Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

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February 2011

Fixed the “Failed to load resource” issue in the Twitter Swarm NLP extension: http://bit.ly/gEkLSG // @JoukoSalonenonen (thx for bug report)

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@byoogle Freemium is the new premium. You get increased load time for better grammar.

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Pushed v1.0.3 of Twitter Whom to follow. Fixes “Twitter accounts suggested for you based on whoM you follow and more.”: http://bit.ly/gQ2hZU

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@pablomendes @anjeve “Would be neat to have the services you used listed in desc.” => Done. Credit was already given below /each/ entity.

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@pablomendes Thanks :-) Uses , among others (see sources below entities). Thank /you/ for Spotlight. It’s awesome!

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Interested in the experiment that led to the development of Twitter Whom to follow? Install Twitter Swarm NLP: http://bit.ly/gEkLSG

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RT @TechCrunch: Chrome Extension Fixes Twitter’s Grammar, Tells Us “Whom” We Should Ftcrn.ch/hbe6duqXm5@alexiaalexia // Thanks :-)

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@alexia Done :-) 1.0.2 of the extension is live. Pedantically yours, Tom

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@alexia I will see what I can do. Thanks for caring ;-)

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@kidehen Future work ;-) No, srsly, is on roadmap! Planning shorty for http://bit.ly/gDk186 (interested?), so cant modify running experiment

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@kidehen For now accumulating all in Analytics, w/o relation to orig tweets. Goal is s.th. like Twitter Trends. API w/ tweet=>entities later

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@kidehen Yepp. Try hard-reloading. Only works at initial onload event. If not, check the console for debug logs/errors. Thanks.

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@kidehen You should see the entities at the right pane. The popup has no functionality other than showing activity. Will be removed in 0.0.2

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Add a little &aData to your Twitter timeline w/ my Twitter Swarm NLP Chrome extension: http://bit.ly/fJPKc8

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paul_irish more Chrome Dev Tools updates! http://goo.gl/KR6D5 and… my new video, “12 Tricks to Develop Quicker with Chrome” http://goo.gl/H4ZH9

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@clay_woolam (2) Intentionally not working on search page. Send me your highlighting/coloring ideas (tomacATgoogleDOTcom).

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@clay_woolam (1) Currently it only works once on the initial onload event on your/others timeline, but not for later Ajax-pulled-in tweets.

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@wasswasswass I’m not sure, however, it could be easily done w/ a Greasemonkey script. Let me know if you need help w/ that.

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My new Swarm Chrome extension does Named Entity Extraction () on your tweets: http://bit.ly/twitterswa…

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@trickyday Twitter Whom to follow Google Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.co…

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@emendapp Twitter Whom to follow Google Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.co…

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@micapam Twitter Whom to follow Google Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.co…

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chromeplugins New extension: Twitter Whom to follow http://bit.ly/exnTQK

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@ivan_herman Oh! Merci, @rtroncy pour découvrir le secret, et joyeux anniversaire, @ivan_herman! Que tu passes une bonnee journée!

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Hey, @Twitter! I’ve coded a Chrome extension to make your “Who to follow” a “Whom to follow”: http://bit.ly/whomtofoll…

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Today’s #XKCD features #Android: http://xkcd.com/864/ (read the mouseover text) // CC: @retomeier, @timbray

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@grindcrank Empfehle dir dazu Franz Latte: http://bit.ly/esXg26. Viele Grüße aus HH :-)

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@iand Fair enough. Do you have an idea for the 404s, though? Whatever “Accept” header I send, I always get 303ed to the .html, which 404s :(

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@iand 404s too, eg starting from http://bit.ly/hgCnHU > mo:available_as http://bit.ly/fQGVvf > tracklist:231742 > http://bit.ly/hGnVhX [404]

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@iand Hi Ian. Getting timeout errors on several #MusicBrainz Data Incubator pages (e.g. http://bit.ly/euqUd8). Known issue? Thanks!

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@tmpz If you manage to organize a big enough meeting (say, 50+ people), we can talk about it… :-)

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This bug drove me crazy: http://bit.ly/hCHuFt. Missing outgoing links in the if there’re >100 of them. JSON seems to work OK.

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is awesome! Puts your tweets in a feed, so that you can subscribe to it in, e.g., Google Calendar: http://twistory.net/

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@dakoller @kojote @Elektrojunge @stugtug Munich and Stuttgart is of course on my agenda :-) Need to settle dates, though…

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Planning a tour through DE/AT/CH Technology User Groups to spread the word about , , use.

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RT @webr3: One of the best Calvin and Hobbes comics I’ve seen yet: http://bit.ly/esNENp // +1k

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SteveAllen BBC Internet Blog: Frame accurate video now possible in HTML5 http://bbc.in/hM3Beh

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is MacGyver, is James Bond: http://bit.ly/hmHs4g. DIfferences of two version control systems explained w/ analogies.

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@pigsonthewing Try ddrescue, instructions for Mac OS X: bit.ly/eI0euO. Good luck! Rescued a 250GB disk w/ it…

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RT @cygri: “If you’re not embarrassed when you ship your first version you waited too long … Usage is like oxygen for ideas.” http://bit

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’@ptarjanan on the question whts and noFa: http://twitpic.com/40z8tb. Thanks for the open and honest answer!

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@wolframkriesing Don’t you count @appcelerator as a company? I think they had an booth?!

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@bsletten I realize that my tweet sounded overly negative. Obviously any structure’s good structure. Yet personally I’d have preferred

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adds hCalendar & hCmats to millions of events: http://bit.ly/h05VJe. another lost opportunity RDcWeb

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edsu cool, an ietf draft from Google for registering canonical, current, immutable, latest, mirror, permanlink & shortlink http://bit.ly/faTV3r

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RT @kevinSuttle: Glad to see there’s some work being picked up again on , particularly in re-thinking things http://j.mp/i8f9yr

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At the European Commission in the Information Society and Media DG in Brussels for the 1st review of the project.

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cygri Interesting: Google introduces Dataset Publishing Language (DSPL) and opens its Public Data Explorer to anyone’s data http://bit.ly/dXwzu3

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@bsletten For my task I can’t really use it, however, my just-for-fun tests failed w/ a 400 Bad Request error. Same for you?

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@bsletten No, all remotely from their service. Sorry.

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Playing w/ by @pablomendes et altera. Looks really promising so far. Will send some comments once I’ve done more tests.

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@webr3 With what you know there’re ways to avoid this. Wanna work for us? Ping me if you’re interested ;-)

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.@danja rephrases @stevefaulkner’L5 3C q: Pls explain role of W3C in <blink>continuing</blink> dev oML: http://bit.ly/fhZYvE

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@kendall Yepp. In the center of Hamburg, doing stuff ;-) If you’re interested, ping me: tomac (AT) google [DOT] com.

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Had a neat over-dinner idea for a demo (Making Sense of Microposts, workshop at ). Testing tomorrow. Fun ahead!

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@aharth Interesting! I’ve had discussions w/ @mfhepp wrt. spam in form of invisible triples vs. visible HTML.

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@stilkov Hammer-Post, hab ich auch geliebt. Als Hamburger lohnt sich “Franz Latte” vom selben Autoren. Findet man sich oft wieder :-)

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RT @mattcutts: New extension to block sites in Google: http://goo.gl/nETVU. Tell Google which sites you don’t want. //Erm, .

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@jhaynie Cool! Thanks for the insights. Looking forward to having support for both (-: @appcelerator FTW.

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@jhaynie What’s first? BlackBerry OS or Windows 7 Phone support i@appceleratoror? Any hint?

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Fixing latex bibtex latex latex w/ #TeXlipse: http://bit.ly/ekWjaJ: #LaTeX for #Eclipse. (via @hfmuehleisen, as all other LaTeX awesomeness)

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I’ve updated the Breadcrumb Navigator Chrome extension: middle-click / CTRL-click a breadcrumb to open it in a new tab: http://bit.ly/enz5nn

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@manusporny Interesting at least. But why on GitHub & not your own site? I know i#CC0, but still. Plus, I guess, it’s gonna stay at 1.0.

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@webr3 I know @jerem who works there. I can connect you if you want. Erm, well, herewith did already.

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Submitted to #LDOW2011. Thanks for the fruitful cooperation, @dvdeurse, @rtroncy, and (no tweep) J. Gabarró. It was fun and an honor :D

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@mhausenblas Nice! I still have trouble w/ (compiled) .node files. Couldn’t investigate more yet. But definitively +1 for the pleasant env.!

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@pmika Bummer, that’s my university, but I work on remotely from Hamburg… Hope you had a great time. Cheers!

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@_Yllier_ Looking forward to it! Thanks for constantly improving it, was definitively worth the purchase. Keep rocking ;-)

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Loving today’CD: http://xkcd.com/859/ (Just felt like letting you know

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Wow! &asoft Announce Plans for a Broad Strategic Partnership to Build a New Global Mobile Ecosystem: http://bit.ly/fLijYH

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03:43am. submission landed in EasyChair. Tired. (CC: @algermissen)

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Joining the new Working Group to represent Google. http://bit.ly/hSzdeg

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portenkirchner RT @stevefaulkner: A letter to the W3C: Please explain the role of the W3C in the continuing development of HTML http://bit.ly/h7I5K7

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~RT @mollyali @ivan_herman: Proud to announce Open Attribute, making it easy to attribute licensed work: http://j.mp/eVuT7u

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~RT @bendiken: Back from the Berlin Meetup, overwhelmed by the response to => @dydradata <= having exited stealth mode today.

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Late nite re-read of the Richardson Maturity Model (http://j.mp/glzQoe) & hoping to convi@algermissenssen for a crEOAS idea…

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Learnt that there’s a vocabulary for representing the vocab. in : http://j.mp/i9XDHp (via @olafhartig & http://j.mp/hr78z9)

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Project by Patrick Müller looks like a very promising approach to mobilet debugging: http://bit.ly/gpSdPS

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Big thank you to @olafhartig for helping me out w/ a question on his Vocabulary: http://j.mp/hRgVfL. Coming soon to .

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Confirmed working! Thanks :-) The glitch helped me make my code more stable. Good thing :-)

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@gkob Yay! Thanks for the update. Still 404-ing, but I’ll check back in a couple of minutes. Cheers!

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@gkob Hi Georgi! Seems like the @uberblic API is down :-( All requests return 404 (e.g., http://bit.ly/em8dCF). Known issue? Thanks!

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~RT @cramforce: Another awesome design: http://bit.ly/gex6UP. Tomorrows superstar web designers will also be superstar coders. […] // +1

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~RT @beverloo: Microsoft releases a (Windows 7 only) plugin for Google to add support for video http://goo.gl/J2SRg //

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@dakoller Part of the ;D 1st need to convert an all client-side app into a Web service. Easy. Next need to improve quality. Hard.

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@dakoller Screencast: http://bit.ly/bT2lt3, demo: http://bit.ly/asxbce, sample preso: http://bit.ly/gvYzOe. Currently porting it to node.JS.

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@dakoller Thanks :-) Thrilled! Also challenged to improve the approach, too. Fun times ahead ;-) Have you decided yet if you’re going?

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I’ll be giving a 1/2 conference talk (25min) oDF video annotation ach (San Francisco) in Junehiad

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Dear , beloved , Do you know of an lib for w/ _full_ namespace support (for elems & attribs)? Thanks!

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esquimalapps Yay, we’re on the worldwide! Esquimal Apps - Foto ABC http://bit.ly/fotoabc-es (link goes directly to the Spanish AppStore).

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