Blogs? Check. Podcasts? Check. Social Network? Check. Flickr pool? Check. Wait, a Flickr pool?? Out of all of the old-school science journals, Nature has definitely led the pack by making huge strides into the Web 2.0 age - but we never thought we'd find a Flickr pool. Now it's like we know them personally!! We were just peruuusing around the Nature blogs today when we came across the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) Flickr pool on Nascent, the Nature blog about their web technology and science ventures. What's next on the horizon? Believe it or not, Nature has already created its own island in Second Life. This is just. too. much.
NPG has gone totally nuts over the web, in case you can't tell. So what are they drinking? The glasses in the above photo look pretty dry, and the captions on the Flickr photos are scarce, but with a little web sleuthing, we've pieced this much together about the who and what in the photos. In the picture above, there's Gavin Bell (left), technologist and Nature Network developer, and Timo Hannay (right), Director of Web Publishing, goofing it up at the company Christmas party and trying to look like they're having a good time. You can tell Timo works on the business end of things, because he's the only person wearing a white shirt and tie. Below we have Sukhy (Vinder? title?) and Monica (Hoyo? title?), keeping the troops happy by belting out ... whatever. And no Web 2.0 slideshow would be complete without the obligatory photo of a hipster geek - in this case, Ben Lund, product development manager - sitting behind a laptop. Ben won an award in 2005 for his work on Connotea, the science bookmarking site. Go team!
Find more photos of the NPG wild life here at the NPG Flickr slideshow.
Comments (1)
Hey,
I love what you'e doing!
Don't ever change and best of luck.
Raymon W.
Posted by RaymonWazerri | April 20, 2007 8:09 PM
Posted on April 20, 2007 20:09