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Academia.edu Raises $1.6 Million
- lanstein 16y agoExcuse my ignorance, but how did they get a .edu?
- jasonlbaptiste 16y agomy guess is that they purchased a grandfathered in .edu .
- halo 16y agoIt was almost certainly registered before they tightened the restrictions on registration, and the current owners bought it from them.
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- RichardPrice 16y agoOne of our subsidaries registered it before 2001, when there were no restrictions.
- benl 16y agoAnd we're hiring: http://www.academia.edu/jobs http://www.academia.edu/jobs We're based in downtown SF and we're looking for engineers to help us build a great product for researchers.
- paulfang 16y agoThey have Hawking, Dawkins, Chomsky, Krugman on board already as scientists. Wow.
- mhartl 16y agoI'm pretty sure that list sums to zero, though.
- snewe 16y agoThis could be very helpful, so long as academics maintain their profiles. I currently use an ad-hoc system of Google Reader's "check if webpage changed" functionality to check for new papers in my fields of interest. For economics, these are listed on pages like: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/JELJOUR_Results.cfm?code=M13 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/JELJOUR_Results.cfm?code=M13 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/JELJOUR_Results.cfm?code=G24 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/JELJOUR_Results.cfm?code=G24 which gives an ugly summary of updates to non-RSS friendly websites. Academia.edu appears to require that 1. Authors sign up 2. Authors also update their profiles with their new research My experience suggests this will be difficult for econ: I repeated the Google readers process for the active authors in my field. Google tracks their "Working Papers" pages for updates and lets me know when they add a paper (or change a font!) For the two dozen authors I track, only one has updated their page in the last two months.
- jplewicke 16y agoI'm not sure about field-wide RSS feeds, but SSRN does have author-specific RSS feeds like http://www.ssrn.com/rss/authors/1997/0701/998.rss http://www.ssrn.com/rss/authors/1997/0701/998.rss for Eugene Fama.
- sketerpot 16y agoI just signed up, and the web site is remarkably slick. Anybody who's made web apps knows how hard it is to make something that just does what it's supposed to as well as this. I especially like the easy integration with GMail, Facebook, and so on. The signup process is a bit long, but I'm not sure if that's a bad thing. Edit: When I selected "Electrical & Computer Engineering" from the drop-down menu of departments, the ampersand got turned into "&". I'm pretty sure this is a bug.
- sonofjanoh 16y agoThere is an alternative venture http://www.ulurn.com http://www.ulurn.com. Not as successful though...
- iskander 16y agoI disagree. I found the interface clunky and the research interest categories were really sloppy (typos, duplicates, inconsistent granularities, etc...). Also, the inability to click on section names during sign up was very frustrating.
- uggedal 16y agoHow did they manage to get the domain name? From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.edu: Starting on October 29, 2001, only post-secondary institutions and organizations that are accredited by an agency on the U.S. Department of Education's list of nationally recognized accrediting agencies are eligible to apply for a edu domain.