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By: The Far Edge » Blog Archive » Professional Network ResearchGate Is A LinkedIn For Scientists

Sat, 16 May 2009 21:38:13 +0000

[...] a social network for scientists is not a revolutionary idea—Academia.edu, Ologeez, and Lab Meeting are all startups that have developed variations of communities for [...]

By: Professional Network ResearchGate Is A LinkedIn For Scientists | The Scripts Zone

Fri, 15 May 2009 09:49:07 +0000

[...] a social network for scientists is not a revolutionary idea—Academia.edu, Ologeez, and Lab Meeting are all startups that have developed variations of communities for [...]

By: Professional Network ResearchGate Is A LinkedIn For Scientists | The Scripts Zone

Fri, 15 May 2009 09:49:07 +0000

[...] a social network for scientists is not a revolutionary idea—Academia.edu, Ologeez, and Lab Meeting are all startups that have developed variations of communities for [...]

By: Professional Network ResearchGate Is A LinkedIn For Scientists | The Good NET Guide

Fri, 15 May 2009 00:44:59 +0000

[...] a social network for scientists is not a revolutionary idea—Academia.edu, Ologeez, and Lab Meeting are all startups that have developed variations of communities for [...]

By: Trade Jim News » Professional Network ResearchGate Is A LinkedIn For Scientists

Thu, 14 May 2009 23:31:22 +0000

[...] a social network for scientists is not a revolutionary idea—Academia.edu, Ologeez, and Lab Meeting are all startups that have developed variations of communities for [...]

By: Professional Network ResearchGate Is The LinkedIn For Scientists

Professional Network ResearchGate Is The LinkedIn For Scientists — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:04:05 +0000

[...] a social network for scientists is not a revolutionary idea—Academia.edu, Ologeez, and Lab Meeting are all startups that have developed variations of communities for [...]

By: Mendeley Snags $2 Million In Early-Stage Funding For Research Paper Management Tool

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:44:44 +0000

[...] we likened to a “social network for scientists”), Academia.edu (which we likened to a “Geni for researchers”) and [...]

By: Indiana University researchers launch social networking and research management tool for scientists | Educationload.com

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:38:09 +0000

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Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:59:54 +0000

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By: Martin George › Academia.edu - Social Networking for Academics

Martin George › Academia.edu - Social Networking for Academics — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:22:12 +0000

[...] importantly, it seems odd (and bad practice) to allow one’s work to be hosted by a privately-owned start-up. Disseminated, yes; hosted, no. ‹ Research Assessment Exercise 2008 © MG [...]

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selby — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:59:36 +0000

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Geni for companies (org chart wiki) « Triple T Blog — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:20:17 +0000

[...] academic.edu is new start-up, something in between Facebook for professors and PAs and Geni. They take on this idea but apply to the narrow field of academia. Why not extend it beyond that, to the entire Corporate [...]

By: HOWZAT media Blog: thoughts, news and ramblings » Academics of the world! Unite!

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:04:27 +0000

[...] The site has only recently launched and is already creating a frisson of excitement in California where it is based: http://www.tech...or-researchers/ [...]

By: Valentin

Valentin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:23:58 +0000

A graph database containing all major institutions, researchers, publications, events and all the connections (positions, collaborations, citations, …) between them would be a true game-changer for academia. I’m afraid we won’t see anything like that anytime soon.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:42:35 +0000

Neat idea, pity about the implementation

1) Clunky interface
2) Won’t actually let me sign up, I go through the process and then it tells me there is an error and they will do something about it. Very informative.

By: Siqi

Siqi — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:19:39 +0000

Richard Price is the man – and academia.edu looks sharp as hell. Congratulations Richard.

By: dak

dak — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:51:48 +0000

I’ve done a ton of work in this area. I believe that simple social networks tailored for academia make sense. Faculty have a drastically different set of requirements and concerns than users of Facebook or LinkedIn, and not all of these can be addressed by apps/gadgets or creative use of the existing platforms. These can also be very serious, show-stopper issues: consider the researcher who uses animal subjects, and how you can integrate these lightning rods for controversy into such a system.

So Academia.edu isn’t on the wrong track. But, that said, I think they’ve missed the mark. Frankly, I wonder if they haven’t launched too wide, too soon. The implementation and design strike me as alpha-quality. It’s unpolished, and can be very, very clunky in places. And the functionality just isn’t what I would expect: it looks like a standard social network with a few unimportant concessions to academics. As it stands, I would be (happily) surprised to see faculty (in particular) adopt it in any significant numbers. But, I’ll keep my eye on it, and I sincerely wish them the best.

By: Dasher

Dasher — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:21:18 +0000

Is there some open source software for building trees such as this? Any info is appreciated. Thank you.

By: Paula Hane

Paula Hane — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:38:07 +0000

For a discussion of additional sites and services, see the NewsLink Spotlight article posted on Sept 4, 2008: “Research Sharing Gets New Tools and Goes Trendy,” http://newsbrea...ArticleId=50584.

By: James Kent

James Kent — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:28:39 +0000

Richard is one of the smartest people I know. If an academic-centric social network will succeed, it’ll be this one. Congrats on the TC post.

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Web 2.0 Sammelalbum - Web2Null - Academia.edu — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:55:38 +0000

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KillerStartups.com - Academia.edu - Where Scholars Meet — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:52:12 +0000

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By: Marty Spencer

Marty Spencer — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:31:49 +0000

No, you are not mistaken at all, I looked into it recently… They must have the right friends in the right places!

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:29:53 +0000

SciLink has already done this, with their “Tree of Science.” And they already have significant uptake and traffic.

By: Wood

Wood — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:21:15 +0000

Seems like a useful idea to me. I don’t think the “yet another facebook” comments above make any sense — if academia.edu can focus on connecting researchers and helping them keep up to date on each others work than that will be a valuable service.

About the *.edu domain — I didn’t think this was legal either, but aparently all domain names registered prior to 2001 were allowed to keep their names. Looks like the name was first registered in 1999, so they are “grandfathered in”.