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Academia.edu launches, a Geni For Researchers
- river_styx 18y agoHow did these guys get a .edu domain? I thought only accredited colleges were allowed register those.
- aston 18y agoThey've had it for quite a while.
- arjunb 18y agoyeah, i think they were grandfathered in. very cool ideas, i hope they do well. their UI seems a bit overcomplicated, though. www.scilink.com is the only other player i know of sorta in this space (and labmeeting, as mentioned). anything better out there?
- Alex3917 18y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_databases_and_search_engines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_databases_and_search_e... Of the search engines listed, I think Scopus and Web of Science both compete in the area of linking papers together by citations, but I don't really use either.
- kul 18y agoback in the day it was easier to register .edu domains, and they bought it from someone who'd owned it for a long time.
- auntjemima 18y agosite's unusably slow (right now)
- BenS 18y agoI think that a simple nested list view would be more useful to browse departments. The tree is nice too, but not very practical at the current speed.
- bbb 18y agoYuck. A great reminder why you shouldn't use Flash to build a key navigation element of your site. This particular site is slow, and it behaves in very unexpected ways. Is there any advantage to using Flash in this situation?
- quasimojo 18y agoprofs are just like you, they want to scope out hot chicks...which is why they will continue to use fb