Around the Web - May 10, 2008
May 10, 2008
Linkfest
- NASA workshop on massively parallel supercomputers
- Aviary - I am out of accounts, but this is sweet
- NY Times - Pursuing the next level of AI
- McKinsey surveys the new software landscape
- Yahoo Design Pattern library
- hackystat - “A framework for collection, analysis, visualization, interpretation, annotation, and dissemination of software development process and product data”
- From the NY Times’ brilliant OSS blog - dbslayer (github repository)
- Erlang vs. MPI
Multimedia & Presentations
- Andrew’s presentation from XTech
- Is it time to throw away your servers
- Abstractions for handling large datasets
Blogspotting
- Greg Linden - This one is from the archives and for all of you interested in computer science, personalized search etc
Self Assembly
Once again, life is very hectic, so not much to report. Follow me on Friendfeed, twitter or check out the Tumblelog, where I am have been putting up some cool stuff lately
Around the web - May 4, 2008
May 4, 2008
It’s been a while, so will jump right into it.
Linkfest
- chip-ruby
- SEQanswers.com - Discussion forum for next gen sequencing (was down when I was writing this)
- In perpetual pursuit of context
- Open Metabolomics Data
- EquityEdit is an interesting organization. They edit and translate biomedical manuscripts and the compensation funds small, innovating, global health organizations (with a focus on the developing world, e.g. Nyaya Health). Don’t know too much about them, but the financial model is definitely interesting.
- WIkiPatents
- Interview with Paul Graham
- Subversion & Git
- Stagerat - a site for live music fans
- Data stores and BI
Multimedia & Presentations
- Bio2RDF do SPARQL
- Nodalities becomes a magazine
- Twitlive.tv - Watch out for what Leo is up to
- The stackoverflow podcast. This is a must listen. Can’t wait to see what the site turns out to be
Blogspotting
- Hypebot - A music 2.0 blog
Events
- BioBarCamp or ScienceBarCamp, regardless, there is a strong chance that prior to SciFoo 2008 we will be hosting a gathering of science geeks in the Bay Area
Self Assembly
Not much really. Had fun at Bio-IT World, which is the perfect conference for me, a place where I can combine work with subjects (and hardware) that really get me excited. Someday, Bio-IT World will be a mix of the current Bio-IT, Web 2.0 Expo and Gnomedex; a gathering of minds and industry folk.
I do have my macbook pro now and wishing I hadn’t taken the bad Windows/Dell detour late last year.
Around the web - April 19, 2008
April 20, 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
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
Around the Web - April 12, 2008
April 13, 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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Around the web - April 5, 2008
April 5, 2008
Here are some links from around the web that I chanced upon this week
Linkfest
- Review Board for code reviews (via O’Reilly Radar)
- Anna rants about software for scientists on the JoVe blog
- IBM’s really serious about virtual worlds
- Scalr is really really cool. Read more on the AWS blog
- Rails is moving from SVN to Git
- Casio EX-F1 camera takes 60 photos a second
- Star P On-demand supercomputing for scientists and engineers (need to look into this more)
Multimedia
- Merb - an alternate web framework for Ruby
- Scoble interviews Ben Segal
- Matthew Shanahan from Teranode on the Semantic Web
Blogspotting
Events
- Freebase User Group Meeting on April 16th
- 2008 iGEM competition
Self Assembly
- After much flip-flopping I have given in and adopted Disqus as the commenting system. It breaks the WP commenting system, but that was just me being a control freak. With Friendfeed supporting Disqus, it does add some value there as well. No one was using the Viddler video anyway, one of the main reasons I had resisted. Here is the Disqus page for bbgm
- Going to Bio-IT World? Drop me a line if you are and we can try and meet (it’s going to be hectic).
- Ever wondered how I keep track of all the services I use … I keep a mindmap
