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 …
Tag: open source
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 …
Look for love video: Did DJ Sammy steel the video story from jubilees Love Language video? Watch both clips!
UPDATE: (Feb. 8th. 2012) the originial love language video is now linked under the official look for love Video from DJ Sammy! Glad to see that and glad to see that protest on the web seems to be heared. Now I can finally completely enjoy DJ sammy’s work without worries! Record industry as well as …
Open Source Facebook music streaming App for free download!
In an earlier post I have explained the need for a Facebook streaming app that has to be enhanced with some features in order to create viral word of mouth effects. Together with Yann Leretaille and Robert Naumann we programmed the facebook API and developed such an app for my band In legend. Today ( …
Download Google n gram data set and neo4j source code for storing it
In the end of September I discovered an amazing data set which is provided by Google! It is called the Google n gram data set. Even thogh the english wikipedia article about ngrams needs some clen up it explains nicely what an ngram is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram The data set is available in several languages and I …
Graphity: An efficient Graph Model for Retrieving the Top-k News Feeds for users in social networks
UPDATE: the paper got accepted at SOCIALCOM2012 and the source code and data sets are online especially the source code of the graphity server software is now online! UPDATE II: Download the paper (11 Pages from Social Com 2012 with Co Authors: Thomas Gottron, Jonas Kunze, Ansgar Scherp and Steffen Staab) and the slides I already said …
Download your open source Youtube insights statistics tool
Today I have figured out that you can download a lot of statistics about your on videos from Youtube. That is actually very nice since I was always sceptical that you miss the knowledge of who is watching your videos once you do not host them yourself. Unfortunately there are some drawbacks to these statistics: Youtube …
My Blog guesses your name – Binary Search Exercise for Algorithms and data structures class
Binary Search http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_search_algorithm is a very basic algorithm in computer science. Despite this fact it is also important to understand the fundamental principle behind it. Unfortunately the algorithm is tought so early and the algorithm is so simple that beginning students sometimes have a hard time to understand the abstract principle behind it. Also many …
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 …
Data mining (text analysis) for linguists on Ulysses by James Joyce & Faust by Goethe
Over the weekend I met some students studying linguistics. Methods from Linguistics are very important for text retrieval and data mining. That is why in my oppinion Linguistics is also a very important part of web science. I am always concerned that most people doing web science actually are computer scientists and that much of …