Social ads and the appliance of science
Something odd is happening – it almost looks like Facebook has started delivering relevant, targeted ads to scientists. Read more
Something odd is happening – it almost looks like Facebook has started delivering relevant, targeted ads to scientists. Read more
On Monday we launched a new look for Nature’s podcast pages (it’ll roll out gradually – the ever popular Neuropod is first with the others to follow). One immediate benefit is that you can now embed a Flash player in your blog or website. Read more
Free drinks and nibbles – Cambridge knows how to discuss a paper … Read more
Barend Mons left a comment on last week’s critique of WikiProteins which deserves a new post, really, to help balance out the critical one. I think that for the most part Barend’s points are helpful and reasoned, and you can read the full thing under the fold. Read more
I’ve added a feed of the latest activity from the Life Scientists room on FriendFeed (now nudging sixty – seventy users) to the Nascent sidebar. Read more
WookieProfessional … Read more
Stamen is a hip online design outfit based in San Francisco. They’re well known for working on data visualizations for Trulia and Digg, and their own high profile websites like Oakland Crime Map and Cabspotting. Last week we were lucky enough to get founder Eric Rodenbeck to come in to give us a talk, which I will now liveblog eight days after the fact… … Read more
Over the next few weeks we’re going to run a short series of guest posts from people working on the sharp edge of science 2.0 who we think are particularly cool and interesting. Read more
Considerable time and effort goes into producing print copies of journals, both here at Nature and at other scientific publishers. It’s something that pains my web publishing heart. Is print really necessary? Do the benefits outweigh the costs? If they do, are those benefits to consumers… or really just to us publishers? If we dropped print altogether could the savings fund a free bar at the next NPG xmas party? Certainly print still has the edge over online in some situations. I’m a recent convert to the print version of Nature journal – it’s far easier to browse bitty front … Read more
I was hoping to coin ‘the streamosphere’ but it’s already in Google. Neh. Anyway… The last month or two has seen many science 2.0 (for lack of a better term) bloggers pick up Twitter and FriendFeed. If you’ve never heard of the former then you probably shouldn’t be reading Nascent. The latter is an activity aggregator: you sign up, tell it which other services you use (del.icio.us? last.fm? blogs?) and it generates a page listing all of your public activity across those services like the Facebook mini-feed writ large. You can see feeds from your friends and attach short comments … Read more