Yahoo [re]Search Pad

Yahoo Search team takes another great step to improve, search, research and collaboration. Search Pad is currently in beta

Yahoo Boss and better search service for academic libraries

An opportunity for academic libraries to leverage Yahoo Boss. Meanwhile Microsoft moves along in their effort for "free tools and services to support the Scholarly Communications lifecycle"

RSS Week in Review

While developing products people are after simplicity but is simplicity overrated?

JOVE reaches a milestone by being indexed by PUBMED and MedLine. Congratulations to JOVE team and our own Tyge Burgess for creating short video abstracts in YouTube for Journal of Number Theory.

Opening-up is good for science and product development. Here is how friendfeed science community is responding Connotea's call of figuring out a freemium service and how Yahoo Search is integrated in iphone . Searching images made easy by Yale Image Finder

Anthony Williams who was with ACD/Labs and we did some work together for ChemVillage, continues improving his ChemSpider platform.

Nature publishing launches another experiment by attaching a wiki to a journal article and Max Max Planck Society covers publication fees for PLoS journals.

AFP new platform will include text mining and semantic search

Agence France Press will launch a new platform by end of 2008 using Temis, Mondeca and Antidot's technologies. Congrat to my friends at Temis getting this important deal. via EarthTimes

Microsoft acquires Powerset

After MedStory this time Microsoft acquires Powerset. Via Venture Beat
Microsoft is building the right combination, will SiloBreaker be next?

AP: It seems that this is not a done deal yet

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