Being back in University I get to see more and more data sets. Origninally I wanted to use the data sets category of my blog to provide an unordered list of these publicly available data sets sort of as a personal reminder. For some reason I never really did that but I am now about …
Author: Rene
Questions and Answers for better CRM – The perfect Band website part 6
In my German article on Facebook Marketing for Bands I mentioned that part of your good online marketing (not only on Facebook) is the communication with your fans. Especially answering fanmail and answering their questions is important. One comment on my article said that caring about all fans takes a lot of man power and …
Band marketing on Facebook
I just wanted to point out that I was writing some German articles about band marketing on Facebook for Germany’s biggest Blog on Facebook marketing called Allfacebook.de. Today the first article of my article series came online and I am very excited to see how everyone liked it! So if you speak German feel free …
Social news streams and time indices on graphs for social networks
Last week I had a meeting with my PhD advisor and we talked about my ideas on social news streams and how you could implement them using graph data bases. Of course my choise here would be neo4j. Yesterday I had my first talk in our “Oberseminar” which is a weekly meeting of all PhD …
How to create animations between two vector graphics?
I am just about to prepare a talk about my current research on social news streams for social networks. As I have learned giving good examples is essential! That is why I already spent a whole day learning some basic inkscape to create some vector graphics which are supposed to visualize some of my research …
Website of GEMA hacked by anonymous group AnonyPwnies
In Germany a lot of music videos on youtube are not available because youtube and GEMA could never agree on the amount of licence fees that youtube should pay to legally stream those videos. So if I want to listen / watch to a Lady Gaga Video in Germany I won’t be able to do …
Teach First Germany – Why education is a Human right.
Today i want to introduce you to a project that is very important to me! It is called Teach First Germany and follows the model of the uk based idea of teach first (see wikipedia). I don’t know if one could really call it social entrepreneurship but I would do so! Teach First was first …
Propaganda, filtering and blocking by Facebook?
The discussions about the ethics of facebook are old and everyone knows my oppinion on their ethics. But now I discovered a youtube video shared by a Google Product Manager on Google plus that Facebook will filter out your invitations to Googleplus from your friends facebook news stream. It is not new that facebook is …
"I have no idea how to do it!" – Tim Harford's TED talk: Trial & Error and the God Complex
Finally someone stood up and said what I was feeling all my live! Tim Harford is an expert on complex systems and realized that most of them evolve by trial and error and not by some authority saying we have to do it in this and that way. He points out that this seems to …
Risks and criticisms of Google's Data liberation front
I have wanted to write about Google’s data liberation front from some time. The data liberation front is an effort by Google to make your data from Google products available to you once you decide not to use them any more. Today my former student Martin was faster in his blog and created an excelent …