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Economy is crashing, apps are smashing

2012-01-02T22:23:00.006-05:00

Just believe in the process....a brief summary of 2011

Knowledge Discovery Solutions & STM research products

2011-12-31T18:05:00.011-05:00

What a year, 100+ solutions "built by researchers for researchers" in an STM platform and what an effort in the last two months of our team and the developers creating these solutions.
Many thanks to everyone -students, librarians, developers, researchers, scientists- in participating in this new ecosystem and bringing your innovations and solutions.
Happy 2012.

Parking in 6th Street and Kim Jong Eun

2011-12-21T21:32:00.010-05:00

Just in case my wife took picture of this doubled parked van, so if it hits our car we know where to go

The first thing that Kim Jong Eun needs is a presidential haircut. Just stop by at Royal barber shop in East Village where all the barbers are from former Soviet Union

If you are interested in our new solutions that we've releasing continuously in Elsevier's applications marketplace check the apps gallery Thanks to all our developer community members!

Gary Hamel on Management: Management is the least efficient activity in your organization

2011-11-25T15:32:00.004-05:00

"A hierarchy of managers exacts a hefty tax on any organization. This levy comes in several forms. First, managers add overhead, and as an organization grows, the costs of management rise in both absolute and relative terms. A small organization may have one manager and 10 employees; one with 100,000 employees and the same 1:10 span of control will have 11,111 managers. That’s because an additional 1,111 managers will be needed to manage the managers. In addition, there will be hundreds of employees in management-related functions, such as finance, human resources, and planning. Their job is to keep the organization from collapsing under the weight of its own complexity. Assuming that each manager earns three times the average salary of a first-level employee, direct management costs would account for 33% of the payroll. Any way you cut it, management is expensive." Via HBR

Vision in co-creation solutions and future of STM research platforms

2011-11-01T08:23:00.018-05:00

Today we've reached another milestone in our SciVerse and Application Marketplace and Developer Network initiatives.

When we started these initiative a few years ago our goal was very clear: accelerate science and help researchers do research better. We needed to create better knowledge discovery solutions (KDS) for scientists and researchers. We aimed to do this by collaborating with research and librarian community. We needed to enrich our content. We needed to connect from literature to data in a more intelligent and contextual way. We needed to make our content more interactive, more discoverable and accessible. We needed to create domain specific research tools. We wanted our users to customize the tools that they want to use. We wanted to let researchers create custom solutions. We also knew that we could not develop all these solutions ourselves. We believe in non-invented here. We needed to connect, collaborate and co-create these tools with scientific and research community. We needed to provide a flexible platform and services for the scientists who told us that they wanted to use our content their way. We needed to change how scientific research solutions were created. We needed to help research community to build solutions that they want and they need.

Hence we've built an application framework -a platform- where now we can introduce a new feature Author Wordle app in just 8 hours. (Talk about agile development in STM market and "turning products into platforms".)
We've started reaching out and collaborating with researchers and scientific community by doing hacks and challenges at New Jersey Institute of Technology , Rensselaer/Tetherless Worls Health, University of Sydney, National University of Singapore, Dalhousie and Tsinghua Uiversity.
We've reached out to librarian community with AppsforLibrary to get their input on what kind of solutions they want to see in our SciVerse platform.
With AppsforScience we've asked developers community to build search and discovery solutions using our content and APIs.

We can't thank enough to all the individuals(students, developers, researchers, librarians, corporations) who participated to these events and brought their creativity in building solutions and developed apps that are being shared in SciVerse platform with the global research community. All these individuals are the"first settlers" of what is called a distruptive platform and embraced the vision that we set for future research platforms.

Today's announcement of AppsforScience winners is a great example of co-creation of these solutions with the developers community. Congratulations to Altmetric developed by Euan Adie, Refinder developed by Leo Sauermann , iHelp developed by Mourougane Arumugam, Keyword Optimizer developed by Scott Fortmann-Roe and ChemDetect, developed by Keming Labs.

Go and use these new apps and other apps that we have in our gallery. Send your appreciation to the developers. Send us and developers your feedback
Enjoy!

A dissertation about Kuzguncuk and my father

2011-10-26T21:31:00.003-05:00

An interesting dissertation by Amy Mills "Streets of Memory:
The Kuzguncuk Mahalle in Cultural Practice and Imagination

Today's Istanbul is like a cement city, but Kuzguncuk still is a gem. One of the gems of Kuzguncuk was Bakkal Marko. The picture of my father is probably from late 50th where he is sitting behind his lakerda stand.

What needs to be done in STM publishing

2011-09-22T07:52:00.005-05:00

Philip Bourne's presentation at OOSPA conference

Ten Simple Rules for Open Access Publishers

View more presentations from Philip Bourne

Another wake up call for STM publishers

2011-09-20T21:53:00.003-05:00

e-Reader Owners Buy More Books and Netflix separates DVD business as Qwikster.

Is it time for publishers to "separate" print from their online offering?

Scenarios: Google+ and VIVO

2011-08-10T22:04:00.003-05:00

If plenty of Universities follow Brown's example and use Google Apps for Education, and if Google + gets traction within scientific community, and if VIVO is successful it can be an interesting landscape for scientific collaboration and networking.
IMG_2686, a photo by nunojmachado on Flickr.

Watermelon birthday cake for Tamar

2011-08-08T18:42:00.002-05:00

Unfortunately I missed the fun here in NY while they are all having good time in Tel-Aviv, we'll do an encore in Urla soon.

Alon waiting for the bus in Tel-Aviv

2011-08-04T18:43:00.001-05:00

From Drop Box

Personalization done right and what's with the apps?

2011-08-03T12:29:00.008-05:00

Personalization is not easy. Worth watching how Yahoo Labs scientists are tackling this issue with news content.

And if you are interested to find out how we are doing in terms apps ecosystem in SciVerse and the new Elsevier's Applications and Developer Network initiative just check out all the new solutions that are available to SciVerse users in our applications gallery; you can see one example of our collaboration with scientific community in this case NCBI with the Genome Viewer app; we initiated community driven projects AppsforScience Challenge and AppsforLibrary Idea Challenge, hackathons at NJIT and Tetherless World Health and Life Sciences Hackathon and coming soon Singapore Code Jam.

Overall we are doing "jolie" good...

Here is the Genome Viewer app that was developed by our Content Innovation team and NCBI:

Genome viewer app elsevier application & developer network

View more presentations from Rafael Sidi

Here is a video put together by NJIT hack participants

Do we really need Starbucks in Buyukada

2011-07-24T13:30:00.000-05:00

This is a sad picture for Buyukada and to everyone who loves the island and grew up in this beatiful place.
Who knows may be they are selling Turkish coffee

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt leverages the crowd for product development

2011-05-20T06:43:00.003-05:00

It's good to see another publishing company taking this road and develop solutions suggested by the users

Washington's dream in Middle East

It's kind of true

May 1st Quick Links

2011-05-01T16:11:00.002-05:00

Lawrence Lessig on "the architecture of access to scientific access", copyright and remix at CERN http://bit.ly/k6jc0d

How Facebook Is Slowly Taking Over Your Website http://zite.to/l83SUK

Congrats to Ariadne for Wining $750,000 SBIR Grant for Development of Text Mining Software http://zite.to/jDuLkf

Do College Professors Use Facebook? http://zite.to/kK4aFR

Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Leaving the U.S. http://zite.to/iGLsar

Community is core for businesses http://on.news.me/gAjbcp via @jsteig

Alon with Lenin at Red Square

2011-03-30T07:11:00.000-05:00

Wisconsin and your boss

2011-03-02T21:35:00.005-05:00

Wisconsin and performance reviews, "Why your boss is wrong about you"

NFAIS 2011 annual meeting closes with John Blossom's great insights , unfortunately I missed the first two days of the meeting.

Launching another app in our Application Marketplace, Co-Author Network visualization at Scopus Author profile
Application Architecture

"Gameing" the indexing

SocialSci continues improving

#18DaysInEgypt another example (documentary film on Egypt) of crowd sourcing

Microsoft Academic Search

2011-02-07T22:33:00.001-05:00

can't wait to see when they go with a full launch.

Elsevier NJIT Hackathon

2011-02-06T21:09:00.004-05:00

Great work! Sleepless night for hackers and our team (Remko, Ryan and Ale). At the end some beautiful apps and great concepts, and good fun for science. SV Social was winning app. (which includes a young Turk and leverages ispeech's API) Many thanks to all the participants and our judges Richard Egan, Stanley Senesy, Ann Gabriel and specially Jim Robertson and Ben Slepp (NJIT ACM President), and our speakers Mike Taylor and Bastian Hofmann.

Elsevier's First Hackathon

2011-02-05T23:58:00.002-05:00

Glad to be part of another "first". Many thanks to NJIT in believing in the idea and being a great partner in this initiative, and all our guests Mike Taylor @miketaylr, Bastian Hofmann
@BastianHofmann.
Follow the event at @sciversedev and @njithack

Believe in the Apps, and set your API product vision

2010-12-14T23:03:00.005-05:00

The app that RPI TWRC team built for our application marketplace is featured at data.gov site.

That's collaboration

2010-12-13T08:20:00.004-05:00

Government+private sector+academia+researchers, that's how we'll improve scientific productivity.

Making a difference at all cost and enjoying it

2010-12-05T21:46:00.004-05:00

Skip me-too product thinking, try to shake the status quo i.e opening up, believe in it, fight for it, show it to the world and be damn proud of it.

Talking about Change

2010-12-01T22:09:00.001-05:00

Change is here: Elsevier's Applications Marketplace & Developers Network

2010-11-13T13:42:00.016-05:00

Finally all the API, opening up, open up applications, mashups, applicationmarketplace, widgets tags that you have been seen in the past few years came alive early Sunday morning, go check-it out

This is a new publishing ecosystem and a new innovation playground for the whole developer community -researchers, librarians, scientists, developers, start-ups- go start coding, collaborating, innovating to create apps that will help the scientific and research community.

Exciting and appy times

A Change that we believe in

2010-11-06T13:22:00.011-05:00

It's been very hectic few months for the SciVerse team - the launch of the first phase and then preparing for the second phase which will change the way online products are (co-)developed in STM information market and also the way we define a "product". At the release, the Applications Marketplace and Developers Network will be in Beta too. The team has put in a tremendous effort for months -a lot of sleepless night, functional requirements, change requests, plenty of coffees, stress-; but this is a change that we all believe in, and we still have a long way to go but we are excited that we can see the light at the end of tunnel.

SciVerse

2010-09-01T17:34:00.002-05:00

This is just the beginning of a new journey....

Information Overload is not new

2010-08-23T16:02:00.003-05:00

That's what I have been stating in all SciVerse presentations too. Let's not forget Seneca's points on "trusted knowledge networks" too.

TextDigger goes to FederatedMedia

SciVerse, setting up the stage for a new direction

2010-08-15T15:48:00.015-05:00

Back from vacation

Getting closer in bringing aggregation, interoperability between ScienceDirect and Scopus and creating an "open platform" to develop apps. This is just the beginning of a new direction..

Believe in APIs when you are setting your product strategy

Kind of you cite me, I'll cite you

Challanges at universities

Now that's a clever idea, going back to Ottoman times

Great to see this kind of innovation programs from Harvard Library

That's it folks, see you in 2014

2010-07-11T12:12:00.005-05:00

Spain wins the cup.

photo via El Pais

In Orange land

2010-07-06T17:15:00.003-05:00

while the Orange Men are celebrating their 3-2 win over Uruguay, I am missingAlon's birthday

Apps for Science

2010-06-28T18:36:00.001-05:00

If we have Apps for Democracy soon we will have Apps for Science and a Science Apps Bazaar

"Made things happen with science"

2010-06-25T07:36:00.003-05:00

This is one of the reasons why opening APIs is good for Science, and we'll be there helping developer community "made things happen with science"

JISC opens up for innovation

Paying for content

2010-06-10T19:57:00.001-05:00

Searching academic papers

2010-06-08T16:42:00.003-05:00

Some very nice development from Microsoft Academic Search team

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Publishing Workflows

2010-05-28T16:07:00.003-05:00

"I want publishers to publish my workflows" Philip Bourne -What Do I Want from the Publisher of the Future?

Open Platform, Open Source, Open Innovation

2010-05-25T10:21:00.006-05:00

That's what I have been pitching in the last few years: turn STM publishers into platform providers.

From Publisher To Platform: How The Guardian Used Content, Search, and Open Source To Build a Powerful New Business Model

TransInsight team makes ordering of antibodies easier while searching PubMed.

Guardian MicroApp Platform

2010-05-22T16:53:00.003-05:00

Guardian now lets 3rd party apps in Guardian's site

David Fishman puts nicely "Opening up APIs to turn content into new and different applications is just what Apple does with hundreds of thousands of iPhone/iPad/iPod apps. Content, again, is king." Lucid Imaginations

ANKOS

2010-05-17T20:06:00.003-05:00

Last week I participated to ANKOS 10th Annual Meeting. The event was hosted by Ayhan Kaygusuz (ITU) and ANKOS board and Gultekin Gurdal did a terrific job with the meeting.
One of the key take aways for me was the high energy level of the young Turkish librarians and their in depth knowledge of their customers and information industry.

Listen to scientists

2010-04-28T20:31:00.003-05:00

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

You got a have API and Developer buttons

2010-04-24T09:22:00.003-05:00

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

Volcanic Ash continues

2010-04-19T15:01:00.003-05:00

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

My Data, My Way

2010-04-16T08:15:00.003-05:00

Applications Challenge

2010-04-14T00:23:00.003-05:00

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.

Rice or not Rice that 's the question

2010-03-29T12:55:00.003-05:00

This was the main conversation topic last week in preparing for Passover. At the end Ottoman Empire convinced the Babylonians.
"No rice" tradition continues for Sidi's.

Datasets, Creativity and services for $5

2010-03-04T23:41:00.004-05:00

Bringing datasets (PANGAEA) to discovery process in ScienceDirect.

Creativity with OK Go

Designing for mobile

Sell and buy anything for $5

Apps for the Army

2010-03-02T23:36:00.002-05:00

US army gets it

Turning content into an ecosystem for innovation

2010-03-01T21:50:00.003-05:00

Twitter lets access to the "firehouse"

End of 02-2010

2010-02-26T13:50:00.010-05:00

Gates foundation is funding ViewChange (check some nice music ) which is leveraging linked data and Freebase, Zemanta, OpenCalais, and other open APIs.

Bueda turns your tags into RDF

Reflect gets into SecondLlife

Give to small companies a chance

From Abstracting & Indexing to Tweeting & Indexing?

No one knows where Turkey is heading?

"Potential energy" in financial markets.

Parenting and Linked Data

2010-02-22T11:11:00.005-05:00

Watching the kids in Sims and reminding that there is also a "real" room

Research Funding Explorer by Talis which has one of the most forward thinking product and technology teams that you can find in STM market.

GSK understands that Opening up is good in overall.

Open Data, Scalable Publishing

2010-02-20T14:39:00.004-05:00

Panton Principles for Open Data authored by Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge, Cameron Neylon, STFC, Rufus Pollock, Open Knowledge Foundation and John Wilbanks, Science Commons

NSF visualization challenge

A different perspective on scalable publishing

Another milestone for ScienceDirect and Elsevier

2010-02-03T00:07:00.004-05:00

over 10 million articles!

Open Access model by Lady Gaga

2010-02-02T13:05:00.005-05:00

"She is a product of a new kind of recording contract which goes beyond just selling records to encompass everything from touring, merchandise–even her make-up deal."

I suppose those are her apps on top of content

kind of love and hate relationship

2010-02-01T17:08:00.003-05:00

CERN believes in openness and reuse

2010-02-01T08:57:00.001-05:00

and makes their bibliographic book records to be freely downloaded by any third party.

Unlocking innovation

2010-01-21T03:13:00.003-05:00

UK government initiative in opening public data and letting community build apps

Preventing Terrorist Attack of December 25th

2010-01-14T21:44:00.001-05:00

December 25th terrorist attempt could have been prevented by an "intelligent system" or a system that was designed under "data find data" principles .

Tim Berners Lee and Open Data

2010-01-13T22:04:00.001-05:00

"Scientists’ possessive view toward data is changing, Berners-Lee said, as researchers begin to understand what bloggers have come to know — that if information is shared, it can draw together people with similar interests who can help advance common goals.

However, he enumerated several challenges before the opening of a global marketplace for data. For example, applications built on freely available data can make lots of money, but how can the system ensure that those who compile such data are compensated fairly?" http://bit.ly/63YP4Q

Open APIs, Search and Linked Data

2010-01-10T19:34:00.006-05:00

Once the APIs are available scientific community will develop creative apps like annotatr Kudos to Bosco Ho

How to improve search: It's in the meaning

From the desk of Lev Gonick CIO of Case Western University "What continues to be worrisome is our collective ability to remain genuinely relevant to the Internet society in all its complexities and contradictions."

Reading scientific paper

Export the tweets to excel using Searchtastic

There is a way for freemium model for LinkedData for scientific publishers too

Cloud Interoperability is an issue for Amazon, Google and IBM

What's happening at Informa?

Snow and Elsevier

2010-01-07T18:09:00.002-05:00

by Anthony Salvagno

Build your app now

2010-01-04T23:03:00.003-05:00

AppMkr makes life easier for publisher

2010-01-04T22:05:00.001-05:00

Against Transparency | The New Republic http://ping.fm/48BzV

Open Source is good for IRs

2009-12-28T21:12:00.004-05:00

The University of Rochester's open source IR platform looks neat!

"Open will win"

2009-12-21T23:21:00.003-05:00

Open from Google's perspective

Yahoo helping scientists in the Cloud

2009-12-09T19:03:00.002-05:00

Yahoo is donating supercomputer cluster for scientists through Open Cloud Consortium,

What's your API?

2009-12-04T14:57:00.002-05:00

Create new business opportunities and empower your users through "open APIs"

Mashing-up

2009-11-29T17:14:00.002-05:00

Via Drupal folks

Open and Semantic (on Sunday)

2009-11-22T14:27:00.004-05:00

We should all learn from Facebook's agility and their use of open source services

More facts from Factory Labs

Learning from open source

Nice App integration in the Times

2009-11-03T18:50:00.002-05:00

Wolfram Alpha and Australia Government Open Up

2009-10-18T21:26:00.006-05:00

Wolfram Alpha recently launched their WebService API. Currently they are charging for the use of APIs. It will be interesting to see how the developer community from universities will react to these fees. Wolfram Alpha team deserves credit providing APIs to their curated content in such a short period after the launch of
Wolfram Alpha.

Similar to the efforts in the US and UK, Australia government starts making government datasets publicly available.

It's all about "You"

2009-10-02T06:56:00.002-05:00

Google's Udi Manber on Search

"You also want to be faster, bigger, more robust. But that’s not the main measure. The main measure is whether we help our users and give people what they need. And that now has to do with people, not necessarily some mathematical measurements. You really have to understand and kind of feel it all the time."

"There are other cases where the results are in the snippet. You don’t have to click on it. It was the perfect result. So you have to be careful. Sometimes when you improve search, you actually get less clicks. And that’s fine."

Applications will be "new content"

2009-09-15T20:09:00.003-05:00

Good initiative by the US General Services Administration

Open is always better than close, dataliberation

Once you provide the APIs, users will build interesting applications

A simple rule

2009-08-31T22:31:00.009-05:00

Back from vacation and few of the stuff that is going
around work reminds me of a scholar who said "What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow: this is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn"

Challenges and "mismeasurements" in scientific publishing and ideas on how to reinvent academic publishing

Yahoo SearchMonkey continues to improve, these guys know what they are doing

Share your web trails with MIT's eyebrowse

KISTI team continues their experiment with OntoFrame

Bringing citability to the government

Powering the deck with beer

2009-08-02T22:25:00.002-05:00

Preparing (power point) decks,

The big shift sounds very familiar

Need open data (with proper privacy terms) to enable better discovery

Great summary of bibliographic management solutions by Martin Fenner

Two of the Google alternatives were purchased by Microsoft , is SiloBreaker next?

Totally confused on our priorities, David Winer links this to "Harvard Outrage" (no punt intended to my harvard colleagues). Growing up in Turkey one quick advise "don't mess with a cop or soldier"

John always makes you think

Originally uploaded by silkegb

Research community developing kick-ass applications

2009-08-01T14:11:00.009-05:00

bibapp is a great "collaboration" example by two universities' "researchers" in developing an useful "application" for the "research community".
BibApp is a simple and good implementation of many concepts that are being discussed probably within some STM product development teams. Here is a "small team" using "open source software", and voila....

Nice "embedding" from ChemSpider

2009-08-01T08:09:00.001-05:00

Open Up

2009-07-31T16:33:00.003-05:00

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

A nice start by BenchFly for protocols and products

2009-07-29T22:50:00.004-05:00

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

Open Science, Yahoo's new homepage

2009-07-28T21:46:00.004-05:00

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"

2009-07-27T21:02:00.003-05:00

"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

2009-07-25T20:19:00.009-05:00

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"

2009-07-23T06:35:00.001-05:00

Smart content & solution for life science researchers in ScienceDirect via 95014

2009-06-11T19:02:00.012-05:00

Making your content more discoverable

2009-06-11T18:51:00.003-05:00

New CommonTag initiative is led by AdaptiveBlue, DERI (NUI Galway), Faviki, Freebase, Yahoo!, Zemanta, and Zigtag

What's your (STM) openness strategy?

2009-06-10T12:59:00.002-05:00

Here is Yahoo's

The Yahoo! Openness Strategy Team is building the next generation of open platforms and integrating them into every part of Yahoo!. From platforms that add a social element to every aspect of Yahoo!, to an applications platform and developer-focused offerings, the YOS team is tasked with transforming the way Yahoo! works. In building out all the components of YOS, the team is focused on implementing distributed systems that are highly scalable and performant so they can reliably serve hundreds of millions of Yahoo! users and developers every day. Via Yahoo

UK government goes to Tim Berners Lee to help them in their initiative to open up the government data.

Researcher Waveflow

2009-06-08T20:23:00.004-05:00

Cameron Neylon provides concrete examples how STM publishers can get into the Google Wave. Cameron will be talking to a group of product managers and publishing colleagues next week in Amsterdam.

Making the Waves

2009-06-01T19:17:00.004-05:00

Some wave related links

"As traditional content and software publishers continue to try to wrestle the Web into one proprietary box after another to suit their established business models, it's important to remember that the world is aching to have cost-effective productivity improvements that will help to boost the global economy. Wave is a good example of a content technology that has the potential to sweep aside many drags on Web and enterprise productivity in ways that can help to create and to contextualize content in more valuable ways than ever before." John Blossom

"As I understand it each wave, and indeed each part of a wave, can be a URL endpoint; an object on the semantic web. If they aren’t already it will be easy to make them that. As much as anything it is the web native collaborative authoring tool that will make embedding and pass by reference the default approach rather than cut and past that will make the difference. Google don’t necessarily do semantic web but they do links and they do embedding, and they’ve provided a framework that should make it easy to add meaning to the links. Google just blew the door off the ELN market, and they probably didn’t even notice." Cameron Neylon

And yes we will see extension on the wave soon

"Having had a look at the editing capabilities of Google Wave, it is clear that one of the first things we as scientists should do is to add collaborative reference management and figure/table numbering to the rich text editing capabilities. Martin Fenner lists this feature on his blog post and we're discussing it at FriendFeed. Of course, collaborative editing doesn't stop at papers: grants, lab-wikis, institute websites, manuals, protocols, fridge content, who's up for journal club?, which machine is currently broken/working, where is item X?, who's going to the conference? Which posters are you going to look at?.... the list goes on and on! Google Wave has solutions for all of these processes - today." Bjoern Brembs

" I hope that by that time it will also have the first extensions designed specifically for scientists, e.g. for

references with embedded metadata and discussions about these references
molecular structures and other scientific data types
scientific manuscripts in progress (Google Wave has nice tools for collaborative document editing)
lab notebooks (again because of the wiki-like editing features)" Martin Frenner

As Victor from Mendeley indicates very soon we will see wave extension that will help scientists in their workflow.

OCLC Mashathon

2009-06-01T12:13:00.004-05:00

OCLC brings library developer community together to create new tools on top of OCLC APIs

"This is such a great way to bring the library development community together," explained Roy Tennant, one of the founders of the OCLC Developer Network. "We are so pleased with the creativity of the implementations and expect the tools created these two days to continue delivering long-term value for libraries and library users around the world." Via OCLC

The above figure created by Tim McCormick in "A Web Services Taxonomy: not all about the data" should make us think of what we can do to move our products to the "high value transactional" quadrant. Opening up and creativity from the development community will be key elements of developing these high value transactional applications.

The next (Google) Wave of scientific collaboration

2009-05-31T18:29:00.009-05:00

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.

Photo by brewbooks

Subscription 2 P

2009-05-29T17:19:00.004-05:00

“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

2009-05-21T17:43:00.001-05:00

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

2009-05-14T20:51:00.002-05:00

"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

2009-05-12T19:52:00.004-05:00

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

2009-05-11T16:51:00.003-05:00

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

2009-05-05T23:47:00.003-05:00

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

Linked Data and Tim Berners Lee

2009-05-03T23:11:00.004-05:00

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

Quick links April 26

2009-04-27T20:44:00.006-05:00

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

NEJM launches Facebook applications

2009-04-26T20:31:00.002-05:00

Another example of disseminating information in today's world

Now it's Facebook's turn to open up

2009-04-26T19:46:00.006-05:00

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

2009-04-25T19:47:00.005-05:00

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