Annotations service released | CDS news Add comments to SIMBAD objects! “…not intended to supersede email support via question@simbad, but to improve the contents of SIMBAD contents and the level of interaction between CDS staff and SIMBAD users.” (via August Muench.)
Mendeley v0.9.6.1 released | Mendeley Blog This sounds potentially useful for our reading group: “PDF annotations are now synchronized with Mendeley Web. In shared collections multiple users can add notes or highlights to documents.”
Why Buzz Beats Twitter, Facebook, and Friendfeed | Search Engine Journal This is the best post I’ve seen that reflects the way most adults use these sites. Buzz has lots of potential, but I’m waiting for 1) more customization and 2) real-time updates from Twitter and Google Reader rather than the delayed clumps we’re getting now.
Interview with the creator of the Apple startup sound | TUAW The musical history of the startup chime, its use in Wall-E, the Beatles lawsuit, and the great story behind “sosumi.” Video begins in Dutch but ~10min interview is in English.
Wow! SIMBAD comments. I can’t tell you how many guide stars people have tried to use only to find that they are binary. Now something can be done with that information!! I wonder what other kind of information people might find useful (e.g. guide star brightness?). This content won’t be published/refereed; how does that impact its trustworthiness?
MarshallMar 5, 2010 @ 16:52
Jessica – they’re requiring commenters to authenticate with user accounts of some kind. So presumably they can track edit histories, build up trustworthiness metrics for authors, etc.
Wikipedia for the sky?
MarshallMar 5, 2010 @ 17:13
And yes, having just experimented with it and created my first annotation, it does tag things with user accounts and names. So that’s good.
Also note that as of right now, this only seems to be available at the master Simbad site in France, and has not yet propagated to the US mirror.
(Also, and unrelatedly: Hey, IDL 8.0 actually sounds like a pretty nice update! Gonna make the IDL vs. Python debate a lot more interesting, I suspect.)
Wow! SIMBAD comments. I can’t tell you how many guide stars people have tried to use only to find that they are binary. Now something can be done with that information!! I wonder what other kind of information people might find useful (e.g. guide star brightness?). This content won’t be published/refereed; how does that impact its trustworthiness?
Jessica – they’re requiring commenters to authenticate with user accounts of some kind. So presumably they can track edit histories, build up trustworthiness metrics for authors, etc.
Wikipedia for the sky?
And yes, having just experimented with it and created my first annotation, it does tag things with user accounts and names. So that’s good.
Also note that as of right now, this only seems to be available at the master Simbad site in France, and has not yet propagated to the US mirror.
(Also, and unrelatedly: Hey, IDL 8.0 actually sounds like a pretty nice update! Gonna make the IDL vs. Python debate a lot more interesting, I suspect.)