Scientific American is running a major article on Science 2.0, or the use of Web 2.0 applications and techniques by scientists to collaborate and publish in new ways.

“Under [the] radically transparent ‘open notebook’ approach, everything goes online: experimental protocols, successful outcomes, failed attempts, even discussions of papers being prepared for publication… The time stamps on every entry not only establish priority but allow anyone to track the contributions of every person, even in a large collaboration.”

Via Slashdot.

Everybody heard about the partnership that Google and Salesforce.com announced about a week ago. Google’s set of online productivity applications such as Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, etc, are now fully integrated in Salesforce.com. Everything is free unless a company needs the premier edition including added security and management features for $5/user/month. By summer, Salesforce.com will be reselling the premier edition for $10/user/month including telephone support.

Not familiar with Google Apps or Salesforce? Don’t worry if you don’t yet understand how this all works. They asked Commoncraft to create and publish a new animation to make everything clear. Who’s better than Commoncraft to explain a web technology with a set of basic drawings, by using simple words and in less than three minutes? Beyond the Google-Salesforce deal, the animation turns out to be an excellent promotion of online collaboration tools and techniques in a corporate environment also known as “office 2.0″.

Watch the result below.

Via Webilus.