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Where is the technorati for science? A site that accumulates all abstracts of scientific publications that you can search for – based on content, author, publication, keywords. A site that offers RSS feeds for those searches.

What else could be done with a system like this?

* it would be very easy to stay up-to-date with current scientific progress – new publications on a subject would just appear in your inbox
* there would finally be a single place that would be the source of all your inquiries – your RSS feed reader! User’s choice!
* since RSS feeds can contain quite a bunch of meta data it would be very easy to integrate your reference manager – just point and click and save the abstract plus reference info, directly from the feed reader.
* integrate the system with social reference managers like citeUlike or connotea – making those social networks and meta information much more valuable as well as accessible.

But then Ⅰ just realize this may not ever going to happen – too many publishers are probably afraid of sharing that much freely; the service would probably be even interesting to scientists if it was not for free, if academic discounts are available.