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Interactions with OCLC
My team has been interacting with OCLC over the last few months. Great group of folks. Lee Dirks (himself a great guy), our Director of Scholarly Communications, has been putting us in touch with various publishing companies (hence my recent interactions with Nature Publishing*), repository providers (we’ll have more to say about this space soon),…
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Amazon’s Dynamo and Flexible Payment Services
I have been bad at following blogs recently. Today, I revisited some of my favorite ones and saw the reference to Amazon‘s upcoming ‘Dynamo’ service in Werner‘s blog. This is very very interesting. I guess it’s going to be a service on the cloud for application state management. I wonder whether they are going to…
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He did what?
I am sorry but that’s just stupid. I like the iPhone as much as the next guy, but com’on… (also note Dr. Fox’s goal of “improving workplace efficiency” :-|) Surgically alters thumbs to better use iPhone Written by James Benfly Wednesday, 08 August 2007 Thomas Martel, 28, of Bonnie Brae is a big guy. So…
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My first tattoo
I am scheduled to do my first tattoo tomorrow. It’s going to be three characters at the inside of my left arm. I’ve decided on the characters but not on the typeface yet. I know this is very short notice, but let’s see what you all think…
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This must be one of the stupidest things I’ve ever done
I’ve been traveling for years and I had various adventures but I have never done this. I guess there is always a first. As I said in my previous post, I came to Orlando for MGX and one of Craig Mundie’s demo, which I think went really well. I woke up this morning, after having…
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At MGX
I am in Orlando for Microsoft‘s MGX event. I am here to make sure everything goes well with one of the demos in Craig Mundie‘s keynote speech. I have been managing the development of the prototype and the interactions with Prof. Jeff Lichtman and Dr. Bobby Kasthuri from Harvard. The prototyping team in Microsoft has…
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26 Nobel Prize Winners sign another letter to the US Congress
This is about open access to publicly funded research. Not that my opinion has the weight of these Nobel Prize winners but I am agreeing nevertheless 🙂
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I am back!
I had already mentioned I was in Glastonbury (panoramas) and then stayed in the UK for few days for work-related meetings (e.g. Nature visit). After the UK I went to Greece for few days of holidays. I saw my family and relaxed a lot; truly felt that my batteries were fully recharged. Here are a…
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Some panorama fun
I installed the beta of Windows Live Photo Gallery, which supports panoramic stitching, so I played around a bit. Manycore Computing Workshop 07 Glastonbury 07 This last one is really nice, from the Pyramid stage before the Keizer Chiefs if I remember well.
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Nature visit
I was at Nature Publishing Group‘s offices in London today to meet with Timo Hannay (Director of Web Publishing), Ian Mulvary (Product Development Manager), and Euan Adie (Product Development Manager). Wow! These folks are doing really cool stuff. More importantly, however, they are interested in doing even cooler stuff to help researchers around the world…