The fruits of our collaborative effort at http://ff.im/beKZB . Special thanks to the other co-authors http://friendfeed.com/danielm... and http://friendfeed.com/allyson - Björn Brembs

@Frank: you should try the Readability bookmarklet: http://lab.arc90.com/experim... -- works wonders :) - Michael Kuhn

tschuss, share your enthusiasm about Friendfeed! I brought these here - http://friendfeed.com/science..., http://friendfeed.com/popsci24, http://friendfeed.com/gizmag, http://friendfeed.com/livesci..., http://friendfeed.com/newscie..., http://friendfeed.com/science..., http://friendfeed.com/physorg..., http://friendfeed.com/green24. .... etc ..... what do you think? ..... http://WorldNewsRecord.wordpress.com - pb:

Cool! Subscribed to some of those, thanks! - Björn Brembs

sure :] .... posted this to http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - here you can complain about Friendfeed :] ... .... http://friendfeed.com/mashabl... - pb:

Very nice, has anyone tried to set-up and using the open source'd FriendFeed, called Tornado? http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... - joergkurtwegner

Awesome! I did not know of Tornado! This will come extremely handy should my grant get funded! Thanks! - Björn Brembs from iPhone

Björn, when do you hear about the grant. Jeremy was asking yesterday and assuming it hadn't been funded but I had a vague memory you wouldn't hear until ~March? - Cameron Neylon

All they said when we submitted was "not before 2010". There you go, now you know as much as I do :-) Which reminds me to maybe give the lady a ring and ask how things are looking... - Björn Brembs

Just got off the phone with her. She said it's still under review and she wouldn't know anything further before the end of March. - Björn Brembs

Which reminds me: is anybody here in contact with the two groups receiving NIH funding to develop FfS? http://www.nih.gov/news... - Björn Brembs

Not really - last time I looked there was precious little real information out there. It would make me much more confident of the value of the projects if the proposals were put out for public discussion. - Cameron Neylon

I am in contact with the Cornell/UFL one which will focus on people, though not in a way very similar to facebook (the Harvard one is focusing on research infrastructure). Both have a national focus initially, but at least the former envisions to go global eventually, to collaborate with existing platforms if that makes sense to them (especially in terms of RDF compatibility), and to produce open source code. - Daniel Mietchen

@Daniel: I'd imagine the DFG would appreciate it if we told them we are in close contact with these two groups. Let me know if any of these guys show any interest towards us. Is there any public information about the projects so I could contact them as well? - Björn Brembs

Björn, I forwarded our mail exchange to you. - Daniel Mietchen

Great! Thanks a lot - do we have contact with the other group in Harvard as well? - Björn Brembs

Not that I know. - Daniel Mietchen