Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @tomayac ever

September 2011

RT @eturner303: Data Geeks: timeu.se is a lotta fun. Like Google’s NGram viewer, but for Tweets. // +1. Cool & fun to play with!

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@marcmasdeu Dont die just yet. Read RMS’s Spanish jokes 1st: http://t.co/lIpB1cxB. Most of them :-| at best IMHO. Maybe for native speakers…

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@DB_Info Fair enough, you tell me you’re down for maintenance after checking the timetable, but clicking on Login just resets the HTTP conn.

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.@DB_Info Why do I have to check Twitter to know that your booking system’s down for scheduled maintenance? Tell me on www.bahn.de! KTHXBYE.

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.@pablomendes Full green light from my side for switching from dev to prod w/ (Web service). All tests ran smoothly. Thx

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@stilkov @mikekelly85 While I not necessarily like the development, I think HTTP interfaces are here to stay. Not sure it’s worth the fight.

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#OpenGraph wins the #SemanticWeb: http://t.co/pwKgDJIU (via @danbri’s Facebook). Still no solution for multiple items on 1 page, tho, right?

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RT @pablomendes: v0.5 released at spotlight.dbpedia.org/dev/demo/. We plan to switch to prod. next week. // +1. Will test tomorrow.

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@RubenVerborgh @dvdeurse Bedankt! Any background information on the “tags”? What are those technically?

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Compilation of all slide decks shown at the workshop on 9/21: schemaorg.cloudapp.net/2011Workshop/

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@Hillalli First of all obviously: huge congratulations to your PhD!

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@Hillalli Have read your slides w/ great interest. Seems like we do similar stuff. My focus: event summarization http://t.co/uvZBftSd

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RT @rtroncy: Congrats! RT @Hillalli: Thesis defense slides: “Identification and Characterization of Events in Social Media” http://t.co/

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@antoniogarrote You’re based in London? Man, I totally missed that fact. Bummer :-( I heard about thUG by accident. Next time then…

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Spontaneously at the (London User Group) inauguration meeting. Great crowd. Thanks @mahemoff for tweeting about it.

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@forwardtek Any chance to still sneak in tonight? Is sold out sold out, or “sold out”?

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Awesome. Got a space on @hfmuehleisen’s couch and made him attend the “fun coder” event on Saturday evening :-) @JSConfEU, here we come!

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esquimalapps Coming soon: the new version of FotoABC

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@rtroncy Erm, the #LODE paper by the #SYNC3 project has been accepted at #DeRIVE2011 http://t.co/hEzpMrnu. Guess you didn’t see this one ;-)

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RT @stoyanstefanov: Blog: Social button BFFs - load’em all plugins asynchronously http://t.co/gHjurwhu

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@rtroncy No, not yet, sorry :-( I just found out about it today. If I find something, I’ll let you know.

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@rtroncy The #SYNC3 project uses #LODE to model events. Not sure @rtroncy knew this!?

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@algermissen Worse: animated GIFs as background images.

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London-bound for the next 3 days for a EU project plenary meeting. Relating news events to blog opinions: sync3.eu @SYNC3

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@mattroweshow Living under a rock? Neutrino and UDP jokes have been, erm, quite popular on Twitter lastly.

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.@RobVesse “Triple counts tell us nothing” says @ldodds at #SemTechBiz. +1. Same for no. of Web pages: http://t.co/NCXAkMwT (2008 blog post)

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RT @byoogle: Yep. RT @holydevil @byoogle I hope your extension takes care of logged out users also - ref: http://t.co/EDdMVSJJ

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stevequezada Facebook Disconnect: a @googlechrome extension that prevents Facebook from tracking you bit.ly/qiODIu by @byoogle

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@sixtus42 Ouch. Purchasing Lion was my last bet. Will have to wait for a fix then…

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Got hit by the mysterious 10.6.8 Wi-Fi issues on our family iMac. bit.ly/oPd5uu. Anyone found a solution?

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Google At @ONAConf, Google News announces new tag for standout content, scoops, story of the day, etc: goo.gl/P3XFe

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RT @chanezon: http://t.co/Spr7lmq8 @realdanlyons about f8: delightful, well written sarcasm is so rare!

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@jrweave Clear. Simply co-tagged the related concepts. But you’re right to highlight this fact.

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RT @jrweave: Keyword search the Graph API, result in : curl -H ‘Accept: text/turtle’ ‘http://bit.ly/qXmVjv // Huge +1

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nicolastorzec Free Stanford classes: Artificial Intelligence ai-class.com; Machine Learning ml-class.com; Databases db-class.com

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@fabien_gandon Definitely! You’d be in good company… I’m biased, though ;-)

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@olafhartig Vanity URLs carry this name for a reason ;-)

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RT @giusepperizzo: EventMedia beta (http://t.co/GOavcpNG) runs on Linked Data API /cc @rtroncy

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RT @olyerickson: Cool that […] @jrweave instrumental in makinta viok Graph API happenbit.ly/8YKgPmsg // +GP

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Catching up on the news: f8.facebook.com (Spoiler alert: don’t get screwed by the [awesome self-ironic] intro)

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RT @SemanticWeb: A report on yesterday’s Schema.org Workshop — A Path Forward - http://t.co/QLHbyTOC #schemaorg #rdfa #microdata #microf

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@dpalmisano LOL, we read the same mailing lists ;-) We both used our own vanity URLs. Suckers :-P

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now speaks : curl -L -H ‘Accept: text/turtle’ graph.facebook.com/tomayac (via J. Weaver cs.rpi.edu/~weavej3/)

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If you care about structured data, follow today! Thanks all at the workshop for excellent Twitter & IRC coverage! +1

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RT @benadida: . @jaymyers you betcha. Slides from my presentation today: http://t.co/DdNGoWfN #schemaorg #rdfa

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agebhard Guha: 10 years of preaching the goodness of structure data did nothing. Give people more traffic, they’ll mark up their pages.

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RT @scorlosquet: Syntax session starts. Guha: “Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google do not care about what syntax is used” #schemaorg

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Does @narphorium know about this initiative around ? => RT @RubenVerborgh: Free your metadata! freeyourmetadata.org

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@arnaudbrousseau Wow. Not a bad start :-) Add some triple rainbow action to that, and your life will be complete.

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@grindcrank Binnen-I, Gender_Gap… Wikipedia rettet mal wieder den Tag.

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@grindcrank Benutzen die bei euch nicht “Studierende”? Den werten Lesenden wird aber trotzdem schlecht…

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.@Spotify, your fscking app just “forgot” all offline music. Guess what I pay for? Now PR folks, RT this! DON’T USE. .

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@fabien_gandon Thanks! No big surprises, the usual suspects ;-)

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@rtroncy @fabien_gandon Meh, #Wordle needs #Java these days? Lame… Could anyone convert the tag cloud to some useful format?

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Stream+ is an app built on top of the API that classifies your posts via machine learning: stream-plus.appspot.com (via @RWW)

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RT @r_macdonald: #webtvws @WebVTT demos of HTML5 video captioning using <track> element with Captionator.js.com
http://t.co/Lem4Xf

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@agebhard I see room for optimization in between the 03:15 and 04:00 interval. Make that 03:15 a 03:50, works perfect for me ;-)

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@linclark @mhausenblas Good catch, but can imagine it will be added in the next couple of days. I should read my RSS feeds more often ;-)

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Spent a super informative day at the Google offices in Tel Aviv (& quick visit to Haifa). Some overlapssPhD. Looking fwd to start!

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Joint special session paper w/ @kojomisch, @arnaudbrousseau, P. Grimm & me accepted2012, Klagenfurt. Full disclosure: we’re co-org.

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RT @cygri: Kudos to @anjeve, @pablomendes and Uli Zellbeck for all their hard metadata work on the new LOD Cloud! lod-cloud.net // +1

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Application Google somehow fell under my radar. Sorry if I’m tweeting Sept 14’s news: bit.ly/oRHrfw ()

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Boarding OK0286 to Tel Aviv for the EU project plenary meeting at the IBM R&D Labs in Haifa. Stopping by Google Tel Aviv on the way.

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RT @jindrichmynarz: I think we need http://t.co/M7SiBjfY just as http://t.co/9lWaPMN8. Too many RDF vocabularies out there.

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RT @cramforce: 8.5% for the pirate party in Berlin is pretty awesome. Way to go left wing techno freelance soy latte intelligentsia.

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@paulca @cramforce Sorry, but I don’t know. Hope you could still save some of your docs.

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aemkei Google Maps Street View Image API is out now: bit.ly/nHDPCa - Embed IMG tags of your streets without JavaScript.

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@stilkov LOL. Made my evening… Keep them coming. Thanks!

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World Ninja Day - Totally sad that no one came: http://t.co/vqCps3zV (via @stilkov) #ROFL

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Social media waterfall by @iA: http://t.co/PhwTtnZE (via @agebhard). Interesting discussion going on. Google+ is great for that!

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@agebhard “Twitter to {Facebook, Xing, __LinkedIn__}” that is, of course…

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@agebhard My current config. is Twitter to {Facebook, Xing, Facebook}. I post some additional Facebook & Google+ stuff manually. Ideal? No.

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@agebhard Nope. The API is read-only at the moment, but people will for sure API-feed their Google+ posts into Twitter soonish.

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RT @edd: Don’t try & fit Google+ into RSS or Twitter. We need to get beyond that. It’s the 21st century after edd.me/qpntilWEa7 // +1

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@tcurdt Time for an alternative open-source client (any1 _evar_ used the original client BTW?). Have pointers for a Mac client?

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Ladies and Gentlemen, and now the moment you’ve all been waitin’ for: Google+ API: bit.ly/oTJDS3

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manusporny Today in RDFa (added ordered list support, changing @src behavior): http://ow.ly/6vlDb

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@cyprienD I am not entirely sure yet, the session planning is still ongoing…

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Your ignite talk at the Google Developer Day in ? Info & Call for Papegoo.gl/hHvmgoyUhddd11

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“If this then thatfttt is a great service. Using it to backup my tweets to Gmail & Evernote. Lot more’s ifttt.como/tMaz0FVt

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Have paginated content? Some notes on rel=“prev”, rel=“next”, & rel=“canonical” from the Google Webmaster blog: http://t.co/jbhSze7g #SEO

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RT @algermissen: Guess that made the round already, but anyway: very good coding style tips for #nodejs http://t.co/DKBlAMPS from (?) @s

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@rtroncy @arnaudbrousseau It was two geniuses, one thought: we both had you in mind independent from each other ;D Now negotiate your salary

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.@giusepperizzo @rtroncy Thanks for inspiring two days at #EURECOM. Looking forward to the #SemanticWeb adventures ahead of us ;-)

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[Germany-related] Please consider signing the petition against suspicion-less data retention http://t.co/nciF1nU

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@kwelle Heute Geburtstag? Wenn dem so ist, dann herzlichen Glückwunsch!

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#iOS Kernel Exploitation slides by @i0n1c from this year’s #Blackhat conference: http://t.co/Uei0otl [PDF] #Jailbreak

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@algermissen +1. So annoying having to look postings up using a Web search engine of ones choice (+w3c +public +$random +mailing list).

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RT @rtroncy: @arnaudbrousseau presenting a decision support tool before developing a web application, a native app or a shell app http: …

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ticket? Check! See you there: jsconf.eu/2011/. Thanks to the ones who make the awesome possible!

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@wizonesolutions It’s pedantic, it’s ironic, it’s useless, but hopefully it’s fun. Go get that counter-pedantry started ;-)

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RT @rtroncy: @arnaudbrousseau “Study of User Interfaces & Tech Stacks for Mobile & Desktop Web Applications” intern at #Google w/ @tomayac

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Congrats @arnaudbrousseau to the successful defense of his Master’s thesis! “If youGoogle, not suppondroid isn’t an option” ;-)

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The slides from my #EURECOM invited talk this morning are avail. at http://t.co/V3vOZi8 (compact form of http://t.co/w6PfZRN) CC: @rtroncy

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Schedule for today: 1) talk at #EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France on invitation by @rtroncy. 2) Master’s thesis defense of @arnaudbrousseau.

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@pablomendes @rtroncy @giusepperizzo Confirmed working! Thanks for the fix :-) Rather, thanks for the feature in the 1st place! Excellent!

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RT @hsivonen: On Google embracing and unilaterally extending the Web platform: http://t.co/mnodNaY

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Changed my blog’s Atom feed URLs from .de to .com domain. This causes all posts to get redistributed as “new” to feed consumers. Sorry!

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RT @dalmaer: More info on the Dash language from Google (errr a crazy and somewhat sad read :/) http://t.co/GCieRBY

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@iand Want mine? Hopelessly unread since weeks…

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Entering the ugly land of screen scraping w/ the very comfortable lib by @tmpvar: github.com/tmpvar/jsdom

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@pablomendes Congratulations :-) Well deserved!

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@pablomendes No hurry at all. Really grateful for your hard work!

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RT @zeminlu: UNIX’ Russian Roulette: sudo [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo “You live”

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@tmpz I use the new Skype. For some reason I was auto-updated from 2.x. I’m slowly getting used to the new Skype, but it still sucks…

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@pablomendes Thanks for the quick hack! Could not get it to work, though. Could you see gist.github.com/1205635 please? Any idea? Thanks!!!

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I found myself opening almost all links shared by @somebitsLinks today, a Twitter mirror of @nelson’s link blog. Thanks, highly appreciated.

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edd A question on displaying data provenance in Wolfram|Alpha edd.me/qdBUlE

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@chanezon All the best again! Loving how you never ever spell AdWords correctly ;-) The ‘W’ is uppercase :-P

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smyles six ways you can help @IPTC launch 1.0 bit.ly/mYnHhd

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Generating the ellipsis character (“…”) on Mac, Windows, and Linuxbit.ly/omoobrIo

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RT @portenkirchner: OMG!!! Rainbow Dividers in #CSS3!!! http://t.co/szDDK8n

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Named Entity Recognition in Tweets: http://t.co/yZoJKCJ, http://t.co/L5xm0h9 // via @rtroncy I didn’t know this. Thanks. #NER #NLProc

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@rtroncy @kidehen I have a “feature request” open w/ @pablomendes for POST support in #DBpedia #Spotlight :-)

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@pablomendes Is there a chance that might support POST on the REST interface? Scripting the demo seems not intended. Thx

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@pborenstein Yes, this page. If you follow the .ssh/config instr. all is OK. Maybe add “Assuming you followed the instr above, to SSH into…”

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RT @jeresig: Finally reached Firefox Tab Zero. I had stuff in there from June. // LOL! Tab Zero is the new Inbox Zero :-D

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@kidehen @rtroncy Cause this ({TEXT}) is what I needed. It harms T&Cs already anyways. Adding {Resource-URI} would also cause > server load.

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@rtroncy @kidehen Meanwhile tomayac.no.de/entity-extraction/{zemanta|alchemyapi|spotlight|opencalais|combined}/{TEXT} might help (unstable).

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@pborenstein Thanks! However, the instr. directly after the creation of a smartmachine still say “To SSH into your machine do:
ssh $X.no.de”

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@sallamar Thanks. I’ll give siege a try. Compiling it as I’m tweeting… http://t.co/R7EFTMc

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RT @rtroncy: New release of the #nerd (Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation) app http://t.co/EFxSlLu Compare #linkeddata NER tools

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@sallamar Interesting. Better in what aspect(s) if you don’t mind the question?

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Learnt about the HTTP server benchmarking tool “ab”. It’s never been easier to kill your server. Thanks for the poi@cramforcemforce!

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The Web Inspector(!)-based #nodeJS debugger node-inspector by @trycatcher is really impressive: http://t.co/AXuGzMq. Thanks for this tool!

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@joyent On your smartmachine landing pages in the how to SSH section, consider adding the now required “-p 12345” in the example. Thanks!

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@arnaudbrousseau Cool! How was it? Whatever the result, congratulations for getting there in the first place!

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#BibTeX export for #GoogleScholar: go to Scholar Preferences, select preferred citation format: http://t.co/Jh3WMTm >CC: @LivingCloud #LaTeX

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I’ve taken the (trivial!) steps to porospt Part of Speech TaggerLPoc) b@pwjazzzz over tJS. Interested?

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@arnaudbrousseau You’re right. I only inspected the non-playing intro frame. Bonus interview question: how /could/ it have been done :-P ?

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RT @portenkirchner: Freddie Mercury Google doodle google.com // That’s why I. <3. This. Company. // Make sure to “view source” it!

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@rtroncy @RubenVerborgh Behold! May the demo Gods be with us :-)

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workshop paper Crowdsourcing Event Detection in YouTube Videos at co-authored w/ @RubenVerborgh, @mhausenblas accepted

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Google fall spring-cleaning: bit.ly/pHhe9v. IMHO nothing among the shut down products that really hurts.

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RT @ryah: […] this summarizes well most debates on #nodejs issues http://t.co/yYHsG80 // Story behind is quite a drama: http://t.co/FJFwzNE

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@llimllib …and why do bullshit sites require ultra-secure passwords? This whole password story is broken.

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Instead of nested asynchronous spaghetti code, consider using @creationix’s step.jsgithub.com/creationix/stepmJpt

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somebitsLinks Evolution of web: Fancy SVG graphic from Google dlvr.it/jmXyK

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RT @ivan_herman: JSON-LD work has a new home: Linked JSON Community Group http://t.co/aX6ng7c // #jsonLD => Gives meaning to your #JSON.

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@moustaki @manusporny It has already moved to the list of accepted groups. You can join there. I was confused at first, too.

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@e2b It’s not really a gaming device, but given the price the set of features is impressive. It’s a resistive screen, though (fingernails).

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@arnaudbrousseau It loads forever, runs kinda slow, but the good thing is that you have enough time to plan your next slingshot angle…

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@bsletten Hehe… I just love this game, the music, too!

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Flashed #Froyo on a 69€ #Android crapTab: http://t.co/RlRLQzh Used this img: http://t.co/XN1v1Y8. Current activity: http://t.co/hdAY62c.

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