Jan 12, 2009

Submitted by Rg Team: ResearchGATE (www.researchgate.net), the leading social network for scientists, is paving the way to Web 3.0: The international academic platform has implemented intelligent search functions unequalled in the online world until now. The results of its new search engine, called ReFind, are not merely based on keywords, but s (Read More)

Jan 27, 2009

Mashable! The US Patent Office has signed, sealed, and delivered a late Christmas present to Apple. On January 20th, the powers that be awarded patent #7,479,949, titled Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics, to Apple. Essentially, Apple wins the war on their multi-t (Read More)

Jan 27, 2009

Portals and KM Dan Schawbel wrote an excellent post on Mashable on the Top 10 Reputation Tracking Tools Worth Paying For. I have reviewed one of them on the AppGap – see Radian6 – Monitoring Social Media. You can find Dan’s view of Radian6 and 9 others through the above post. I list the complete ten below in this cross-post from AppGap wi (Read More)

Jan 27, 2009

Submitted by Soeren: ResearchGATE has successfully launched this year as the leading social network for natural scientists. It offers many cutting-edge tools and applications for researchers to interact and collaborate. By now, more than 17,000 users have signed up and the number is growing daily. (Read More)

Jan 25, 2009

ResearchGATE:blog “Your job as a scientist is to think for yourself and question what the herd is thinking.”—CHARLES COBBS, CALIFORNIA PACIFICMEDICAL CENTER, Science Magazine Vol 323, 2 Jan. 2009. Cobbs believes the Glioblastoma multiforme (the most dangerous brain tumor, that kills 97% of those diagnosed within 5 years) may be caused or at (Read More)

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