[Asis-l] Collection of links on science, medicine, scholarly communication and general Web stuff

[hleman at samhealth.org]

Hi, all. I have been roaming around in Twitter again and would like to pass along links to some tools and think pieces I came across.

Hope Leman, MLIS
Research Information Technologist
Center for Health Research and Quality
Samaritan Health Services
815 NW 9th Street Suite 203A
Corvallis, OR 97330
(541) 768-5712

Word Lens real-time translating app:

http://questvisual.com/

A history of computing flamewars—in handy graph form!

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/12/history-of-computingin-handy-graph-form.ars

Sitesimon is a clickstreaming service that keeps users connected with the sites their friends are visiting in real-time.

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/12/18/sitesimon-encourages-you-to-spy-on-your-friends-web-activity/?awesm=tnw.to_17Csl&utm_content=twitter-publisher-main&utm_medium=tnw.to-twitter&utm_source=direct-tnw.to

Find abstracts and comment on them. Annotatr is a mashup, combining CiteULike abstracts with the Disqus commenting system.

http://annotatr.appspot.com/

Google Body Browser

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/12/google-body-browser.html

Evolving English voice map

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/evolvingenglish/2010/12/mr-tickle-continued.html

Foldit is a revolutionary new computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research.

http://fold.it/portal/info/science

TweetStats Graph your Twitter

http://tweetstats.com/

Feel a Kiss and Touch Someone Through Your Phone

Think about the possibilities for rehab and assistive technology and communication disorders:

Video worth watching:

http://www.bitrebels.com/geek/feel-a-kiss-and-touch-someone-through-your-phone/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Tweak the Tweet is a hashtag-based syntax to help direct Twitter communications for more efficient data extraction for those communicating about disaster events.

http://epic.cs.colorado.edu/tweak-the-tweet/

Uniquation is designed to search for mathematical information on the Internet.

http://uniquation.com/en/

Google Shared Spaces
What happens with all the Google Wave gadgets, now that Google Wave has been discontinued? They're available in Google Shared Spaces, a small Google Labs project that helps you collaborate with other people by adding information to a gadget

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/12/google-shared-spaces.html

Open Access Introduction : Supporting researchers with open access

http://www.slideshare.net/sussexlibrary/open-access-introduction-supporting-researchers-with-open-access-open-access-week

Why I and you should avoid NC licences

http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2010/12/17/why-i-and-you-should-avoid-nc-licences/

Let’s see what happens with this project:

What is Ledface?
We call it collective artificial intelligence. Ledface is a project powered by a crowdsourcing technology that connects you to the collective human knowledge. You can ask Ledface whatever you want, about any subject and you will get not just “results” but contextualized answers and opinions.

http://www.ledface.com/blog/about-us/

Tweepi - the first and only Twitter Follow Management with stats...

http://tweepi.com/?t

Listoid--Top Lists of Everything! Discover the best of web in list form.

Cute video here:

http://www.listoid.com/trailer

Tweasier is a new Twitter application currently in beta.

http://tweasier.com/features

TweetChat

Follow activities via hashtags:

http://tweetchat.com/

TweetGrid

http://tweetgrid.com/

Track mentions of your username on twitter and have them sent to your mobile phone as it happens. For Free!

http://push.ly/?r=tga

HashTracking.com is the premier Twitter hashtag tracking and analytics service.

http://www.hashtracking.com/

TogoDoc Server/Client System: Smart Recommendation and Efficient Management of Life Science Literature

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0015305

Does Collocation Inform the Impact of Collaboration?

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0014279

FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0014287

Participatory Epidemiology: Use of Mobile Phones for Community-Based Health Reporting

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000376

DeleteMe: A Delete Button for Your Sordid Internet Past

http://www.good.is/post/deleteme-a-delete-button-for-your-sordid-internet-past/

PhatPad: a Newton-like note-taking app for iPad

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/12/18/phatpad-a-newton-like-note-taking-app-for-ipad/

Tools to build your own federated social network

buddycloud channels

http://open.buddycloud.com/

5 Free and Useful Online SEO tools

http://www.shoutmeloud.com/5-free-and-useful-online-seo-tools.html

•  Create a story out of your favorite tweets
Organize tweets into a compelling narrative quickly and easily.
•  Save interesting stories to Storybook
Set aside interesting stories by fellow users for further reading.

http://chirpstory.com/

Academic Search Engine Spam and Google Scholar’s Resilience Against it
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;view=text;rgn=main;idno=3336451.0013.305

Redux
Find and enjoy videos, photos, music, and websites recommended by people who love the same stuff you do.
http://redux.com/signup/0NDUUMa?_l=AAMDEg&tm=1

Monitoring PubMed retractions: a Heroku-hosted Sinatra application

http://nsaunders.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/monitoring-pubmed-retractions-a-heroku-hosted-sinatra-application/

5 Free Annotation and Collaboration Tools for Web Projects

http://mashable.com/2010/12/23/free-annotation-collaboration-tools/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mashable%2Fdev-design+%28Mashable+%C2%BB+Development+and+Design%29

Measurement and analysis
http://oneforty.com/dirktherabbit/measurement-and-analysis

calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories:

http://calibre-ebook.com/

Scholarometer

http://scholarometer.indiana.edu/

Tatoeba – a free and open database of sentences

http://yoyodyne.cc/tatoeba/

The Public Domain Review

The Public Domain Review is exactly what it says on the tin: a web-based review of works which have entered the public domain.

http://publicdomainreview.okfn.org/

Authoratory is privately funded search engine for finding experts. Fully functional now, with many exciting features, Authoratory is still under active development. The chemist and Open Science maven Jean-Claude Bradley warns, though, “Looks like there is no way to add or edit info - from FAQ: The indexing services work with some delay and it might take years for the article to be included.”

http://www.authoratory.com/about/about.htm

Pollmo is the world's simplest polling application.

http://pollmo.com/

Create Your Own Custom QR Code!

All you need is a smart phone and your custom Jumpscan QR code!

http://jumpscan.com/

Memolane

Capture photos, music, tweets, posts, and much more.

View and share your entire online life in one place.

Explore and search your history.

http://www.memolane.com/index.html

Useful reading by Martin Fenner:

Author Identifier Overview
http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/author-identifier-overview/

And on a related note:

The ISNI and Its Role in Providing Scholarly Content

http://sspnet.org/News/The_ISNI_and_Its_Role_in_Providi/news.aspx

Marginize
•       Extend every page on the web with a space for all
•       See what others are saying about any page you browse
•       Share with existing friends or new ones, and have fun!

http://www.marginize.com/

Mashing up library data with open source

http://opensource.com/life/11/1/mashing-library-data-open-source?sc_cid=70160000000IDmjAAG

Twitter 210: Vanity URL Shortening

http://social-media-university-global.org/2011/01/twitter-210-vanity-url-shortening/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LinesfromLee+%28Social+Media+University%2C+Global%29

Software That Summarizes

http://summarity.com/

Citebrite Link directly to quotes in Web pages.

http://citebite.com/

The 13 Best Analytics Tools to Keep Track of Your Visitors

http://www.testking.com/techking/roundups/the-13-best-analytics-tools-to-keep-track-of-your-visitors/

Groundcrew activates your social networks and lists. It turns them into action networks, and it puts mission control in your pocket.

http://groundcrew.us/

Embargo Watch

http://embargowatch.wordpress.com/

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