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POPSHow Last.fm inspired a scientific breakthrough
How does it work? At the basic level, students can "drag and drop" research papers into the site at mendeley.com, which automatically extracts data, keywords, cited references, etc, thereby creating a searchable database and saving countless hours of work. That in itself is great, but now the Last.fm bit kicks in, enabling users to collaborate with researchers around the world, whose existence they might not know about until Mendeley's algorithms find, say, that they are the most-read person in Japan in their niche specialism. You can recommend other people's papers and see how many people are reading yours, which you can't do in Nature and Science. Mendeley says that instead of waiting for papers to be published after a lengthy procedure of acquiring citations, they could move to a regime of "real-time" citations, thereby greatly reducing the time taken for research to be applied in the real world and actually boost economic growth. There are lots of research archives. For the physica
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POPSA Sampling Of These Fast Growing Tech Companies
# Growth Matters: Dailymotion moves you with video # Growth Matters: Dash Navigation helps you get there faster # Growth Matters: Doodle gets your schedule right # Growth Matters: Evernote makes you smarter # Growth Matters: Evite's an invitation to print money # Growth Matters: Ford SYNCs your car with the world # Growth Matters: Gameloft is French for mobile fun # Growth Matters: GeckoGo takes you places you've never been # Growth Matters: Jagex is Europe's PC fun maker # Growth Matters: Kayak.com travels with $200 million in capital # Growth Matters: King.com dominates games of skill online # Growth Matters: Last.fm learns your music and gives you more # Growth Matters: Mister Wong is Europe's social bookmarker # Growth Matters: MocoSpace makes mobile fun and games # Growth Matters: Netlog is Europe's social networking leader # Growth Matters: Netvibes makes Europe more social # Growth Matters: Otto Group is world's second biggest e-commerce company more @ site:
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POPSDeweyMusic "I understand that sifting through that many artists is a bit daunting if you don't know what you're looking for. I've added Genre tags that are pulled from Last.fm to help you find your style, and a search function to help you find exactly what you want. While I look into better options, and as the database grows, let me suggest that you use the "Concerts From Today" tab to narrow down your listening possibilities while browsing. I hope to be adding rating, tagging and commenting functionality soon."
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POPS5 Music Recommendation Services I've tried Musicovery from these and it's quite good. I know people who swear by last.fm. I can't wait to try out the others (except iTunes Genius - which I refuse to use)!
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POPSLastGraph - Visualizing your Music Habits Creates a nice visual overview of your music listening habits via your last.fm account. I added my personal charts as an example. Try the first pdf , it's pretty sweet what this app does. It has several other features, see source .
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