Category Archives: Web as platform

The web as platform: The distributed self

By Deepak Singh | Published: August 16, 2009

Been thinking about a bunch about content creation and the web lately (sounds like Cameron Neylon and Google Wave, but not quite as ambitious). Part of it is “new shiny toy syndrome”, but also from the way the web is evolving and my own thoughts around distributed content and presence on the web. Some of [...]

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The web as platform: Making connections

By Deepak Singh | Published: July 17, 2009

Jon Udell, as always, has a very insightful post about the web and the connections that we can make (or can’t make). He talks about web applications and services talking to each other, specifically Dopplr and Tripit, both services I use, albeit independently of each other, although I wish they could talk to each [...]

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Web as platform: Linking data. RDF stores and augmentation

By Deepak Singh | Published: June 13, 2009

Mashing up RDF data. See how you can use the Talis Platform to augment one data set with another.

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Web as platform: Chemvendor grows up and becomes Chemcaster

By Deepak Singh | Published: May 8, 2009

Rich Apodaca is one of my favorite bloggers out there. His blog covers topics of interest at a number of levels, from cheminformatics to Ruby on Rails to we services. He also happens to be the found of Metamolecular which develops software and services that, in the words of the site, brings chemistry [...]

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Web as platform: Services for protein function analysis

By Deepak Singh | Published: March 6, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Distributed; check. Function Analysis; check. Network; check. That’s always a good start, but there’s more than just words to like about FuncNet. FuncNet is an open platform for prediction and comparison of protein function and, perhaps more significantly, is funded by the EMBRACE network. Why do I think that’s significant? Cause EMBRACE is [...]

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