Personalization done right and what's with the apps?

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

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt leverages the crowd for product development

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

Wisconsin and your boss

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

SciVerse

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

Information Overload is not new

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

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

Elsevier Grand Challenge Rocks

A full day of creativity from scientists all over the globe showing us the amazing applications that they can develop to "accelerate science" once the content is "opened up".

Times Widgets

While the company is struggling financially, it's good to see that the tech and product team are not living in a "bunker" mentality

Penguin's iphone Application

Penguin's exciting moves.

A real "workflow" solution: BrainNavigator

BrainNavigator is a new product that we are unveiling at SfN. This was developed in partnership with the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Elsevier Labs and Elsevier Book Publishing division have done a great work on this.

As my colleague Johannes Menzel states "BrainNavigator will change the way Neuroscience research is conducted".

In STM online publishing the buzz has been around "workflow". If you really want to see a workflow solution, you need to check this product out. BrainNavigator is one of the best examples of the workflow solution for researchers.

Future lies in Application Platforms

Steve Balmer on application store concept:

"I actually will agree that there's some good work, particularly at Facebook and also with the iPhone, where both of those companies have made it easier for developers to distribute their applications,"

"They've made it easier to kind of get exposure for your applications,There's not much money being made, but the general concept of giving developers a way not only to get their code distributed, but to really get visibility for the code, is a good idea." cnet

A new Application MarketPlace brought by LinkedIn

Smart move by LinkedIn by opening up to outside applications in their new Application Marketplace