The next (Google) Wave of scientific collaboration

Google Wave can create a beautiful sea full of interconnected waves if Google can manage to "replace email" and change the "user behavior; potentially this may have a big impact the way we communicate and collaborate.
In terms of scientific collaboration and authoring tools (collaborative authoring) /peer review process this can have very interesting and useful applications. GW comes with open APIs too. As STM publishers we need change to get in this new sea of waves and be in the same wavelength with our users who will adapt this new wave of communication.

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Subscription 2 P

“We absolutely never imagine subscriptions. Unless you’re selling porn, and especially “very weird porn”, you shouldn’t sell subscriptions.” Arianna Huffington, via Geek & Poker

No 5 Year plans at Google

Google CEO Eric Schmidt: “Google is an unusual because it’s really organized from the bottom up. … It often feels at Google people are pretty much doing what think best and they tolerate having us around. … We don’t really have a five-year plan. … We really focus on what’s new, what’s exciting and how can you win quickly with your new idea." via Financial Geek

Spreadsheets and innovations

"Strategy isn't about spreadsheets - and certainly not about short-run numbers. It's about understanding how rivalry and advantage in industries and markets are changing. The Apps store is important because it is letting Apple redefine the balance of power in the mobile value chain. Because Apple controls the supply of new services, it will enjoy greater and greater bargaining power vis a vis (more and more commoditized) mobile networks - likely expanding Apple's margins." via Umair Haque

Better search options (finally) form Google and RDFa

Google introduced new refinement options today that will improve how user gets additional insights from the search results and moving away presenting "dumb" search results. If they move these refinement to Google Scholar it would be great for research community. Also their adoption of microformats and RDFa is an excellent move to provide rich snippets , btw Yahoo has similar options too where we tested this with Ben Adida and Zepheira team last year. Let's see which STM publishing company will leverage the value of this (RDFa) first.

Quick Links May 11 2009

Congratulations to Anthony Williams/ChemSpider being acquired by RSC; Endeca and Mashery are part of Guardian Open platfom where application developers are mashing up Guardian content with other APIs; Jeff Bezos and Kindle are today's Gutenberg; Turkey is leading in time spent eating per day ( I bet all the coffees and teas that we drink are included in the 160minutes plus)

Applications for open access

New Open Access Tracking Project launched by Peter Suber, with mashup opportunities using Yahoo Pipes

Linked Data and Tim Berners Lee

The need for Linked Data in Government.. What about in scientific publishing world? Except Talis who is working or even thinking on this?