Author: victorhenning
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An excellent Science Blogging, Soton Open Science Workshop, and Science in the 21st Century Conference Adventure, Part II
Long time no blog, indeed. I had wanted to write more about the numerous workshops and conferences I attended, but I didn’t get around to it because we’ve been very busy here at Mendeley HQ. Among other things, we’re planning a new release of Mendeley Desktop soon. Without giving too much away, it will include…
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An excellent Science Blogging 2008 adventure, Part I
My jetlag is in full swing as I’m writing this from my room at the lovely Walper Terrace Hotel in Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario. The local time is 10pm, but my inner clock (still set to GMT) tells me it’s 3 in the morning, thus lending incredible appeal to the hotel bed behind me. But I’ve decided…
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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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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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