Academia.edu launches, a Geni For Researchers

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/16/academiaedu-a-geni-for-researchers/

by immad • 18 years ago

28 9 18 years ago

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river_styx• 18 years ago

How did these guys get a .edu domain? I thought only accredited colleges were allowed register those.

aston• 18 years ago

They've had it for quite a while.

arjunb• 18 years ago

yeah, i think they were grandfathered in. very cool ideas, i hope they do well. their UI seems a bit overcomplicated, though.

www.scilink.com is the only other player i know of sorta in this space (and labmeeting, as mentioned). anything better out there?

kul• 18 years ago

back in the day it was easier to register .edu domains, and they bought it from someone who'd owned it for a long time.

auntjemima• 18 years ago

site's unusably slow (right now)

BenS• 18 years ago

I think that a simple nested list view would be more useful to browse departments. The tree is nice too, but not very practical at the current speed.

bbb• 18 years ago

Yuck. A great reminder why you shouldn't use Flash to build a key navigation element of your site. This particular site is slow, and it behaves in very unexpected ways. Is there any advantage to using Flash in this situation?

quasimojo• 18 years ago

profs are just like you, they want to scope out hot chicks...which is why they will continue to use fb

Academia.edu launches, a Geni For Researchers

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