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Re:Academia.edu launches, a Geni For Researchers by river_styx on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @10:07PM (#307786)
How did these guys get a .edu domain? I thought only accredited colleges were allowed register those.
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Re:Academia.edu launches, a Geni For Researchers by kul on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @11:32PM (#307834)
back in the day it was easier to register .edu domains, and they bought it from someone who'd owned it for a long time.
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Re:Academia.edu launches, a Geni For Researchers by aston on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @10:21PM (#307797)
They've had it for quite a while.
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Re:Academia.edu launches, a Geni For Researchers by arjunb on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @10:50PM (#307816)
yeah, 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?

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Re:Academia.edu launches, a Geni For Researchers by Alex3917 on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @11:00PM (#307823)
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.

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Re:Academia.edu launches, a Geni For Researchers by bbb on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @11:51PM (#307851)
Yuck. 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?
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Re:Academia.edu launches, a Geni For Researchers by BenS on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @11:41PM (#307840)
I 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.
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Re:Academia.edu launches, a Geni For Researchers by auntjemima on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @10:09PM (#307787)
site's unusably slow (right now)
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Re:Academia.edu launches, a Geni For Researchers by quasimojo on Thursday September 18, 2008 @01:16AM (#307906)
profs are just like you, they want to scope out hot chicks...which is why they will continue to use fb
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