It’s been a week since we first went live and for some reason, it seems like ages ago. I’ve caught up on my sleep (sort of) and we are now getting down to business, fixing bugs, improving existing features and developing new ones.
On deck to come online in the next several weeks are discussion forums so that you can talk with each other about whatever issues interest you. And we’re working on a Boston science jobs listing as well. So stay tuned and in the meantime, please keep checking out the events, news and blogs!
If you have suggestions for new features, or how to fix existing ones, email them to nnbfeedback at boston.nature.com.
Hi Corie,
First of all , thank you for NNB. As a regular user of LinkedIn, I expected find such a social network for scientists. Now, you must give me reasons to adopt this new site and to invite my contacts there :-). I already sent a few suggestions to nnbfeedback but I got no response.
Of course, I understand that NNB is still a beta version but here are a few requests/suggestions:
Remove the word ‘Boston’ from NNB :)Merge NNB with connotea.
Add RSS feeds for events,blog,profiles…Make the Ruby code open-source
Geo-tag users and eventsadd a (geotagged) ‘job’ section
Adding tags to event, jobsHandling RSS from external blogs
Forms for searching more accessible.create a source of event using the iCal format
generate FOAFexplore my network by degree of separation.
use microformatmy contribution,
Best,
Pierre.
Allow HTML in comments and display a preview ! :-)
Hi Pierre
I’m Gavin, I’m sort of the architect for NN.
We have lots of those in the pipeline, but some of them exist already.
RSS feeds for individual bloggers, events and news exists
You can add tags to events
iCal for events exists too and microformats for events too
Your other ideas we’ll add to the backlog.
thanks for the feedback
Gavin
Pierre – you should find that all events are marked up on both events pages and the home page in the hCalendar microformat. Profile pages are also marked up as hCard, though as you need to be in someone’s network to even have a chance of seeing their contact details, this is not quite as useful. Still, nice that the semantic wrapping is there, so to speak!
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