Power of the Crowd

Tell me, when was the last time you discovered a new astronomical phenonemon? Helped curing AIDS? Caught a British Member of Parliament red-handed in claiming money for his new duck house? Most likely, your answer is ‘never’ and you feel that these jobs are reserved for persons more suitable for the job, like clever scientists [...]

Mendeley: Scientists got their own iTunes

Before I was using iTunes, organizing my music had to be done by hand. I created folders and subfolders that felt superficial and inaccurate: should that new Franz Ferdinand album go to  /Alternative/Britpop, or was /Rock/2000s a better place? I created and maintained playlists manually in Winamp. Needless to say, this took a lot of [...]

Financial bliss or foolishness?

That’s it, I’ve taken the next step. After my daily activities and social information have found a place online , the transaction information of my bank account also found its place on the internet. The clever company that won my confidence? Yunoo. Yunoo is a startup company that launched in March. Basically, Yunoo provides insight into [...]