Open Up

My friends at SiloBreaker let their widget disseminate their "solution"

A nice start by BenchFly for protocols and products

How to keep a clean waterbath Video Protocol - Video Protocol - BenchFly.com

Open Science, Yahoo's new homepage

Open Science and "releasing" scientific data

Opening is good for Intuit: open source community for intuit developers

This is how Yahoo is promoting it's new home page

Geek speak for what went into our new homepage @ Yahoo! Video

Improving spell check in search engines

"Data finds data"

"Organizations that are unable to switch to the “data finds data” paradigm will be less competitive and less effective"

A must read piece from Jeff Jonas and Lisa Sokol for any information specialist, product and technology people who are developing information products and architecture to support these.

Virtual shekels for peer-review

CiteMine brings market dynamics to peer-review, Ricky Robinson explains this system in his paper titled On the Design and Implementation of a Market Mechanism for Peer Review and Publishing

"Article of the Future" has been getting a lot of coverage including Marc Canter -who really showed us few tricks 3 years ago- as always you get mixed reviews, one of key comments that I noticed was the community is looking for a "radical change" The radical change may come from the scientific community when we "open-up" and provide APIs so that community can build applications/frameworks like sMash . More on sMash concept.

We also launched NextBio on ScienceDirect. Many thanks to all the colleagues from Elsevier and Nextbio who have worked on this and made it happened. This is just the start of our new journey to where we are going to take our platfoms....

"Obsess over customer"