Open social/interest network for science & scholarship. Discussion thread & prototyping project started by @tmccormick.
Palo Alto, California
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RT @Impactstory: Can scholars build a viable alternative to Twitter that addresses researchers’ needs? @tmccormick youtube.com/watch?v=yPQwWUwi…
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Alphabet should just buy Twitter, reopen the APIs, and allow it to be the public utility it wants to be. Let it be part of the stack.
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@LouWoodley consider for @Trelliscience ideas from @SocSchol of developing a universal scicom interest-graph/social network tool.
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@LouWoodley what say, Lou, @Trelliscience @SocSchol prototype/envisioning? could be beginning of a great adventure.. c/@ThomasArildsen
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@ThomasArildsen @social_sjs great, hope that goes well. I think something like @SocSchol can still happen; various parties like..
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@ThomasArildsen @SocSchol didn't get needed funding soon enough. Pieces/ideas still there to work with, though.
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@sama theres a lot to build on eg @AppDotNet, #ostatus, StatusNet, @SocSchol. Replacing Twtr a key media, market, public need. #OpenTwitter
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tempted to write a YC RFS for a successor to Twitter. even with the network effect, this doesn't feel like the last company in the space. – at San Francisco, CA
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@petersims I agree, imo Twitter under @dickc seems to be squandering vision & oppty of open-channel media.
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@Jason +1 #NiceNet. Possible starting pts/models: @AppDotNet now open-source; @SocSchol project to build open scholarly intrst-graph network
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@LouWoodley “If we created #scholcom infrastructure from scratch..”: @SocSchol an effort to define/prototype a social/msging spine. #scicomm
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@dlknowles @michaelbhaskar “much UK jrnlsm is commentary abt stuff on Twtr”: good pt. Phaps we should just build a better Twtr? cf @SocSchol
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@LouWoodley “secret to low-cost acad blogging: make it natural byproduct of all things acads”: and/or automatic, & twitter etc, cf @SocSchol
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I wrote about an algorithm that predicts truthiness on Twitter, and why shame is the greatest algorithm of all newyorker.com/online/blogs/e…