As stated before I did my first testings with Neo4j. Now I wanted to include Neo4j to GWT which is actually very straight forward but for some reasons I was fighting with it for quite a while. I even had to emberass myself by asking stupid questions on the neo4j mailinglist to which Peter and …
Year: 2011
Analysing user behaviour in internet communities
Yesterday Julia Preusse – who started her PhD studies at WeST just a month before I did – had a talk about her research interests. She is interested in communities and the behaviour of users in discussions. I thought she was having some interesting ideas. That is why I asked her for a meeting today. …
Neo4j Graph Database vs MySQL
For my social news stream application I am heavily thinking about the right software to support my backend. After I designed a database model in MySQL I talked back to Jonas and he suggested to search for a better suiting technology. A little bit of research brought me to a Graph database called Neo4j. After …
Apple I phone Location tracking: That's not a bug
Today Apple finnaly published a press release with a statement about their tracking of geo locations of iPhone users. They clearly say that they did not intend to save this data on an I phone nor did they purposely send the data back to the apple servers. In their press release they state that this …
Social news streams – a possible PhD research topic?
It is two months now of reading papers since I started my PhD program. Enough time to think about possible research topics. I am more and more interested in search, social networks in general and social news streams in particular. It is obvious that it is becoming more and more important to aggregate news around …
Usability Test: Using Skype for testing the usability of your website.
After I have read the book Don’t make me think! by Steve Krug I have learned that you cannot start early enough with your usability testing. Steve pushes the fact that you don’t have to go to some fancy lab using an eye tracker or other stuff. He recommends to just show someone your templates …
Retargeting: smart online marketing system by Criteo
So here we go with my first post about internet start ups. I am not sure yet weather I like their product. But the idea behind it is certainly very clever. What I like about the system is that this kind of advertising is impossible in an offline world. So someone understood what you can …
how to move wordpress directory: Problems with upload_path wp-content/uploads
Recently I was forced to move a wordpress site to a different webserver. By moving to a new server due to different hosting policies I also had to change the physical directory in which the wordpress files were stored. Before it was something like /var/www/wordpress afterwards it became /home/domainname/www/ . So after moving the data …
Facebook Streaming App – viral maketing (Word of mouth) for music bands
You are a musician or you work for a modern record label. You realized that after myspace is kind of dead that you can reach your fans and new audience on Facebook. Congratulation! Of course you can quickly go to facebook, create a fanpage for your band, install some widgets, and have your customized Fanpage …
Power of Google Homepage
Google has put information about the Youtube Symphony Orchestra on its homepage! Whatch yourself: After Thomas recommended reading a paper about trending topics in twitter where it was discovered that trends can be strongly influenced by external factors (media, news) I went right away to twitter looking for the #ysto. Of course I was not …