UPDATE: now with link to the PhD thesis. By the time of blogging the thesis was not published. thanks to Patrick Durusau for pointing out the missing link. One of the first things I did @ my Institute when starting my PhD program was reading the PhD thesis of Jérôme Kunegis. For a mathematician a …
Tag: Social Network
Amazed by neo4j, gwt and my apache tomcat webserver
edit: the demo is finally online but on a different data set though: check out the demo and read about the new data set. An evaluation of graphity can be found here Besides reading papers I am currently implementing the infrastructure of my social news stream for the new metalcon version. For the very first …
Data structure for Social news streams on Graph data bases
UPDATE: look at http://www.rene-pickhardt.de/graphity for a more scientific survey and evaluation of this data structure. Ok you guys did not hear much from me most recently. I was on vaccation and then on summer school and I worked on my first scientific poster and on a talk which will hopefully ontribute to my PhD thesis. …
Time lines and news streams: Neo4j is 377 times faster than MySQL
Over the last weeks I did some more work on neo4j. And I am ready to present some more results on the speed (In my use case neo4j outperformed MySQL by a factor of 377 ! That is more than two magnitudes). As known one part of my PhD thesis is to create a social newsstream …
Will Google plus be the Facebook Killer? What do you think?
Hey everyone! Last week I sent out over 100 invitations to Google Plus. I know some of you are still waiting to be allowed to join. But for those who have seen G+ I would love to hear your oppinion on Google Plus. Do you think it will become a serious major social networking site? …
Why Google Plus and social networking is so important to Google
Finally Google made the big step to enter the social networking market. (Here my first thoughts and impressions on Google+. ) There were quite a lot of rumors about it and of course everyone saw it coming. In the actual discussions, there seems to be a lot of confusion about why social networking is actually …
First Impressions of Google+ Usability Reminding of Apple
Yesterday I was finally able to receive an invitation to Google+ (thanks to Lisa!). After seeing it from the inside, I am convinced that this is the killer application that will stop Facebook. Google+ feels totally comfortable. It also allows you to make your communication much more effective. When you login to Google+, Google already …
Google, Facebook & co. are not free!
Besides ecommerce one really big Internet business model obviously is the trade or monetarization of data. This Blogpost reminded to write an article about this topic. I think the author points out the most important facts! Services like Facebook / gmail / Youtube and so on are not free. Moneywise they are free of charge but …
Stop Facebook – Filterbubble of facebook's news stream & wall
As everyone knows in my limited freetime I am currently doing two tings: I am reading Eli Parisers book about the filterbubble. I don’t want to review it until I am done which happens hopefully somewhen soon. But it has a connection to the other thing I am doing I am promoting my Band’s first …
Social news streams – a possible PhD research topic?
It is two months now of reading papers since I started my PhD program. Enough time to think about possible research topics. I am more and more interested in search, social networks in general and social news streams in particular. It is obvious that it is becoming more and more important to aggregate news around …