“When I "like" an item and then delicious/connotea/whatever it, that second action doesn't need to show up on my friendfeed... would that be hard to implement?”
Update: six people "liked" this so far, but I can't see who the last two are. I found a lot of my current FF subscriptions by checking people who "liked" things I posted or "liked" myself, so I'd like (heh) to have a way to show/hide the entire "liked" list. - Bill Hooker
Bill - I agree that would be nice to see. About the redundancy thing, it's also not necessary to show it when two people in a room bookmark the same thing. Perhaps there could be some grouping by URI? - Mr. Gunn
/me paces the room, checking out the decor - Neil Saunders
We have a more & more valuable emerging online biogeek community - Attila Csordas
Yep ... we are. Need to figure out how to combine personal feed and room effectively - Deepak
right .. I don't see it yet. It depends on the way sharing works differently between rooms and world. What is the advantage ? I can subscribe to a room without subscribing to everyone in it ? so that if someone wants to separate public from work feed stuff I could get just one section of someones FF, that one related to the room ? - Pedro Beltrao
question: if I flag something from a room can other people outside a room that have me in their list see it ? - Pedro Beltrao
Pedro, Good question. To me, I see it as a direct attack by Friendfeed on Digg and Reddit, two sites I have rarely found useful, but if all of us share items to a room here (LS related) maybe we will get something useful to talk about (apart from our personal streams). Lets see how it works out over time - Deepak
Cool presentation. Slide 63, "Accessibility" with [24/7, East coast, West coast, Down the Corridor] should also have a very thin, broken dotted line that says "Australia - Andrew Perry
very cool presentation. Would Google help with space in some of their data-centers ? - Pedro Beltrao
Thanks one and all! The problem is really two fold: handling the raw data, and managing what people want to do with it, the analysis. We have the handling in place (_lots_ of disks, at present), but we need to start thinking about analysis. - Matt Wood
so lets say I want to stop using local data and I want to use EBI's databases from the cloud to request a filtered set of data and analyze it in my own way it, there might be some ways of doing it but the work flow would be too slow due to data movement. Are you suggesting that the analysis be done on the cloud as well ? That I upload my own (smaller) data sets and analysis tools and be able to use some virtual computer with access to EBIs databases ? - Pedro Beltrao
That's one reason I thought we might need some form of CDN for all these data. The sheer size of sequencing data are huge, but after all the images are processed it's manageable IF we can distribute it at a web scale (as opposed to hitting a particular server). - Deepak
which is pretty much what Matt is talking about as of this writing (watching the screencast) - Deepak
@Pedro: exactly. You could imagine firing up a virtual machine that comes pre-packaged with the tools to access and search the distributed data store, along with useful analysis tools: MAQ, BLAST, whatever. However, we're shouldn't be looking to be all things to all people. Such facilities should be focused on scientific requirements. - Matt Wood
Just as a point of reference, one of the BioTeam offerings is essentially exactly that ... a set of tools provided essentially as a packaged virtual machine. - Deepak
