Month: November 2009
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Where did Mendeley go?
Happy Thanksgiving: Around 5pm yesterday Mendeley services ceased when all of our servers went offline simultaneously; we quickly realised that something was very wrong with our connection to them and this was confirmed by our hosting provider’s customer service calling us to let us know. The details are not completely clear at the moment however…
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Mendeley Desktop v0.9.5 Preview Update
Hello – I’d like to give you a quick update on Mendeley Desktop as we work our way towards a ‘1.0’ release. We’ve been focusing on stability, making Mendeley easier to use and have improved collaborative working amongst other issues. To get feedback on our work in progress, we publish ‘development preview’ versions every few…
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From Climax Control Gel to German Shepherd Dogs: The Top 5 Misspellings of Mendeley
Back during the conceptual phase of the service, Jan, Paul, and Victor were thinking about what to call their product. The working name at the time was “Literacula”, because it sucked the metadata right out of PDFs. While this was a descriptive name, it was eventually decided that it was far too silly. No one…
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Nominate Mendeley as Best International Startup at The Crunchies 2009!
It’s the Crunchie Awards season again, and you can help us get on the shortlist for Best International Startup! Just click this badge and submit the nomination on the Crunchies page: http://crunchies2009.techcrunch.com/embed?ODpNZW5kZWxleQ== If we get nominated, everybody who voted for us can come to our office and get a kiss from our development team. If…
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