Linkedin and Social Media is ruining my people- feeble attempts to fight of Social Media and the Compliance nightmare

There has been a flurry of discussion around social media and its implication in the last few  months , So I thought it would be good to have some of these arguments laid out in one single post. Social Media has entered every business and industry even, inside the US Intelligence Community, who sorted out [...]

Myth=My sales people are wasting valuable time on Linkedin when they should be selling, Reality= Social Networking helps in Sales -Top execs say they are influenced by social networks

“My sales people are wasting valuable time on Facebook and Linkedin when they should be selling”: Now thats what most sales managers would say. I know thats true , I have irritated fare share of my managers by using social media to create and close sales and in lead generation. And I continue to do [...]

FDA Webinar Drug Marketing and Advertising Are You Prepared for the Challenges of Social Media?

Since the FDA cracked down on social media marketing and online advertising, drugmakers have been walking on eggshells. A key FDA meeting is scheduled for Nov. 12-13. Read on … Drug Marketing and Advertising Are You Prepared for the Challenges of Social Media? An FDAnews Webinar Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 • 11:00 a.m. — 12:30 [...]

Connect the physical world with digital information- Indian scientist work in MIT Media Lab

A PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s famed Media Lab, Mr Pranav Mistry, 28, has come a long way from being the president of the Young Scientists Club at hometown, Palanpur, in northern Gujarat, India ‘SixthSense’ is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets [...]

Twittering Clinical Trials!

Healthcare IT start-up TrialX has launched an application that allows the 4 million to 6 million (and growing) Twitter users to find clinical trials. Users can query (tweet) TrialX using the keywords . In about a minute, says TrialX, you’ll receive a reply tweet with a tinyurl link to the TrialX page containing matching trials. [...]

What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?

from the Google Blogoscope. Fun apart I think the new Windows Live Mail (the Outlook style desktop software) is a good tool especially with its Feed Reader features and windows common feed list. Equally good is the Attensa Feed reader

Medicine OnDemand

Move over the TeleMedicine and the usual chutzpah, Yesd Web2.0 is a bubble thats going to burst, but in healthcare field strangled by Insurannce companies, web2.0 is giving a whiff of relief to some people atleast , How!  WebMD ,MayoClinic ,eMedTV are few site that offers to help you through videos, blogs and other channels Officials at the Department of Health [...]

Final week to register for 2007 Emerging Technology Awards

Final week to register for 2007 Emerging Technology Awards Join the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal as we honor the companies on the forefront of technology and celebrate those who are leading the way in innovation and entrepreneurship at the 2007 Emerging Technology Awards. Reserve your spot now! Registration deadline is Friday, October 26, 2007. [...]

Twine is released in Web2.0 summit – the web3.0 application funded by Microsoft founder

Radar Networks announced an invitation-only beta test of its new “semantic web” application, Twine. Today, at the Web 2.0 Summit, Twine provides a smarter way for people to leverage and contribute to the combined brainpower of their relationships. “We call this ‘knowledge networking,’” said Radar Networks Founder and CEO Nova Spivack. “It’s the next evolution [...]

Scholarly publishers throws out Microsoft

After PLOS nature its the turn of microsoft, Life science researchers are in no mood to relent to industry’s interests. Microsoft’s latest Word release has caused chaos in scholarly publishing circles. Submit a paper to, the journal Nature in Word 2007, and you will face the following warning: ‘We currently cannot accept files saved in [...]

Laying with the Lions

The following article is one of the best I just came across which talkes about advantages of better collaboration in pharma companies.   The study and articles are on Act Magazine website  

Microsoft accelerates free access to journals

Information technology company Microsoft will give technical assistance to enhance access to online research for scientists, thats when most of the publishers of scientific journals are fighting against Open Access journals. Take a look at the blog  on the subject by  Greg at nodalpoint Announced at a meeting in Washington in July Representatives from the [...]

How Many Scientists Does it Take To Fix a Gene?

The headline of the article that appeared in a news paper was interesting, I thought I will use the same headline to right about it. The original text of the article can be read at cityonHillPress While reading the article I also came thougth its worth to have a look at the book Building Biotechnology  [...]

From science to business

It takes upto to 15 years and multimillion  dollar investments  to patent and market one successful drug for pharmaceutical and biotech industry. Trying to make the sure that the scientists receive the best R&D support possible companies have looked at outsourcing and insourcing and everything else. And the new boy in the buzz world is [...]

Scientific Blogging Names David Houle As Strategic Advisor

  NewswireToday – /newswire/ – Folsom, CA, United States, 06/06/2007 – David Houle, media executive responsible for branding MTV, VH1 and CNN Headline News, has joined Science 2.0 start-up ScientificBlogging.com as a strategic advisor to handle marketing and corporate communications. “The explosive growth of Web 2.0 and blogging has created a lot of content but [...]

Data sharing policies at 10 journals- blog of the week

Heather Piwowar  blogging at ReseacrhRemix made a post on Data sharing policies at 10 selected journals.  general science (Nature and Science), medicine (JAMA and NEJM), oncology (JCO and Cancer), genetics (Human Molecular Genetics and PLoS Computational Biology), and bioinformatics (Bioinformatics and BMC Bioinformatics). she has published a spreadsheet comparing the results at http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pdheCmaT42j62B-a7sx0BRA

Science and Genetics -The Hollywood Connection

  I thought of actually righting about presence of genetics genomics and biology in Hollywood and popular entertainment and books, here is a collection of blogs and websites on the topic Prestigious journal makes science sexy again- Scientific American Science of TV impure but Cool – Expert Voice Tv science Best science fiction Movies – [...]

Science on TV: Impure But Cool

 Whether You lik real science or Hollywood science scientists are latest it thing on silver screen. with glammer or not they make it interesting for a many people, wel ofcourse not without mistakes. We al have seen atleast one episode of 24, ER, and so on so on. Scientist has an article on Holyywoods take [...]

Errors in DNA database

The exciting news of google or its benefactor investing in genomics companya and google founders earlier enthusiasm to offer its billion dollar power for genomics indutsry, has produced a mixed responses. I agree with Hsiens post that we should welcome the move I guess its worthwhile to know why its better if google does so , The [...]

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