tl,dr verion: Source code at github! A couple of days ago a data set was released on Wikileaks consisting of about 23 thousand emails sent within the Democratic National Committee that would demonstrate how the DNC was actively trying to prevent Bernie Sanders from being the democratic candidate for the General public election. I am …
Tag: Social Network
Why Facabook likes do not really matter
Long time I have been trying to educate people about social networks and marketing within social networking services. I thought I would not create an article about the topic in my blog again, but I just stumbled upon a really nice video summarizing a lot of my concerns from a different angle. So here you …
Why would musicians use online social networking sites?
For the last 5 years I have been running metalcon an online social network for metal fans and metal bands. As written recently I have the the chance to rewrite the entire platform with a team of 6 programmers. This time we want to do it the correct why. Instead of Thinking of features right …
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 …
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!
Related-work.net – Product Requirement Document released!
Recently I visited my friend Heinrich Hartmann in Oxford. We talked about various issues how research is done in these days and how the web could theoretically help to spread information faster and more efficiently connect people interested in the same paper / topics. The idea of http://www.related-work.net was born. A scientific platform which is …
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 …
My first PhD year summerized: What a great choice of mine!
2011 is almost over and more than 9 months of my PhD have already passed by. During my math diploma I was founded by the german national academic foundation. Besides some really nice benefits that came along with this every 6 months I was forced to write reports about my study progress. Even though theses …
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 …