The first meeting of our reading club was quite a success. Everyone was well prepared and we discussed some issues about Google’s Map Reduce framework and I had the feeling that everyone now better understands what is going on there. I will now post a summary of what has been discussed and will also post some …
Year: 2012
Reading club on Graph databases and distributed systems
Update: find a summary of last meeting and the current reading list for next week’s meeting here. Teaching classes is over for this term so for the next couple of weeks I want to spend a lot of time working on some research topics that are on my mind. My goal is to finnaly write …
Birds of a feather: Graph processing future trends in Graph Devroom
Since one of the talks got canceled the organisers of the Graph Devroom at Fosdem used the opportunity to make a public discussions with all the developers to talk about some future trends in graph processing. I really liked the idea but unfortunately the discussion wasn’t really kicking off well. I guess for a discussion …
Nils Grunwald from Linkfluence talks at FOSDEM about Cascalog for graph processing
Nils Grunwald works at the french startup Linkefluence. Their product is more or less social network analysis and graph processing. They crawl the web and blogs or get other social network data and provide solutions with statistics and insights for their customers. In this scenario obviously big data is envolved and the data carries a …
Claudio Martella talks @ FOSDEM about Apache Giraph: Distributed Graph Processing in the Cloud
Claudio Martella introduces Apache Giraph which according to him is a loose implementation of Google Pregel which was introduced on SIGMOD in 2010. He points out that Map Reduce cannot be used to do graph processing. He then gave an example on how MapReduce can be used to to do page rank calculation. He points out that Pagerank can be calculated …
Attending Mozilla Devroom at FOSDEM: Hacking Gecko by Bobby Holley
Since I went to Brussesl to attend the Free Open Source Developer European Meeting and give a talk about graphity I had also some time to attend some interesting talks. Since I will teach a class in summer for students about creating a basic webserver and webbrowser I decided to listen to some talks of …
Open Access and the Boycott of Elsevier! Let uns not stop here and take the digital revolution one step further!
Believing in open models and supporting ideas of copy left I am more than happy to see the current developement of scientists worldwide publicly making statements of not supporting Elsevier in the future which I will obviously join! You can find the page where scientists make thos statements under: http://thecostofknowledge.com/ And you find much more resources …
Google 2011 Q4 Earnings
Ok no secret here that I am a Google Fan. But listening to the Google Report of 2011 I am just amazed and speechless. Everything is growing: $10 bn revenue / quartal ==> more than $100 mio. / day!!! 90 Mio Google+ users over 60% of plus users engage daily with it and over 80% …
Question by Filip Stilin (House on Mars): What do you think of Bandcamp?
Filip Stilin is the frontman of House on Mars a promesing young croation band (check out their music on bandcamp). He loves music and online marketing so he read my blog and sent me and email with a couple of interesting observations and questions. I got his permission to publish parts of his mail and …
Wikipedia to Blackout for 24 hours to fight SOPA and PIPA – Copy of the user discussion and poll on my blog
I am one of the web pioneers but this is about the most amazing thing that I will be witnessing on the web as long as I can remember. Tomorrow on January 18th the english version of Wikipedia will shut down for 24 hours to protest two upcoming (?) american laws (SOPA and PIPA) that …