I really like the idea. I think if you provide some interesting statistics as example can make it viral. For example: how many spammy followers aplusk, techcrunch, mashable etc. have. How many of them are common to all etc., etc. This might get you a follow up article on techcrunch or the likes too. :)

Not to mention that having a birds-eye view of the spam situation will let him black list accounts, because a spammer is a spammer for the first user he follows as much as the next hundred.

What the article says is TiO (a molecule aka superatom) mimics Ni (an atom). The group is trying to add another layer of molecules (superatoms) over the 2D periodic table.

Disclosure: I was a graduate student of Dr. Castleman.

Hey awesome, I saw some people from your group speak at a conference a while ago and I was really intrigued by this idea. Especially the idea of making superatom analogues of Alali-Halide crystals. i.e. taking closed shell Al cluster cations and anions and packing them into an ionic crystal. What's the inside word on efforts to actually fabricate these things? Are they still just theoretical? Could you make them with a ion cluster beam and doing deposition after mass filtering it?

The problem is not making them but making them in enough quantities to be actually used for applications. A lot of the current research efforts are in pursuit of depositing them on a surface in our group.

Do you have an affiliates program?

I know, but I cannot make them public or categorize them. And it will take me a while to come to articles which I upvoted 6 months back.

I agree and congratulations to the whole team. I have been a huge fan and loved their free service. However, as soon as I moved to the paid service and increased my backed up data to 10GB my computer became extremely slow. Dropbox is using 98% of CPU both on windows XP and Mac. It has been a week and not everything is backed up yet. Moreover, if I move a directory within my dropbox folder, it takes it as a new folder completely and tries to delete and back it up again which is completely opposite to their philosophy. Also, if you want to back up 2-3 computers at the same time everything screws up. So, a word of advice while using dropbox, be patient, dont get too excited after using their free service and jump the gun from 2GB to 20GB, do it slowly and carefully and hopefully things will work out great.

Me too, and I was only on the free version. After trying to copy a couple of thousand tiny text files, I had to force kill explorer repeatedly until I gave up and uninstalled Dropbox.

In the end I just signed up for a $9.99 a year hosting plan with 20 gig of storage and WebDAV. Cheaper, faster, and no funky software to crash my boxen.

Honestly I'm not even really sure how Dropbox ever became so popular.

That's not a store, that's a catalogue.

It's still pretty cool to get your webapp listed there :)

If you watch the end of this video http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potenti... which was posted on HN a couple of days back, you will see a lot of things that he proposes which can completely change how we interact.

He not only gives an example of virtual keyboard, he also gives example of a paper can be converted into a touch screen with a motion sensor.

Highly recommended video.

I didn't know you could download MP4 videos of TED talks! (links below the video)

http://video.ted.com/talks/podcast/PranavMistry_2009I_480.mp...

Take a look at some of the ARKit stuff linked from the blog post - that's pretty impressive, too.

This is really helpful. Thanks a lot.

I have also tried using Mendeley but never used it after a day of trying it. Papers for Mac is so much better and they have an iPhone app too. Hopefully, Mendeley will follow suit.

Another Papers user here, and I also use a combination of CiteULike ( http://www.citeulike.org ) and Bibdesk ( http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net ). I find either system both easier and more powerful than Mendeley.

Thanks for the info. Trial versions for desktop app are currently being developed and we will upload them on the websites you mentioned once they are done.

I was trying to figure out Amazon store for software, but it seems to be not working for everyone at this moment. The list you provided is good. It seems like there is no complete list for these stores. We will make one, once we are done with finding all and post a link on HN for everyone to use.