So, is anybody here actually active on academia.edu? Asking, since as a computer vision researcher (3D reconstruction, obstacle recognition/identification, augmented reality, ...) I am constantly looking for scientific resources, and to be frank, it is quite annoying because it can become really time consuming.
So a genuine question, is the site worth signing up for? I remember when mendeley just started, there was lots of excitement about it, mainly because it was sort of marketed as the last.fm of research (giving you good recommendations for your scientific interests), but then it turned out to be just meeh (getting bought by Elsevier didn't help much ;-).
Also, on a side note, are there any other good sites doing something similar out there (like a reddit/HN for insert your research interests here type of site) that are actually any good? I'm sure there must be a lot of other researchers active on HN...
I've been a regular user of Mendeley, not for recommendations--that's what journal TOC alert services are for--but just for managing my bibliographies and preprint PDFs. I'm allergic to Endnote and I got tired of Zotero's sluggish speed (not that I've tried using it in a few years). Mendeley has been a nice replacement.
(All that said, I really do hope Zotero does well, since it's open-source and not owned by a major commercial publisher.)
We're trying to build a social learning network for science that aims to provide a good discussion, learning and networking environment. Here's the link - http://functionspace.org
So a genuine question, is the site worth signing up for? I remember when mendeley just started, there was lots of excitement about it, mainly because it was sort of marketed as the last.fm of research (giving you good recommendations for your scientific interests), but then it turned out to be just meeh (getting bought by Elsevier didn't help much ;-).
Also, on a side note, are there any other good sites doing something similar out there (like a reddit/HN for insert your research interests here type of site) that are actually any good? I'm sure there must be a lot of other researchers active on HN...