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Tell us what we should develop next on Nature Network
Corie Lok
Wednesday, 14 February 2007 20:06 UTC
What new features do you want us to create for you on Nature Network? Post any ideas here. This is meant to be your site!
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Editing posts
Ok, I am switching from vision to fine detail, but it would be nice to be able to edit my posts. Not that I want to change anything I have said above right now, but I am aware that now that I have said this or that I cannot easily retract it by a simple edit.
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- more RSS feeds ( new members, new groups…)
- geolocalization (exporting my network to KML/GoogleEarth)
- merge this service with connotea.
- exporting my profile/network to foafPierre
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maybe you nature network can collaborate with googles “orkut” to provide a better network, using the combinded strenghts of both teams…
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“How about being able to leave messages for people” -Martin Dove
I think that this would be excellent!
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Integration with Social Bookmarking Sites
Such as del.icio.us. I would just love to be able to tag a webpage with ‘nnf:whats-next’. It would be trivial for Nature Network to follow my del.icio.us latest bookmarks, and grep for something that matches ‘nnf:’ for forums and ‘nng:’ for groups. This is much like the del.icio.us system uses itself for sharing bookmarks with friends.
The requirements on NN side, would just be that a user can add his del.icio.us account name, and that the NN system would poll the RSS feed for my latest new bookmarks, grep for links for NN, and post them to the relevant NN group or NN forum, which actually will need ‘no space’ shortnames.
Obviously, I can post the website manually too, but that would require duplicate efforts, and with the growth of all these social sites, we need to automate things as much as possible. No new solutions, just integrate.
Del.icio.us is just an example, and similar things can be done for many other systems.
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Browsing groups A-Z
I could not find a way to browse all available groups A-Z, to pick the groups I am interested in.
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Lots of good ideas up above, here are a few of my own, sorry if they overlap with others!
1) Journal article networking within Nature Network. There is a lot of that kind of thing, say, in the “Faculty of 1000” networking and Connotea, but it’d be great to include a central db of recommended or accessed articles (keyed on doi would likely be best). Half of my science networking (beyond social networking) with other scientists includes talking about recent research.
2) Grants and Program Announcements blog/board/whatever.
3) Company and Institute co-op/graduate student internship announcement board, public blog, or DB. Network can further help students.
4) Boston-area seminar/talk/etc/ announcement blog and mailing list. There are a few of these that are institute-specific but it’d be nice to have them cross over into one particular blog or mailing list or space.
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RSS feeds so that you can tell what activity there has been in your network without having to log on all the time.
In fact, RSS feeds everywhere.
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Thanks everyone, great ideas. Keep ‘em coming. We’re putting the ideas on our list of new things to consider.
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Timestamps on the network snapshot ‘Bob posted to such and such a forum 4 hours ago’.
A ‘post reply’ button at the bottom of threads so that you can reply as soon as you’ve finished reading them would be handy, too.
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