Enhancing web experience using web services

Open up with Web APIs and let others build creative applications: Mozilla's Ubiquity is a good example of this

Lessons from Amazon

If you can acquire why try to build it? Could not they build a social networking site for book lovers? Yes, but they rightfully and logically choose to buy Shelfari.

Shelfari: Book reviews on your book blog

ABSOLUT Alon

The gang (Ilan and Tamar) is back from London and we enjoyed a nice August evening in NYC while observing a New York moment:sun-bathing continues when the fire department is on top on the neighbour's roof.

RSS Week in Review

While developing products people are after simplicity but is simplicity overrated?

JOVE reaches a milestone by being indexed by PUBMED and MedLine. Congratulations to JOVE team and our own Tyge Burgess for creating short video abstracts in YouTube for Journal of Number Theory.

Opening-up is good for science and product development. Here is how friendfeed science community is responding Connotea's call of figuring out a freemium service and how Yahoo Search is integrated in iphone . Searching images made easy by Yale Image Finder

Anthony Williams who was with ACD/Labs and we did some work together for ChemVillage, continues improving his ChemSpider platform.

Nature publishing launches another experiment by attaching a wiki to a journal article and Max Max Planck Society covers publication fees for PLoS journals.

American Chemical Society gets into Social Networking

As ACS gets into social networking now we need to figure out data portability issue via Richard Ackerman

Today's links

If you are figuring out the collaboration space for scientist; Parallax brings something refreshing into search using freebase; and give credit where the credit is due: Thomson Reuters opening up with forums

Freebase Parallax: A new way to browse and explore data from David Huynh on Vimeo.s

Oil & Gas Industry getting into Semantic Web

"The Oil & Gas (O&G) industry produces a staggering amount of new data every day from a variety of activities such as drilling, exploration and production, reservoir management, major capital projects, facility and downstream operations. The problem of information explosion and overload presents an ever increasing challenge in finding and analyzing information quickly and precisely in order to get the most value for the business. This problem is not unique to the O&G industry; much the same can be said, for example, about the Health Care and Life Science (HCLS) industry, which has embraced Semantic Web technology in order to unite many forms of biological and medical information across diverse industries and institutions through the encoding of meaning into the data and their interpretations. The fundamental question is how Semantic Web technologies might play a similar role in the further development of energy resources."

via W3C

Evri connects the information and enables better discoverability

A very good attempt (and so far the easiest) by Evri to bring "information to life"

Middle East Peace and Marketing New York Style

Everyday when I walk home from Astor Place I see this sign and I smile......

Microsoft focus in tools and services for academics

Tony Hey, VP for the External Research Division within Microsoft Research explains to John Udell the agenda and focus of his division:

Four focus areas:
health and wellness
E3 earth/energy/environment
computer science
education and scholarly communication

" In addition we have what we call ARTS: Advanced Research Tools and Services. There we're trying to develop tools and services that academics and computer scientists will find valuable."