now offers a recommendation service. If you have at least 20 articles in your library then you will receive a list of [...]
Social Media in Science: There are Innovators and Then There are Laggards
I know it’s really frustrating to be a promoter or founder of a social media web site that want to engage the scientists. The whole idea of socializing the scientists using these website is not coming well and unfortunately scientists [...]
Subscription flow: The future is distributed real time
A bunch of Google engineers have developed this very innovative idea of PubSubHubbub protocol which makes RSS and ATOM items delivery in your reader more real-time like FriendFeed or Twitter. So what’s a big deal with this new real time [...]
Making the Web Work for Science
A panel discussion on bringing digital tools to the world of science with panelists Stephen Friend, Jimmy Wales and John Wilbanks moderated by Tim O’Reilly.
Collaborative scientific writing and sharing using freely available tools
Collaborative writing of scientific articles requires considerable amount of coordination and a strong synchronization among authors. Online tools such as Wikis and Google Docs have facilitated the real time editing and reviewing of a text document by multiple individuals. These [...]
Next Generation Scientific Articles: Reflections on a changing landscape
Michael Nielsen wrote a very interesting argument, Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted? In this article Michael suggested that in coming ten to twenty years, scientific publishers will be technology driven companies and traditional publishing houses will find more [...]
