Monthly Archives: May 2008

A global informatics collaboratory

By Deepak Singh | Published: May 30, 2008
Thinking about BioBarCamp, listening to Chris Messina talking about DiSo, Barcamp and open projects in general and all consumed by the cloud and web services. Over the past year, we’ve built a fairly cool group of bio and data geeks distributed all over the world. We have different skills, different backgrounds and different [...]
Posted in Informatics, Life Science, Social Networking, Software & Internet | 6 Comments

Programming and science education

By Deepak Singh | Published: May 29, 2008
From a discussion on /. There is even a bizarre camp that actually acknowledges the need for computer programming, but turns my ‘any language’ argument on its head to advocate the students do ’scientific programming’ using Excel because it is ‘easy,’ ubiquitous, and students are familiar with it. They argue Excel is ’surprisingly powerful’ with flow [...]
Posted in Education, Science, Software & Internet | 5 Comments

Calais gets an upgrade

By Deepak Singh | Published: May 29, 2008
I really like services like Calais and Zemanta. They are both poster children for linked data and entity extraction. Anyway, just got an email from the folks at Calais, highlighting several improvements in the service. Hi from Calais. We’re writing to tell you about some new and exciting developments at the Calais Initiative. Working from [...]
Posted in Semantic Web, Software & Internet | 1 Comment

The web as platform: WikiProteins

By Deepak Singh | Published: May 28, 2008
WikiProteins is all over the web, including BoingBoing and Ars Technica (and of course all over my FriendFeed). This is the first project by WikiProfessional, essentially a Wikipedia for specific content (not unlike the idea of Wikipedia focussing on scientific topics at a high level and pointing to other sites for more technical, domain-specific [...]
Posted in Life Science, Semantic Web, Software & Internet, Web as platform | 4 Comments

Ogoglio Project: Open virtual collaborative

By Deepak Singh | Published: May 27, 2008
Uber-geek alert!!! I believe the following was a tweet by Trevor Smith, whom I met at Startup Weekend last year this year and recall as one sharp cookie (that he has spent time at PARC does not come as a surprise once you spend some time with him) Imagine a city the size and detail of Liberty [...]
Posted in Futurist, Geek, Open Source, Software & Internet | 7 Comments

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