Google Wave
What would science look like if it were invented today?
Mon, 29/06/2009 - 1:59pm | by danielThis is the first of two parts of a guest post for the Euroscientist, the blog of Euroscience.org. Part two is available here.
The Internet represents an opportunity to change this system, one which has created a 300-year-old, collective long-term memory, into something new and more efficient, perhaps adding in a current, collective short-term working memory at the same time. With new online tools, scientists could begin to share techniques, data and ideas online to the benefit of all parties, and the public at large.
Watch this video and then lean back and think how it may change the way you share scientific information
Sun, 31/05/2009 - 12:13am | by danielGoogle plan to release a new tool later this year that allows for interactive sharing of information in a way similar to microblogging services, just more deeply thought through: Google wave. And it (or at least its "lion share", as they put it) is going to be open source, so that software developers can add to or build upon it.
