Zotero taking it the next step with automatic synchronization between computers. - Ricardo Vidal
Been waiting for this. Central storage + more citation styles could switch me back to Zotero. - Neil Saunders
I've been so keen for these features I tried the preview release just then. Didn't work (failed to migrate my existing database), but I've told them about the bug ... - Andrew Perry
Someone had some fun with their 20% time and made something for their kids! :) - Ricardo Vidal
Allegedly, in a handful of years, virtual worlds are going to be much more integral to our lives than they are now. Google's gotta at least try. - Dan Kaplan
haha I downloaded it and then thought..they should have gotten the world of warcraft people to do the graphics stuff.. ughhh - Hillary Roberts
I knew that downtime wasn't going to get people to switch to other services. If anything it'll make people look for distractions but even though I am on FriendFeed 99% of the time I still use Twitter for the time being. - Michael Narciso
Twitter's investors are doing cartwheels right now - Mike Doeff
I think their measurement strategy may be flawed -- I go to Twitter at least once a month just out of morbid curiosity. And I certainly post tweets in response to tweets that appear on FF but for all intents and purposes Twitter is dead for me. I suspect there are many others like me that are being counted as users that should not be. - Brian Sullivan
@Brian Sullivan - I'm getting the other way around. I use Twitter more than FF these days. - William Beem
I find it amusing you titled it "you people" when I see "techcrunch" on my updates almost as much as Calacanis or Scoble whenever I check Twitter. It's not a service we're paying for and, people are voicing the fact they aren't happy about the issues. We'll leave when we get tired enough of it. For now..and for what Twitter offers, it's still the best thing going. - Candace Holly
I think it makes a very big difference if there is an automatic process that deposits the papers in open repositories versus having the authors doing it themselves. Even if it is just a few keystrokes there will a be a significant number of people that will not do it just out of inaction. - Pedro Beltrao
Each new site should have a "why we're different/better than all the others" statement, because I'm not seeing it. Saying they're first is blatantly untrue, isn't it? - Mr. Gunn
Calling yourself the first when you're not: FAIL - Ricardo Vidal
true it is a bit misleading - if you feel isolated as a grad student join the blogosphere - plenty of grad students with blogs - Jean-Claude Bradley
Exactly, JCB! A network of bloggers is a social network, in fact it's the original social network. Facebook is just training wheels. - Mr. Gunn
While they are at it, just add bike directions too :) - Ricardo Vidal
The article seems to suggest that 'safe areas' may be used to help determine good walking routes ... I wonder if this is a mashup of those 'crime maps' under the hood ? - Andrew Perry
the dad in me really likes both her and i assume her dad's reaction to this, not a small one i imagine :) - mike "glemak" dunn
they're in the family bomb shelter, aren't they? after this they had some spam and filtered water, then worked on zombie-proofing the backyard. - Nick
Yes, I'm recruiting her as point when World War Z starts. - Glenn Batuyong via twhirl
This is giving me a great idea for storyline involving a group of assassins that masquerade as girl scouts out selling cookies. Mr. wanna buy some cookies?...shiny! - Mark Forman
call me a hippie (you wouldn't be the first), but I'd like to live in a world where my kids didn't even know what "field-stripping" an assault rifle meant - nathan
I find sites with "remember me" boxes very confusing - it's never clear exactly what they remember. Usually to do with cookie storage, I think. - Neil Saunders
It's pretty much permission for the site to store a cookie, although I agree, the NN cookie doesn't seem to work - Deepak
It was working for me for a while. Now it doesn't always remember me. Guess it's because I've been neglecting it so much... :( I'm sorry NN!! Please remember me again... I promise I'll come around more often. - Ricardo Vidal
Remember to also check the "remember to remember me" checkbox... - Eric Jain
It remembered me today, but usually I just use Firefox's remembering powers so my info is at least filled out and I only have to click a button. - Eva
It remembers me for longer than claimID does - who was it who recommended me claim ID for an openID? - Maxine
I also rely on Firefox so it is easier to login, otherwise I would have to type everytime I access it. - PauloNuin
I'm using the Sxipper Firefox extension to remember my login information. It has some nice features for automatic form filling. - Yuval Langer
Maxine, not too late to switch to myopenid.com. They do a great job - Deepak
Think about that when deciding to apply for a PhD ;) - Pedro Beltrao
Given the circumstances, I'm probably going to "lab tech" a while before applying for a PhD... - Ricardo Vidal
Good move, Ricardo. For some reason I thought you were a postdoc, but since you're not -- think *hard* about what you'll be getting into if you go that route. (I'm not saying don't do it, just that not rushing in is a very good idea.) - Bill Hooker
Bill, if I had the opportunity I think I would probably dive into it (PhD). However, I think lab tech would be a good start - Ricardo Vidal
I suggest to all students that they consider working as a tech/research asst before they start a PhD. I did it myself, and it's the only reason I survived the PhD. You get an up-close-and-personal look at the job you'll be training for and hands-on experience that can't be beat when applying for grad school. If you are lucky (and perhaps prepared to move around a bit), you can often switch from tech to grad student on the same project, getting a flying head start in a lab where you already know you fit. - Bill Hooker
Bill, that's exactly why I'm considering tech/research assistant position (with whoever will take me) at a lab working on topics I'm really interested in. - Ricardo Vidal
Happens with music all the time. To imagine there was a time I actually liked Ratt just a little (oops did I just say that out aloud) - Deepak
You'll be surprised but the only Movie I can watch with real pleasure year by year is The Matrix. :) - Berci Mesko
I find music often relates to a time in my life. Not so much that I don't like it anymore, it just loses relevance. - Neil Saunders
All sci-fi movies w/ confusing cyclical time-travel events are bad. Worst examples are Terminator & Back to the Future series. 12 Monkeys was not too bad. I still like it for Bruce & Brad. - Vijay Sadasivam
I have a special problem with Terry Gilliam movies: I fell asleep on almost all of them, most notably on Brazil. Brad Pitt is not that bad in 12 Monkeys, the only thing that made me smile. - Attila Csordas
I never really thought 12 monkeys was a great movie. I suspect the book might have been a good read, though. - Ricardo Vidal
12 Monkeys is one of my least favorite Gilliam movies (Brazil being my favorite). I have to be in a very precise kind of mood to enjoy 12 Monkeys. When I do watch it, I enjoy it but I always walk away disappointed. - Akiva Moskovitz
There were moments when I gave a chance to the Brothers Grimm while actually watching it. - Attila Csordas
Evernote is nice but the OCR features needs work plus I'm not impressed with the plans. Once I found out about Together from http://reinventedsoftware.com/... I haven't used Evernote since. It has potential but it has a way to go. - Chris Rodgers
@Chris I would also like to hear what you to say about the security of these services. If everything is moving up to the cloud so to speak. How can I really trust services like Evernote to keep my data secure from data loss or even data theft? This is something I've been really thinking about for a while. And in this case is why I went to a desktop app like Together. - Chris Rodgers
Off topic, but I have to mention it - Its impossible to reach your blog Chris, "Error establishing a database connection" - robert sørensen via twhirl
Skitch, skitch, skitch...heck Skitch has got to be the baddest desktop app of the year. - Zee from WeDoCreative
I find that Gmail works just as well, though with less organization. The upside is significantly more space, great search capes and offline client via IMAP. - Steve Rubel
most of my notes are in regards to what I am doing at the moment, so I just jot them down in quickbooks online, which I use to keep track of my billing. Other than that, I regret to say my company has a sharepoint site. - Tim Wright
I use a personal wiki called TiddlyWiki. It's a self-contained wiki in a single html file that I carry around on a USB stick (with backups to my main system frequently). I allows a lot of tagging and has decent search capability. I also use this as my todo journal for work so I can always go back in time to see what I was doing at a given point in time. - Bryan Hunter via twhirl
A Moleskine and a black Pilot G2 pen. - Cecily Walker
Agreed, I am a big fan of Evernote. Together is nice, but I like that i can sync Evernote against both my Mac and PC. - Scott Watermasysk
"A Moleskine and a black Pilot G2 pen"--you are speaking my language, those are my exact tools. - Kyle Hebert
I use MS OneNote. I like the folders and notebooks and the pages are whatever size you need them to be. I like being able to put notes anywhere on the page. I use the clipping tool to catch a shot of anything that pops up on the screen that I may need later. I just started trying out Zotero, a FF add-on, for research notes. - Maggie Longshore via twhirl
OneNote w/ UMPC. I have my OneNote files synced w/ laptop and desktop with FolderShare. Works nice. - Rodfather
I use ballpoint pens and several notebooks or just plain paper with it. Since I also like to draw it is good thing to have those around everywhere. This reminds me of that I should start to take more notes of things in life. Also, I have found out that digital camera is great tool to make "notes" since you can take photo of item or store so you could remember it later when you view what you have taken. - Daniel Schildt
Currently alternating between Evernote and OneNote on a Tablet PC - Warner Crocker
I use onenote on my 2 laptops and my desktop, files stored on my Dlink Nas device. Evernote on my MB Proand windows machine. Then Foldershare to access everything from each machine. - Stephen Kennedy via twhirl
In a text editor, using Textile for markup. I also always carry a moleskine with me - Deepak
When using computer, I mostly just write notes to Gmail message and sent it to myself or save as draft. Could use Google Docs more but it's too slow compared to basic text mode of Gmail. - Daniel Schildt
Evernote is my new brain. The old one, she no work so good no more. - Marci Maleski
The irony of looking up notes in his spiral pad notebook to describe an online note taking app... - Ricardo Vidal
I use my Livescribe Pulse Smartpen (http://livescribe.com) most of the time, and Evernote if I'm near a computer. The Pulse pen is awesome, I highly recommend it to anyone that needs to take notes on a regular basis. - Donato (ricin)
the idea of writing on a computer, a tablet pc, is so appealing to me... - edythe
I just discovered Zotero while looking for something to highlight and annotate webpages. It does much more than that, and I'm looking forward to working with it. - Tom Landini
Index cards, Evernote and iPhone notes. Together looks REALLY nice, I'm truly impressed. However, the ability to get to my notes on my Mac, my iPhone and on my PC at work has me hooked on Evernote. Still waiting for MS to release OneNote for Mac. OneNote just can't be beat. It would be nice to see Evernote develop a richer feature set, something closer what Together has. - Jack Collins
I used to carry around a pad or notebook. But now I just e-mail myself, that way I don't have to re-transcribe. - clarke thomas via fftogo
It seems that 130+ bases/chars and it returns this weird list of videos. Anything less, it doesn't return anything. - Ricardo Vidal
The maximum word length in Google appears to be 128 bytes (looks like they increased it after the llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch debacle). But I do wonder why there is this list of 10 videos that is returned for all queries that consist of words that are too long! - Eric Jain
it might, if part of the movie coding has segments of the sequence in it. - PauloNuin
Maybe it assumes that if someone just mashed the keyboard randomly and typed some very long strings, they are bored, so why not give them some videos to watch ? - Andrew Perry
I checked, any sequence of random chars, 130+ renders that list of videos. The same videos :) - Ricardo Vidal
Hidden DNA sequences in a Snoop Dogg video? We may be on to something BIG here :-) But note that any term that is too long appears to result in the same list of videos. Also, while Google may now be extracting text from Flash content, I don't think they process Flash video. - Eric Jain
Talk about an easter egg. Question is how did you chance upon this wonderful discovery? What sequence did you put into the GOOG? - Deepak
It's a sequence from a Part from the partsregistry.org and we wanted to see if Google was indexing the sequences. Seems it isn't and what happens is the weird videos :) - Ricardo Vidal
Imagine if Google did index sequences. Proteomics researchers could abandon Mascot and identify their peptides via Google :) - Neil Saunders
Don't really find it worth posting home about... The nav menu at the top should be real text, not images with titles. That is a usability issue right there. Just my 2 cents - Ricardo Vidal
I checked out the updated website, and I really don't like how the two right sidebars are much more prominent than the abstract of the content. - Kambiz Kamrani
I kinda like it. There's a fair amount of metadata included, bookmarking links, and so on. Familiar to anyone who reads blogs, anyways. I would have used vector graphics for the heading and about links, though, so they don't get ugly at different sizes. I like the keyword links, too, but would have expected them to work like tags, though, searching the keyword field instead of full text. - Mr. Gunn
Indeed a very smooth transition, I didn't even notice it had changed at all. - PauloNuin
check out the "most cited" papers - Sanger sequencing, PAGE, microarray clustering, FASTA - all methods. Which next-gen sequencing will end up on the list? - Mr. Gunn
I'm with Ricardo. Barely noticeable and what is noticeable isn't great. - Neil Saunders
Enabling! I'm so done with doing research right now. Too slow, too frustrating. It's fun now that I'm writing up my thesis, but every chapter was two years of work and I was unhappy and stressed and suppressed 99% of my time at the bench. - Eva
doing research. But mother Nature said "NOOOOO!!!!, the bench is not a safe place for Science when you're using your pipetman" :-) - Pierre
enabling. I like the variety of challenges that brings as opposed to the microfocus of research - Daniel Swan via twhirl
Doing it, definitely. I've been a patch clamper a long time now, but I still get a thrill when I see currents up on the screen. There's nothing like it. - NatBlair
I loved doing research myself, but as a career, definitely the latter. - Deepak
Enabling: adding value to anything which helps the scientific method. Always different, emerging and interesting. - Matt Wood
Enabling it. I have the same feeling as Eva and Matt. - PauloNuin
both, but like to walk on the computational side - Attila Csordas
occasional bench research + running lab as a PI + teaching students - 2/3 of the current hellish grant burden = perfect - Maureen
enabling. greater variety, plus I still get to do all the original thinking I want to. Also I was a danger with P32. - Simon Cockell
I love doing research, but I hate writing it up. I enjoy writing well-crafted Ruby code to answer scientific questions, but I'm utterly useless at communicating the results. - Michael Barton
Haven't had much experience enabling yet, but I have the feeling I'd enjoy enabling research more consistently than doing research. But doing research does give a thrill if it goes well and you can keep the interest alive. - Shirley Wu
I do lots of "research" -- on the internets... - Eric Jain
Enabling & Connecting Minds. In doing my focus seems to move towards empirical work, statistics, anything in highly complex macro-systems. Ah, science in industry is cool. - dekay
It used to be research but then it got to a point where there were no tools available that could meet my needs, so now it has turned to enabling and trying to develop those tools. - Paul Bacchus
maybe I'm on the enabling side? Well fact is I've developed my share of computational methodologies and software so far, and it was fun!, but when it comes to thinking about the biological theories/hypotheses/paper writing from the data the software spit out, I kind of hate it. So I guess I'm no into "doing research", but more for hacking the heck out of it... - Ntino
I just don't know. I'm having a really hard time with that exact question right now. I'm nearing my use-by date as a postdoc and not sure I really want to try to scramble up the faculty food chain. - Bill Hooker
Happy Birthday! You start getting "old" from here on out. ;) But at least you can still be trusted for 9 more years. :) Enjoy your day!!! - Lindsay Donaghe
Happy B'day - here have a shooter round of tequila..its legal to drink !! - Peter Dawson
happy birthday, don't answer the phone if your parents call and you're drunk. - Andrea Baker
Happy birthday, drink lots... (legally now) - Michael Narciso
NO NO dont listen to Andrea.. if they call when drunk , just let them have it ..at crazy make them embarrassed and what not :)- after all you only hit 21 once in your life and they will understand that you are high spririted. After today, your poppy still have the right to kick you butt and mum has the right to smack you inside out.. they are still your parents :)_ - Peter Dawson
But then 10 years later your mom still reminds you about all the stuff you said to her while drunk in Germany being fed crackers on the floor by your friends so you can somewhat coherently take the call. ... oh never mind, let them have it. :) - Andrea Baker
Happy Birthday! Today is also my 21st birthday. - pcnerd37
congratulations! now you can join the Army! Oh, wait, that was three years ago. Have a smoke and a drink instead. woohoo. (but seriously - congratulations!) - Bruce Williams
WOW - thanks everyone! I'm counting down the hours until the fun begins :^ ) - Julian Baldwin
Happy birthday! I lost my fake id (which I had since age 15) three months before my 21st, so I was itching to go out... ;-) - Mitchell Tsai
i love when i find out that bloggers i like a lot are younger than me (27). inspires me to get off my ass more and work harder. happy birthday dude. when i turned 21, i was in italy playing cure songs on guitar with some random italian guys. hope yr day is as memorable. - mike
Thanks again everyone, the night is starting and I don't think I'll be in any condition to talk on FF later tonight.. talk to you all tomorrow :^ ) - Julian Baldwin
ببم جان تولدت مبارک باشه....صد سال زنده باشی////Happy birthday! - taher
