Streamosphere: Tracking Scientific Discussion June 16, 2009

Nature Publishing Group has always been open to the tools and opportunities web 2.0 can provide. You may remember my post,  10 Reasons Why Nature is the Best in Science 2.0. Now here is Streamosphere as presented on Nascent:

Streamosphere lets you track scientific discussion on the web, in real time.

Each timeline shows discussion around a particular item, for now always a web page. The portrait on the left is of one of the people who first started talking about the item. The slice of time in which the discussion was active (people were leaving comments, tweeting, liking or bookmarking it) is coloured a shade of magnolia. Behind the active slice is a graph – this shows you how much activity there was at any one point.