Quick links April 26

Comparison of Scopus, GS, PubMed, WoS; The Economics of Open Access Publishing; Scientists and Web 2.0 - Expression Patterns

NEJM launches Facebook applications

Another example of disseminating information in today's world

Now it's Facebook's turn to open up

It appears that Facebook will let developers to build services on top of its platform

"The announcement, expected Monday, means developers can build services that access the photos, videos, notes and comments users upload to Facebook, with users' permission. That's a big change for the social-networking site, which has exercised tight control over the look and feel of its service and how developers can interact with it." WSJ

What's your opening up strategy?

Photo Credit: Open on Flickr by Mag3737

Few quick links

Looking at News Content APIs; Opening up is key for distribution of content; personalizing recommendation, new head for Yahoo Application Group, and the need for author or reseacher identifier

Elsevier Grand Challenge was grand

Congratulations to all the four finalists who were all "winners" in this exciting initiative. The winner of the first prize was Reflect, the second place prize goes to CORAAL.
Two quick notes: 1) When you open up, scientific community will create unique and creative solutions 2) and scientists/researchers/application builders will start collaborating to hook/integrate their applications and build on top of each other services.

World Bank releases Open APIs

and invites community to creats mashups and applications

"The World Bank has been collecting massive amounts of data, for the past 50+ years, and now possesses one of the richest repositories of information about economic development in the world. World Bank Open API is an initiative of the World Bank that opens the wealth of the World Bank's global economic data to the outside world, in a standard, easily accessible way. Open API allows third parties to develop mash-ups and applications with the World Bank data and easily create different kinds of interesting visualizations and insightful reports." via world bank

Once in every 28 year

sun rise spring-2
Originally uploaded by fairy810621

Who knows what will happen today for Birkat Hachamah, but this was this situation in 1897 in my neighborhood

Obama and hiding the real politics of Turkey

It would be very interesting to really know why Michelle Obama missed the opportunity to visit Turkey.

Who knows if she was with President Obama what kind of pictures we would have seen coming from Turkey

The picture on the left is from a gala reception in Istanbul in honor of Obama where Turkish Prime Minister and President took a photo opportunity with ladies who were playing at the reception. .


Here is Turkish President with his wife



















Here is the Turkish Prime Minister with his wife














This picture shows 86 years ago Ataturk with his wife

Recommendation with textual auras

Sun's Aura Project released The Music Explaura. The beta project is using Last.fm, Spotify, Wikipedia, Flickr, Youtube, Yahoo, Musicbrainz, Upcoming, The Echo Nest and Amazon's APIs . The system also takes a different approach to recommendation: "AURA system computes the similarity between artists by computing the similarity between their textual auras." Via Stephen Green

Remixing in science

Here is how remixing can be "fun" in science. Another innovative thinking by Jean Claude Bradley and Andrew Lang










note: Image updated

Remixing and Creativity (and APIs)

Ofir Kutiel gives a good example of how one can create something original by remixing "content"

Yahoo takes personalization in search to a new level

IdeologicalSearch is another good example why Yahoo Search team rocks.

Creativity and aprilfool

The key in the previous post was the creative thinking of the Guardian team. Here is some additional aprilfool stuff.