Monthly Archives: January 2008

The web as platform: Acesis Point-of-Care – Easy, adaptable and structured

By Deepak Singh | Published: January 31, 2008
DEMO is a conference I am always in two minds about. The entry fee for someone chosen to present is on the high side and I get this sense of elitism, but that’s purely hearsay since I’ve never been there. If a presentation at Demo drives business and revenue it’s a small price [...]
Posted in Audio/Video, Healthcare, Software & Internet, Web as platform | 1 Comment

Using data for better results

By Deepak Singh | Published: January 31, 2008
At E-Tech, a conference I would love to be at, Peter Norvig is giving a talk on how tons of data leads to smarter, better models. Reading the abstract for that talk got me thinking There is no Google in the world of life science. No organization with so much data available that they [...]
Posted in Computing, Informatics, Life Science, Software & Internet | 3 Comments

Amazon’s web services show the way

By Deepak Singh | Published: January 30, 2008
OK, I don’t get Amazon’s love for inane patents, but their web services engine, which I am an unabashed fan of is for real. Amazon’s web services bandwidth now accounts for more than half of traffic on all of Amazon’s properties, in fact the traffic on EC2 and S3 was more than all the [...]
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Social Graph Foo Camp

By Deepak Singh | Published: January 29, 2008
Darn it. I only just found out about about Social Graph Foo Camp, although given my schedule it’s probably a good thing. Another weekend away from home and I might have not been allowed back in. I learnt about SG Foo Camp via Phil Windley’s interview with Scott Kveton about OpenID. A number [...]
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A year in the virtual life

By Deepak Singh | Published: January 29, 2008
Joanna Scott shares experiences from Year 1 of Second Nature, Nature Publishing Group’s abode in Second Life, and my favorite spot in the metaverse. It’s a lovely read of the experiences one faces in virtual worlds. I hope the effort grows into the definitive portal for science in virtual worlds. It’s early days, and far [...]
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