Around the Web – April 12, 2008

A day late. Got tied up by the first sunny Saturday in a long time

Linkfest

• Viewfinder
• AlertThingy – A FriendFeed Air application. Not sure I like the look n feel
• theinfo.org. – A site for large data sets and the people who love them. From the mind of Aaron Swartz
• The Open Library project. One web page for every book
• Intridea. The company behind Scalr. I love companies like this. Need more in the Life Science space
• Want another way of accessing Twitter. Try out Gridjit

Multimedia

• Making sense of CO2 data. You don’t have to have Silverlight. There are links to other file formats at the bottom of the page.
• Sassy Science Podcast #6 – Hidden dimensions in the Universe (just subscribe to the series)
• What is music 2.0?
• The first FriendFeed scientific collaboration? Check out this post by Cameron on Bursty Science and openness
  

Blogspotting

• Bret Taylor’s blog. It’s on App Engine, has just a few posts, but has already become a hub for some interesting conversation

Events

• Rails Conf - Specifically Matt Wood’s talk on Genomes on Rails
• Seattle Conference on Scalability. I hope to be there
• The IIT-Bombay Golden Jubilee – One of my alma mater’s celebrates an anniversary
• Gnomedex 2008. Unfortunately, it looks like I won’t be able to make it this yea

Self Assembly

• I changed the permissions on the Wiki. Now you should be able to comment without signing up
• Playing around with my Amazon Affiliate widget. The new carousel widget looks interesting. You’ll find it on any individual post page with links to interesting books, gadgets, etc
• So far Disqus seems to be doing well. Perhaps it was coincidence that two posts ended up having a lot of debate right after I set up Disqus, but it is an interesting one. The FriendFeed integration helps

Also, strongly thinking about switching hosts to Slicehost. Not going to do this in a hurry. There is just too much going on. The Slicehost + Amazon Web Services combination has been excellent for Biocreencast. We (as in me and the better half) have some projects on tap, which might benefit from that combo as well, or we might go just serverless and go the 100% Amazon route.

Don’t forget my daily riffs at bbgm.tv

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