Academia.edu Raises $1.6 Million
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Academia.edu Raises $1.6 Million
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#2Excuse my ignorance, but how did they get a .edu?
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#3And we're hiring: 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.
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#4Excuse my ignorance, but how did they get a .edu?
my guess is that they purchased a grandfathered in .edu .
Re: Academia.edu Raises $1.6 Million
#5Excuse my ignorance, but how did they get a .edu?
It was almost certainly registered before they tightened the restrictions on registration, and the current owners bought it from them.
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#6Re: Academia.edu Raises $1.6 Million
#7They have Hawking, Dawkins, Chomsky, Krugman on board already as scientists. Wow.
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#8Excuse my ignorance, but how did they get a .edu?
One of our subsidaries registered it before 2001, when there were no restrictions.
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#9This 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=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.
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#10They have Hawking, Dawkins, Chomsky, Krugman on board already as scientists. Wow.
I'm pretty sure that list sums to zero, though.