Around the web – April 19, 2008

Linkfest

• I am sure there is something profound to be said about writing a gazillion books algorithmically, but it mostly escapes me
• Michael Barton riffs on Git and Github (and yes I have an account)
• Cascading is a large dataset build tool and a processing API for Hadoop
• Sun Microsystems has a Platform as a Service? Check out Project Caroline
• MetaBase – the place where life science databases go meta
• Papyrus, a student oriented feed reader

Multimedia

• Hadoop Summit – Tons of great material
• Social Graph Foo Camp videos – See previous
• Word for scientific publishing

Blogspotting

• Toby Segaran’s blog
• Venture Hacks – A long time favorite

Events

• Barcamb2
• 7th International BIOKKD 2008

Self Assembly

Well, you’ve already heard about my appearance on Jon Udell’s podcast. Probably one of the highlights of recent times.

I’m still recording the bbgm daily on a nearly daily basis. We’ve also got a thriving bio community these days on Twitter and Friendfeed