I was one of the Student Finalists at AMIA 2008 this year, and I was very impressed by some of the other finalist presentations. One of my favorites was by Steven Bedrick at OHSU. He wrote a Facebook application called Medline Publications. The idea is that each user lists their Medline publications for the app. The app then finds out who among your friends has authored related publications, using MeSH terms from your articles to determine what your interests are.
Admittedly, if you are not a biomedical academic this is of limited utility. (I only have authored one article in Medline.) However, it’s easy to extend the concept to include articles you have read or are interested in. Social applications like this one that highlight previously unseen commonalities help demonstrate the power of a social network.
Bedrick, S., Sittig, D.F. (2008) “A Scientific Collaboration Tool Built on the Facebook Platform” American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium Proceedings (In Press)
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