If you'd rather take it straight to email, you can email me at the address listed here: http://ouroboros.wordpress.com/about... - Chris Patil

And by the way, this is for a journal, not my blog. - Chris Patil

example: http://tinyurl.com/63vurc - Pierre Lindenbaum

Thanks Pierre. I will definitely follow up with the people involved in that thread. Keep 'em coming, folks! - Chris Patil

I'm not sure this counts but the biogang (http://biogang.openwetware.org/) was sort of founded/created via Twitter/FriendFeed interactions. Lots of projects there. Also, the bioinformatics survey was also propelled by T/FF if I recall. - Ricardo Vidal

Jean-Claude Bradley started a spreadsheet where he wrote this kind of information : https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc... - Pierre Lindenbaum

See also this post: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Pierre Lindenbaum

This is really amazing, you guys. Thank you. JC, the spreadsheet is incredible. - Chris Patil

There are so many examples on discussion boards like ScientistSolutions, Molecular Station, etc. (Disclaimer, I work for SSI). I could give a you a list of at least 50 specific threads on our site. Here's a recent favorite http://www.scientistsolutions.com/t8853-h... - Rusty Bishop

I just added to the spreadsheet re: the help I got with CSV munging shell scripts earlier. Would discovery of papers through social bookmarking be considered collaborative science? - Mr. Gunn

@Mr. Gunn - no, i don't think so. Collaboration suppose to be productive - if discussion about papers within the group brought all participants to consensus that could be collaboration via social bookmarking with discussions. But bookmarking sites don't provide discussions. Even they would, it will take for a long while for scientists to start discuss about papers online - simple online collaboration. My thoughts also here - http://hematopoiesis.info/2009... - Alexey

Chris - Carmen Drahl made a nice video showing how FriendFeed is used to collaborate with scientists (second vid on the right) http://pubs.acs.org/cen... - Jean-Claude Bradley

Pierre - thanks for posting the spreadsheet - it is nice to see these little projects get re-use - Jean-Claude Bradley

Concretely, the References Wanted room (http://friendfeed.com/rooms...) has really been useful in writing up articles so I can rapidly get my hands on hard-to-come by references in journals to which my institution does not subscribe. But I'm not sure this is a great thing to bring up in your article, except in a vague way; we're not quite clear which side of the law participating re-distributors are on (fair use, or not?) It's not quite the same as discovering papers as per Mr. Gunn. - Heather

Sci-Mate is a very recently opened collaboration to develop Web 2.0 tools for the benefit of researchers. http://www.sci-mate.org/ - Christopher Dyer

Check out: http://www.dental.pitt.edu/informa... - Heiko Spallek

I have recently started a project shared on a wiki + google code + zotero but it is still early days http://openwetware.org/wiki... - Pedro Beltrao

open notebook science should qualify, thinking about usefulchem as example of wiki and google spreadsheets like http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc... - the list on wikipedia is helpful http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Mike Chelen

I Added the GeneWiki paper in Jean-Claude's spreadsheet https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc... - Pierre Lindenbaum

Chris - if you are asking for a more technical answer - UsefulChem and the ONSchallenge run mainly on a combination of wiki/blog/Google Spreadsheets - Jean-Claude Bradley

Pierre - thanks for the addition - Jean-Claude Bradley

Maybe this is where Google Wave will turn out to be useful once we all realise that we're not flying around Beginners Island naked like in Second Life ;-) - Sally Church

Sally - do you have a link to the island where everyone flies around naked? Sounds like fun :) - Jean-Claude Bradley

Of course I'm naked but my feline fur hides that pretty well - Jean-Claude Bradley