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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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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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An excellent EuroScience adventure, Part I
Well, what can I say! The EuroScience Open Forum 2008 in Barcelona has turned out great so far. Due to its considerable greatitude and excellent greatishness, Jan decided not to let me have all the fun by myself and joined me yesterday. On the downside, the heat and travel stress didn’t exactly help me get…
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