WorldWide Telescope is a "Universe Information System" created by Microsoft Research that our group helps to develop and deploy. In the Seamless Astronomy program, we use WWT as an excellent all-sky, smoothly zoom-able data visualizer, as well as a key link to full VAO functionality.
ADSlabs is the BETA platform of the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System. It implements the latest technologies and prototype services in scientific literature/data search.
The Online Astronomy User Group provides a platform for sharing resources, workflows, and basic organizational information about networked tools, websites and databases in astronomy.
"Astrobetter is intended for professional astronomers. The goal of AstroBetter is to provide information and tips about streamlining all the things we need to do Astronomy well."
The Wolbach UX is a Harvard Library Lab funded project with the aim of experimenting with new gesture and touch-based technologies while demonstrating the usefulness of these interactive technolog
(from the VAO website:) The US Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO) is the VO effort based in the US, and it is one of many VO projects currently underway worldwide. The primary emphasis of the VAO is to provide new scientific research capabilities to the astronomy community.
The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant.
