The startup is called mendeley.com, and is apparently associated with last.fm somehow (through funding maybe)
They have a cross-platform (QT I think) reference manager that uses a SQLite backend and syncs with a web site that has social aspects, including anonymized stats gathering about people's papers ratings, etc. This is interesting. I really like the idea of using the internet to make finding, commenting on, and updating research publications easier, and it's just as important to be able to keep some section of your data private (I think they let you do this.) and local for use in generating publications. Also, they've announced a deal to sync with citeulike: http://www.mendeley.com/blog/2009/02/citeulike-and-mendeley-collaborate/ That's particularly interesting, as it's possible they'd open up an API for other clients. Since I didn't see any OS X screenshots of their app, I can't say for sure but I have my prejudices about cross-platform UI design... -mike -- Michael McCracken UCSD CSE PhD Candidate research: http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/~mmccrack/ misc: http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
