Oracle buys Sun April 20, 2009
Did you listen the great disturbance in the Force?
You remember “The Network is the computer”? (John_Gage)
Video Il Vulture August 31, 2008
published my first video on the Vulturea area on YouTube.
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ResearchGATE - scientific (social) network August 7, 2008
“ResearchGATE is a new free of charge Science 2.0 platform designed for the need of researchers.”
A new, interesting social network platform for Scientists. Basic social functions, but solid and consistent. Stay tuned, they are improving day by day. It seems very promising.
Technorati Tags: Science, research, community, social networking
The grape, Vitis vinifera, is sequenced September 1, 2007
The genome of the Pinot Noir grape (strain: PN 40024), has been sequenced by a french-led (Genoscope, Evry), french-italian group of researchers. It is the first fruit crop genome sequenced!
Read the whole story on Nature
Technorati Tags: Science, Research, Wine, Grape, Vino
BioPerl site is using MediaWiki February 17, 2006
The BioPerl site is since January 2006 based on the MediaWiki software, the one which is used for the famous online encyclopedia WikiPedia.
Technorati Tags: Bioinformatics, BioPerl, Perl
Netvibes - Customizable Web 2.0 homepage solution February 12, 2006
I’ve read about this new concept: customizable web 2.0 homepage solution by netvibes.com. You can add RSS feeds, and other web services to a virtual personal home page using contents from other sites (e.g. Weather forecast for your town, news feeds from on-line journals and from other sites offering their content as RSS feed.
BioPHP - PHP for Bioinformatics
The aim of biophp.org is to share knowledge between bioPHP developers by using a Wiki services.
Technorati Tags: Bioinformatics, PHP, BioPHP
Peekko - Firefox extention to ‘chat a web page’
January 2006 was released Peekko, an extention for Firefox 1.5, which allows to chat with others on the current web page.
The author has set up an IRC server which creates for each domain of a web page automatically a separate channel and logs you in there. It’s cool and a new combination of existing
technologies.
Technorati Tags: Firefox, Extensions, Chat
