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endtwist- Adding some chat bots to the demo instead of linking anonymous users could solve this problem. http://www.alicebot.org/downloads/programs.html

I know some angels in Chicago that are interested in starting an incubator program focusing on translational medicine startups. They have contacts and experience on the regulatory/testing end. Not sure what market you are specifically interested in, but feel free to email me.

I really enjoyed Isaacson's "Einstein: His Life and Universe".

Genealogy of Rock/Pop Music http://www.historyshots.com/Rockmusic/index.cfm

DNA Portrait http://www.dna11.com/

Fotoflōts of your own pictures http://fotoflot.com/

This is my favorite version of vim on OS X. It uses Cocoa and is fast. There's a pre-built .app in the tarball on that site and a script to launch macvim from the command line.

It's like software. If you cleanly separate the front-end and back-end it's very easy to tune and swap out the back-end without the user noticing.

I'd be interested to hear more about your b'more startup. Link or email?

I'm inspired by his other works too

http://philross.org/ross/index.php?kind0

http://philross.org/ross/index.php?kind040

There was a rumor that Google would host scientific data

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/google-to-provi.h...

I am not sure if this is true or what the status is.

Open Data Commons has an interesting license for open datasets

http://www.opendatacommons.org

There's a Python wrapper to the C++ API floating around too

http://sctrading.blogspot.com/2008/03/opentick-python-api.ht...

Their main website is also interesting

http://www.textmap.com

I agree with Tufte's general point that the problem with all slide based presentation tools is low information resolution.

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html

Some presentation suggestions can be found here:

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0...

I tend to only put figures and equations with the necessary explanatory notes in my presentations and discuss the rest. But creating paper handouts as Tufte usually suggests would still probably be more effective, since your audience has something physical to take home.

I think a mind map presentation tool with infinite zoom and pan could be an interesting presentation tool. Something like a high-resolution poster that you navigate in a presentation. It could be distracting to the presenter though.

I am wondering the same. I have a lot of SciPy and NetworkX based simulation code I have been meaning to plug into web interfaces. This could be extremely useful for academic research.

Are there any interesting examples of websites out there that use infinite zoom as a layout for lots of different content like Blaise Aguera y Arca demonstrates around 1:52? Zooming into a picture cloud, zooming into a timeline then blog entries, zooming into a cv then individual project page, etc.