Connotea is a free online reference management service. It allows you to save links to all your favourite articles, references, websites and other online resources with one click. Connotea is also a social bookmarking tool, like del.ico.us, so you can view other people's collections to discover new, interesting content. Some features have been requested by the users on the connotea mailing list and, among them Pedro Horna suggested that anonimity was not a good deal with connotea.
Although nicknames are popular in social bookmarking, chatrooms and poetry, anonymity has always been a very rare event in science basically because it does not make any sense. We scientists constantly struggle to let ourselves known and go to great lengths to find out who we might be interacting with in order to strengthen our network of potential collaborators. I bet most researchers are more than willing to put some info about themselves, probably as a "user note" or "user profile"...
Other people suggested to use a WIKI to store such information.
Today, the Connotea team has just released a new version wich uses a wiki to store your scientific profile ([here is mine]) or to describe your team/group...
This also can now be a nice place to define your unique URI and to create your FOAF profile...
Great !
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