Monthly Archives: March 2008

Around the web – March 29, 2008

By Deepak Singh | Published: March 30, 2008
Another weekly roundup. Spent a good chunk of the week in airplanes and airports, so a little leaner than usual Linkfest Microformats university The Tetherless World Constellation Friendfeed grid ConceptNet NLP toolkit Stories on maps (via O’Reilly Radar) Dan Roam’s Back of the Napkin – Everything indicates that this is a must have The Human Network Multimedia Cluster computing for the classroom (you don’t [...]
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What if?

By Deepak Singh | Published: March 28, 2008
Source: WikipediaWhat if the result of every docking result was published online, with associated metadata link to protocol, scoring function/docking function, etc)? What if we could search across this entire space to try and come up with some conclusions? What if every docking result was an addressable resource? Just the kinds of questions we need [...]
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We were a little ahead of our time but we didn’t know

By Deepak Singh | Published: March 27, 2008
Source: WikipediaMy first job was at a startup, a little structural bioinformatics company, that no longer exists. At the time, SaaS was not exactly a common model for companies to deliver content to their customers, but when I think about it, we were ideally positioned to do that. The company was developed on top of [...]
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EC2 makes some important changes

By Deepak Singh | Published: March 27, 2008
From an email I received earlier today about two new pieces of functionality for Amazon’s EC2 service Elastic IP Addresses are static IP addresses designed for dynamic cloud computing, and now make it easy to host web sites, web services and other online applications in Amazon EC2. Elastic IP addresses are associated with your AWS account, [...]
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Your personal health: Crowdsourcing healthcare – Pitfalls and possibilities

By Deepak Singh | Published: March 25, 2008
Thomas Goetz writes a wonderful article in the NY Times about Practicing Patients, where he talks about PatientsLikeMe. Like Trusera and to a lesser extent iMedix, PatientsLikeMe allows people to connect with other people, learn from their experiences and make informed decisions about their health. I think by now all of us Google [...]
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