Cody Taylor

waderoush writes “Nothing like the open source computing movement has ever caught fire in biology or pharmaceuticals, where intellectual property is king. But drawing inspiration from the people who make Linux software, and the social networking success of Facebook, Merck’s cancer research leader has nailed down million to launch a nonprofit biology platform called Sage, which aims to make it easier for researchers around the world to pool their data to make better drugs. ‘We see this becoming like the Google of biological science. It will be such an informative platform, you won’t be able to make decisions without it,’ says Merck’s Eric Schadt, a co-founder of Sage. He adds: ‘We want this to be like the Internet. Nobody owns it.'”

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nandemoari writes “It seems the world’s most popular social networking site was just moments away from acquiring another — and few of us ever knew about it. A Facebook executive has revealed that a planned takeover of Twitter only fell apart because of a disagreement over stock valuations. Despite the rather miserable economy, Facebook is still looking to buy out other firms and says it could make a billion dollars a year from advertising. Peter Thiel, a venture capitalist who put up some of the money behind Facebook, discussed the deal in a Business Week interview. Thiel says the two sides agreed a 0 million purchase price and that Twitter would receive the payment in Facebook stock rather than cash — which is a common solution in large takeovers where there simply isn’t the money available for a buyout.”

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Can the Web 2. 0 community come up with applications that change people’s lives for the better? Yes, it can, experts say.

DoubleTwist is a new, open source, universal media manager in beta for the Mac. It gathers music, videos and photos, supports tons of devices and has a P2P/social networking component. Will it be great?

Some of these sites allow you to craft a resume, while others are networking platforms that contain job listings. By signing up for all ten, you increase your chances of getting a job and decrease the amount of time you’ll spend searching for a new one.