This is a copy of an answer I left on Larry Page’s Google Plus profile after another announcement about the progress of the self driving car: How come you have a patent for the self driving taxi company in the USA? I always thought of you as a creative role model who wanted to change …
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Neo4j based Typology also awarded top 90 at Google Science fair.
Yesterday I shared the good news about Till and Paul who have been awarded one of the top 5 projects at the German federal competition Young scientists. Today the good news continues. Together with more than 1000 competitors they did also submit the project to the Google Science Fair. And guess what! Google likes graph …
PhD proposal on distributed graph data bases
Over the last week we had our off campus meeting with a lot of communication training (very good and fruitful) as well as a special treatment for some PhD students called “massage your diss”. I was one of the lucky students who were able to discuss our research ideas with a post doc and other …
Why Musicians should have a Bandpage on Google Plus!
The following info graphic for businesses was released by Chris Brogan and demonstrates quite well why musicians should get on Google Plus and how to use it. It is released under a creative commons licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ Very good work!
Google Video on Search Quality Meeting: Spelling for Long Queries by Lars Hellsten
Amazing! Today I had a discussion with a coworker about transparency and the way companies should be more open about what they are doing! And what happens on the same day? One of my favourite webcompanies has decided to publish a short video taken from the weekly search quality meeting! The proposed change by Lars …
Google Pregel vs Signal Collect for distributed Graph Processing – pros and cons
One of the reading club assignments was to read the paper about Google Pregel and Signal Collect, compare them and point out pros and cons of both approaches. So after I read both papers as well as Claudios overview on Pregel clones and took some notes here are my thoughts but first a short summary …
Some thoughts on Google Mapeduce and Google Pregel after our discussions in the Reading Club
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 …
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 …
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% …
Internet educates africa! Open education – a success story!
Obviously education is one of the topics that is important to me. recently I wrote about a teach first project. 6 month ago I was participating in a workshop organized by the Universities of Koblenz. This workshop was for future entrepreneurs teaching them some basics about design thinking and about business plans! Together with two …