Month: August 2008
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Putting the roof terrace to good use
We had comparatively nice weather (i.e., it didn’t rain) in London yesterday – so we seized the chance and organised a Mendeley team BBQ on the roof terrace of our office! Luckily for us, we didn’t set the building on fire, and no one fell off the roof. Here are some impressions: Paul being happy…
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A new Knight joins Mendeley's round table
We are proud to introduce Robert Knight – yet another boost to our development team. It’s not that we didn’t enjoy the company of a certain other knight who said “Ni” (and from whom we rented our previous office): Still, we think Robert is a much better fit to our team. Ni! —— Robert Knight…
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PRESS RELEASE: Research-Sharing Start-Up Mendeley Launches with Support of Last.fm Chairman and Skype's Former Founding Engineers
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 13, 2008 Mendeley develops software for managing and sharing research papers as well as a website for discovering research trends and connecting to like-minded academics. The founders’ vision to create a “Last.fm for research” excited Skype’s former founding engineers, who became investors, and former Last.fm executive chairman Stefan Glänzer, who is…
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Broken keyboard = hilarious dialogue
Today in our web developer Skype chat: Paul, Falk (brother-in-law of Paul) and Pankaj (freelance database expert). Paul Föckler, 10:46am: I added Pankaj to our web chat Falk Kühnel, 10:46am: hiankaj Falk Kühnel, 10:47am: damn, my eybor is bron i guess Cracks me up!
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The long night of bugfixing and other mysterious phenomena
Let’s get the bad news out of the way first. I won’t be able to travel to the AMA Summer Conference. At this time tomorrow, I should have been at the beach of San Diego with Michael and Thorsten and a nice cold beer, but it was not to be. My cough from the viral…
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