Monthly Archives: December 2008

Science Commons explained in 120 seconds: video

This from Science Commons and BoingBoing… Making the Web Work for Science Science Commons designs strategies and tools for faster, more efficient web-enabled scientific research. We identify unnecessary barriers to research, craft policy guidelines and legal agreements to lower those … Continue reading Continue reading

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Top 10 Underhyped Webapps

This from LifeHacker… Even in this golden age of Big Internet Companies Acquiring Everything In Sight, there are still a few independent, small webapps out there that don’t get the attention they should for their useful functionality. Every once in … Continue reading Continue reading

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Amazon Launches Public Data Sets To Ease Research

Amazon released its previously announced Public Data Sets web service this evening. The project encourages developers, researchers, universities and businesses to upload large (non-confidential) data sets to Amazon – things like census data, genomes, etc. – and then let others … Continue reading Continue reading

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Adobe Builds Web Time Machine Called Zoetrope

This in from Gizmodo This looks like a new killer app. Adobe researchers have constructed a time machine that lets you view any web page over time, scrolling to see changes in data. But the Zoetrope software that lets you … Continue reading Continue reading

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Malcolm Gladwell on how to spot potential star teachers

This from BoingBoing… Malcolm Gladwell has a good piece in the current New Yorker about how hard it is to figure out what makes great teachers great. Read the blog post Read Malcolm Gladwell’s article Continue reading

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