Sunday, December 20, 2009

Science 2.0 in action: Iowa Graduate Student Creates Labspaces.net, a 'Facebook' for the Scientific Community

Labspaces.net is a amusing arrangement advised to advance accurate news, advance and actualize friendships, and anchorage accord in the sciences.

Iowa City, IA -- Social networks such as Facebook and Myspace accept become added accepted with acceptance over the accomplished few years; however, their account has been underappreciated by added communities. An Iowa alum apprentice in Molecular and Cellular Biology is analytic to change that appearance in the accurate association with the absolution of Labspaces.net. Designed as a amusing arrangement for the sciences, Labspaces.net aims to advance accurate news, advance and actualize friendships, and anchorage accord in the sciences by bringing a assorted set of advisers calm in one abode on the internet.

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"Unlike added amusing networks, I like to anticipate of Labspaces as a website with a purpose," said Brian Krueger, who developed the website. "It's not just a time waster, it hosts a advanced array of agreeable which should activation some absorbing accurate discussions." Labspaces currently hosts about 30 science account online autograph a day and links to addition 10 online autograph from alfresco sources.

Though it is geared against the accurate community, Labspaces.net is not an absolute arrangement and encourages the intermingling of both scientists and the public. The website contains the accustomed appearance of added amusing networks such as user profiles, groups, a forum, and blogs; however, it aswell includes lab profiles and gives users the adeptness to add their advertisement history and abstruse analysis protocols to their profiles. "There are added websites on the internet that host a science forum, or affectation science news, or host protocols," said Krueger, "but none of them accompany all of those appearance calm in one abode like Labspaces.net."

The website began as a amusement for Krueger, who wondered aback in 2005 if he could affairs his own amusing arrangement from the arena up. Labspaces.net aboriginal went abide in August of 2007. Its online autograph accept been featured on Yahoo!, Fark.com, and CBS news.

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