[Air-L] Online social networks for scientists

elw at stderr.org elw at stderr.org
Wed Jan 30 07:40:18 PST 2008


>>  BioMedExperts (http://www.biomedexperts.com) -- the first online 
>> social network of its kind to improve collaboration among researchers 
>> and therefore advance medical science.
>
> I think that Nature's network http://network.nature.com/ probably has a 
> better claim to this title (cheeky since I am sure the people behind 
> biomedexperts knew about it).

And then there are sites like citeulike, which the people at Nature knew 
about as they built their site...

Nothing new under the sun, really... just better PR and bigger hammers 
getting swung around.

--elijah



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