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Even though scientists created this glorious internet you see before you, current scientific practice is still based more on publishing academic papers than sharing ideas online. As one of the more prominent proponents of the open web, Mozilla stepped in to offer a solution with a new open science initiative called Science Lab. It’s designed to bridge the gap between the open web community and researchers so that they can share ideas, tools and best practices on how the web can be used to solve problems and improve research techniques. Led by Kaitlin Thaney, a long-time open science advocate, the Lab will initially focus on bringing digital literacy to the scientific community with the help of Software Carpentry, a program that teaches basic computer skills to researchers. From there, the group hopes to foster a global conversation on how to encourage the use of the web in science. It’s great to see that the internet has a lot more to offer the field than just Foursquare check-ins.
[Image credit: Håkan Dahlström, Flickr]
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Source: The Mozilla Blog, Mozilla Science Lab, Kaitlin Thaney
Jun 14
Kansas City resident Nick LeGrande, who is 13 years old, threw out the ceremonial first pitch before an Oakland Athletics vs. New York Yankees game earlier this week. What made it so special is that the pitch was thrown from 1,800 miles away using a combination between a robotic pitching machine and Google Fiber. LeGrande
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Habitual Foursquare users don’t have much context for their check-ins — it’s easy for them to track their favorite haunts, but not their long-term trends. The just-launched Foursquare Time Machine could help draw those missing connections, however. Sign in and it creates a map-based timeline of each and every check-in, color-coded by its nature. While the superficial result is a very pretty light cluster, it’s surprisingly functional underneath: members can see their exact check-in times, their favorite days of the week and their most active periods. Naturally, there’s also an option to share the stats with others. Time Machine is already popular enough that it’s struggling to cope with the early demand, but the functioning site should be worth visiting for the (eventual) trip down memory lane.
Filed under: Internet
Via: Foursquare Blog
Source: Foursquare Time Machine
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Apple unveils iWork for iCloud
Posted in: Today's Chili
iWork has been a traditional software suite ever since it first launched (the brief availability of iWork.com notwithstanding), but Apple is bringing it to the web in earnest today by revealing iWork for iCloud. The suite includes Keynote, Numbers and Pages, and each of the web apps preserves many of the same real-time editing features as its iOS and Mac counterparts. The collection officially supports Chrome, Internet Explorer and (logically) Safari, although you’ll likely be waiting awhile to try them: only developers get an iWork beta today, and a public beta is due later this year.
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Gallery: WWDC 2013: iWork for iCloud
Source: Apple
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