Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Listen to scientists

Open Data Protocol

Another initiative from Microsoft for research community Web N-Gram

Success stories for OpenCalais, British Library is among the sites using OpenCalais

Scientist's workflow in today's STM environment:

"One would think that in today's information age, scientists can easily keep up with new discoveries. However, these discoveries are buried in 24,000 journals most of which cannot be accessed by the individual scientist, because his/her institution does not subscribe to them. Thus, in order to keep current, here's what I have to do:

1. Pick ten, fifteen or so journals I have access to and which have a reasonable chance of publishing something important in my field and read their tables of contents religiously
2. Go through stored PubMed keyword searches (even though PubMed is ~4 weeks behind publication date)
3. Read F1000 alerts
4. Subscribe to 3-4 mailinglists on which some helpful person posts press-releases in close enough fields
5. Screen citeUlike recommendations and FriendFeed subscriptions for interesting papers
6. Subscribe to science news wires
7. Listen to science podcasts"Via bjorern brembs

Saturday, April 24, 2010

You got a have API and Developer buttons

The question is when to start watching them

Get your phone number on the cloud with OnSip

A Turkish-Jewish-Muslim Tale of a sephardic family

Scientists and researchers are looking for developers or API buttons in scientific online products

Microsoft's FacetLens

Monday, April 19, 2010

Volcanic Ash continues

Finally my colleagues got on the planes tonight going back to Europe.

English learning made easy in China through Microsoft Research's EngKoo

NIH subscribes to OpenHelix

Fun project from ProQuest, is my thesis hot or not

Friday, April 16, 2010

My Data, My Way

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Applications Challenge

Back in Dayton visiting our development team, talking APIs and Apps; some interesting numbers on the value of platform and opening up your APIs- Twitters gets 3 billion request a day through its APIs; CHI papers and DiffIE, I am trying to figure ipad out too; John Wilbanks is always thought provoking and makes you think how we can "accelerate science", linked data will play a key role to way we present inormation and develop apps.