The British Library and Microsoft collaborated on this wonderful exemplar, Turning Pages. I played with it for a bit and it’s wonderful. Just point your browser to the Turning Page WPF application URL and it will be automatically started. You need to have .NET 3.0 installed or running Vista. Read more …
/**/ … but he’s going to turn up soon, I am sure. “Coast Guard searches for missing Microsoft researcher” (link doesn’t work anymore) Google news Read more [...]
… but he’s going to turn up soon, I am sure. “Coast Guard searches for missing Microsoft researcher”
Here’s an example where a physics engine is utilized in the management of documents. I don’t actually like the interface for day-to-day activities but I can see how useful ideas/technologies can be extracted and integrated in modern desktop/applications user interfaces. (YouTube video) Read more [...]
/**/ Found this cool app for managing my Netflix queue (via Kostas’ blog). Nice! Read more [...]
I got the following email from the Public Library of Science and signed their petition. If you agree, please consider signing it too. Dear PLoS Letter Signers, We are writing to you because you signed the PLoS open letter some years ago urging scientific publishers to allow the research reports …
I have been getting so many spam comments, I’ve decided to spend few minutes adding antispam support for pblog. I suspect that the spammers will manage to bypass the very simple protection I’ve built but it’ll do for now. Please let me know if you encounter any problems. If you …
Yesterday, I was talking with Mike Buschman of Windows Live Academic Search and I set myself a challenge: I suggested to him that I could demonstrate the integration of scholarly publication search directly within Word 2007, all during the course of the presentation we were just about to attend (I had already seen the slides …
/**/ I arrived at San Antonio today for the Open Repositories 2007 conference (I am surprised they don’t have a unique URI for the 2007 conference site, at least not yet). Tony Hey will be giving the closing keynote on Friday. We are keen to engage with this community since we …
How about that? Remember the discussions from months ago (“WS-Web” and “Names and Addresses – a different view”) about the identity of resources and their relationship to HTTP URIs? I just read this story about Netscape taking down the resource representation of the RSS 0.91 DTD Schema at the end of the …
/**/ Well, it had to happen at some point… a Grid game :-) I saved humanity from a volcano erruption, an eartquake, the avian flu, and I’ve even found aliens; all with the power of Grid computing!!! Via Dan. Read more [...]
Paul Watson pointed me to the January 2007 issue of the “Physics world”. You’ll notice a number of articles related to open access and the impact of Web to scholary publication and the peer review process. It’s funny how not all of those articles are available :-) I found that …
I just read that Don Ferguson has joined Microsoft. Very cool!
These are funny.
I just finished watching Bill Gates’ keynote at CES from last Sunday (I know, I should have been reviewing papers instead). I watched Steve Jobs’ keynote at Macworld from yesterday. Wow! The geek in me cannot wait for all the things that have been announced. I love the style and interface of …
Panos is visiting Microsoft and he’s staying in Seattle for few days. It’s great to see him. Need to think what we are going to be doing over the weekend. I went to pick him up from building 41 today to go out for dinner. It took me 2 1/2 …