In this screencast of my series I explain at a very basic level how to integrate a data base to pull data for autocomplete queries. Since we have been working with neo4j at this time I used a neo4j data base. It will be only in the next two parts of this series where I …
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Metalcon finally gets a redesign – Thinking about high scalability
Finally metalcon.de the social networking site which Jonas, Jens and me created in 2008 gets a redesign. Thanks to the great opportunities at the Institute for Web Science and Technologies here in Koblenz (why don’t you apply for a PhD position with us?) I will have the chance to code up the new version of …
Building an Autocomplete Service in GWT screencast Part 3: Getting the Server code to send a basic response
In this screencast of my series on building an autocomplete service you will learn how to implement a Server servlet in GWT such that autocomplete queries receive a response. In this video the response will always be static and very naive. It will be up to the fourth part of this series which will follow …
Analyzing the final and intermediate results of the iversity MOOC Fellowship online voting
As writen before Steffen and I participated in the online voting for the MOOC fellowship. Today the competition finished and I would like to say thank you to everyone who so far participated in the voting in particular to the 435 people supporting our course. I did never image to get that many people to …
Create a Screencast in Ubuntu with recordmydesktop and do Soundengineering and post production
I promised to create some screen casts for the autocomplete service with GWT based on neo4j. After I have created all the screencasts I had to go through quite some hassle in order to do so. So let me share my experience and toolchain in order to produce a somewhat accaptable screen cast. I am …
The best way to create an autocomplete service: And the winner is…. Giuseppe Ottaviano
Over one year ago I was starting to think about indexing scored stings for auto completion queries. I stumbled upon this problem after seeing the strength of the predictions of the typology approach for next word prediction on smartphones. The typology approach had one major drawback: Though its suggestions had a high precision the speed …
Please help me to realize my Web science massive open online course
I am asking you for a big favor in this blog post! You can help me to achieve one of my childhood dreams: I am an enthusiastic teacher and love to share information (as you might have seen by reading my blog) Over the last month I have designed a structure for an online course …
Web science education and web science mooc
The slides of my talk in the web science education workshop can be found here. The talk was about two things: Our application for the web science mooc (
Related work slides from Rigour and Openness @ Oxford 2013
please find all the information of the talk in oxford. the slides of the talk just given in at Rigour and Openness in Oxford the original product requirement document for the related work project technical slides about related work at FOSDEM 2013 the source code the data Btw it will be build on graphity to …
Teaching Web Science (web architecture and Web ethics) to students
In July 2012 we taught a course for the German National Summer School for high school students. The course consisted of 50 hours over 14 days. Due to some specific settings of the Summer School we had to make a few adjustments to the format of our curriculum and lectures. Still we gathered some good …