Created by EMBO in February 2004, the consultancy offers a series of searchable databases pointing European life scientists to sources of funding, training, jobs, and possible collaborators, useful for those wanting to stay put as well as those on the move.
I'll reduce the length and breadth of my life into a searchable, geo-tagged nugget.
Included in its Life Science Employer Directory are links to over 600 U.K. companies that employ life science graduates, searchable by company name, location, sector, and key word.
The update will also include changes to simplify and expand Spotify's messaging system, again, adding social functionality to a product that started life as simply a searchable music library.
Life Circles allows you to create a free searchable public space to display your skills, bio, beliefs and contact information for your clients that use Life Circles.
The ability to search this data as searchable (i.e. machine readable) information breathes new life into these wonderful historical documents by expanding their use in a wider, linked-data universe.
Turns (myturningpoint.com) and Random Access Memory (randomaccessmemory.org), for example, collect stories about crucial life moments and make them accessible through a searchable database.
The letter is among 5,000 searchable documents from the first 44 years of Einstein's life, which go online free on Friday in their original German and in English translation.
It lacks the grand ambition of Facebook's last major products: Graph Search, which aims to eventually make practically everything ever posted to Facebook searchable, and Timeline, a complete visual history of a user's life, from birth to death.
As early as 1945, the American engineer and inventor Vannevar Bush described the potentials of a hypothetical system he dubbed "Memex": a single device within which a compressed, searchable form of all the records and communications in someone's life could be stored.
