Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

November 2011

RT @sallamar: Announcing ql.io http://t.co/FZZbYWcc today: http://t.co/ho9dr7g7 #qlio // 1st impression: a DIY YQL for your node.js at home.

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@marcmasdeu I use for my commit messages :-)

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That’s what was most _shared_ on in 2011: on.fb.me/umJIrd. Most _read_ on Facebook & Twittbit.ly/tQTr2vpnBi

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RT @SW_Journal: A new submission (ours) has been uploaded to the Semantic Web Journal () tinyurl.com/cy94pr2 // @RubenVerborgh

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Submitted to Spec Iss on Semantics of Microposts: A consumer’s look on Facebook & Twitter-What do people read&@RubenVerborghenVerborgh

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@marcmasdeu Yeah, I have worked through this tutorial bit.ly/w0fiYC, but finally decided I rather get a life ;-)

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@stuwrigley I would say so. The single-window interface alone is a good argument, let alone the navigation, resource management, etc.

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Bought . Looks like a decent Mac single-window editor w/ citation + code auto-complete support bit.ly/vIGRUh

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@ivan_herman @moustaki @seevl Also stumbled upon missing API (& sign-up) info. Wanted to check onLD impl., but no cookie for me.

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@onlythoughtwork Yepp. All the interesting stuff is open, incl. control centers. It’s very welcoming at .

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RT @olyerickson: I still believe in grammar, punctuation and proper capitalization, even in a post-Twitter universe… // +1 to that!

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Heading home from Geneva, Switzerland after a super fascinating visit to the Large Hadron Collider . twitpic.com/7ko0qf

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Off to Geneva, Switzerland for a geek day at . Friend knows someone who knows someone at the particle accelerator. bit.ly/vmZPHd

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@grindcrank Ich musste ein bisschen googeln, um die Brillanz dieses Tweets zu verstehen. Exzellent :-) Horizonterweiternd.

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@jindrichmynarz I’d expect clearly just the title. In HTML speak: the <title> or the main <H1> header. Everything else is part of the body.

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Who tweets “Twitter” on Twitter & facebooks “Facebook” on Facebook is in good c The #NLProc stats from my SNS analysis are in…

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@tommyh @juansequeda @Spotify Yeah. That’s an unwritten lawfy will always forget your sync’ed music before long-haul flights.

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@tommyh @juansequeda I was on @Spotify Premium & loved it for the first weeks. Main issue for me: limitation to 3 offline devictify

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works together w/ again. +1 news, as it means globally unique identifiers: bit.ly/vgV40z (via @edsu)

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Learn how to use : html5rocks.com/tutorials/cors/ (via @ChromiumDev) // …API providers, get CORS enabledbit.ly/tKbHsRsO (vi@webr3r3)

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Some arguments against in Evolving from the IE Blog: bit.ly/tRKSe7 (indirectly via @BrendanEich). FWIW I’m neutral.

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RT @gromgull: Damnit people […] 10min of googling gives me 20 related work papers to read. I wanted to WRITE a paper! // LOL. I so know that

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@cramforce I hope not. If so, I’ll write an extension so that it doesn’t :-)

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RT @srishivananda: APIs are a Pain bit.ly/uwSHgm. I’ve seen the sneak preview & it’s amazing innovation@sallamaramar & team // +1

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Dear Ingmar Eveslage from the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin: http://t.co/mlYDQEab #gddDE #gdd11 #EvenBadEnglishIsGoodEnglish

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Speaker of the in Disaster Management talk at starts to talk in German, asks if that’s OK, 1/3 of people leave.

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Interesting concept k-anonymity allows for flexibly protecting user #privacy w/ crossing database tables: http://t.co/L4sbKmwS #gddDE #gdd11

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@cyprienD Je suis à la salle 7. À plus!

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@agebhard Twitter search operators seem not much known. That’s why I tweeted the query :-)

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One power Twitter search to rule them all: ( OR -“RT ” -pin -pins)

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@jerem @dakoller I’m at , yes. Mostly around room 7.

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RT @JoergM: Google underestimated interest in Berlin university talks. Room’s much too small // People sitting on the floor(!)

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Remembering my 1st email address (early 90’ies) during the keynote: thomas.steiner@ikg.rt.bw.schule.de

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@joedevon Good to hear. If you’re really into the #MediaFragments topic, there’s a Firefox build w/ native Media Fragments support.

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@joedevon Flash (click to play) shouldn’t be a problem as it’s all #HTML5 video. Rather some loadedmetadata event listener issue. Reload?

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mischat Facebook admits tracking, recording & linking sites u visit, to ur email, friends, preferences, IP address, read.bi/t4BaeQ58lx

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“Who were you, DenverCoder9? What did you see?!” http://t.co/5ai4cgf6 #XKCD nailed it again. Been there, asked that question…

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@mattroweshow Cool! Looking forward to the CfP :-D

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My just pushed User Script adds temporal NPT #MediaFragments URI support to Safari, Firefox & Chrome http://t.co/8wfWs07I #W3C

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Spent the day on a User Script that adds support to browsers. It even listens for DOMNodeInserted events. Release tomorrow.

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Pushed a new version of the #MediaFragments #JavaScript library. Fixes an NPT bug, adds start<end checks in SMPTE: http://t.co/KNMCPT1F #W3C

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Using the #MediaFragments URIs library for media fragments à la “http;//ex.org/video.webm#t=5-10”? Latest version: http://t.co/KNMCPT1F #W3C

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Created a TSV file that gets converted by #JavaScript to JavaScript & then eval’ed by JavaScript to pass QUnit tests: http://t.co/6VzvRxu1

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@petele Thanks. Now following @ebidel, too. Credit where credit is due :-) This is an amazing presentation!

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Bleeding-edge : bleedinghtml5.appspot.com. Feat. Web Audio, Fullscreen, WebRTC, & Web Intents (@Paul_Kinlannlan &@mostblindlind &@peteletele)

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@vambenepe “…during the \texttt{GET} operation…” :-)

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somebitsLinks ThinkUp Hits 1.0!: Archive Twitter, Facebook, Google+ dlvr.it/wD3tY

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Proposed a @webinale session titled “Ménage à troaOrg, data API, and Chrome Extensions” (yay!). Hope it’s not too late!?

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somebitsLinks SpiderDuck: Twitter’s real time URL fetcher dlvr.it/wBGj5

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API now in dev channel: goo.gl/odZQK // Promising use case: stream video chunks from >1 CDNs (via @ChromiumDev)

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@stilkov Looking good :-) No comments so far…

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The Mysterious Errors page exists for a reason: tug.org/errors.html \pdfendlink ended up in different nesting level than \pdfstartlink

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.@RWW ⒠ Would ppl w/ “links #WiFi SSIDs opt-out on a Web form? ⒡ It’s a standard others can adopt. ⒢ It’s bad news Friday ;D (my opinion)

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Now you can opt-out your #WiFi access point from Google’s location database by appending “_nomap” to its SSID: http://t.co/0MlUPWR5 #Privacy

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˜“Don’t expire the login cookie […] if mobile web apps are to be an alternative to nativeis.gd/hMRwix/IfuQm@mahemoff@mahemoff) // +1

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@marcmasdeu Rule no. 1: it’s never the student’s fault. Rule no. 2: it’s always the teacher’s fault. Rule no. 3: Else, Rule no. 1 applies.

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vambenepe “Siri, why is applidium.com down?” “They supposedly reverse-engineered my protocol.” “Thanks Siri.” “I feel violated.” “Sorry Siri.”

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iPhone 4S Siri protocol reverse-engineered: http://t.co/9VTZ3DfA (via @russenreaktor > @applidium) #Siri #iPhone #iOS5

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On the Google+ technology stack: http://t.co/klWO2ob4 #GooglePlus (via @cramforce)

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@stilkov Yeah, I noticed this issue, too. I think @googlereader is trying to be overly smart w/ your feed: blogs.innoq.com/st/feed/

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~RT @danbri: Posted Using #RDFa 1.1 Lite with #SchemaOrg http://t.co/vYKh29Ra while we wait for the spec to be finalized // +1

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Submitted to the demos track. Now this is the 2nd step towards w/ @RubenVerborgh et al.

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Screencast of a extension I’m working on for bit.ly/filmstrip Video shot detection for event summarization.

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Faster Web apps via el.insertAdjacentHTML(“beforeend”, “html”) instead of el.innerHTML += “html” http://t.co/vaG7ez9t #HTML5 +1

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A dramatic title (Google+ is dead), but some valid points on slate.me/toZPfo (tweeting as me myself)

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@algermissen Indeed a great read. Saved my life back in university. Sigh, old timesâ€AG

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agebhard The long-awaited @IPTC rNews 1.0 documentation is now live at rnews.org.

Happy implementing!

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“Asking computer nerds to design social software is a little bit like hiring a Mormon bartender” http://t.co/n8nfqCMP, via @gromgull @danbri

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@algermissen Ah, the late-night sweet smell of is in the air: bit.ly/tNqWqZ

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headbang of the day: \usepackage{graphicx} ≠ \usepackage{graphics}. Journal editors, update ur fscking templates! Th@RubenVerborghgh!

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RT @ststaab: 892 full paper submissions received for // We are the 0.112107623%. CC: @RubenVerborgh

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Submission to on ? Check. Thanks, @RubenVerborgh, @dvdeurse et al. for the honor to collaborate on the paper :-)

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RT @David: Stop what you’re doing right now! The Berlin Zoo has a new baby hippo. A BABY HIPPO! http://t.co/QtXnk7dI

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RT @portenkirchner: How did Google do a barrel roll? http://t.co/2tdr7Nb3 #CSS #CSS3 // CC: @dret :-D

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~RT @t: HTML WG chairs decide to revert adding <data> and dropping of <time> & pubdate: http://t.co/Mgmp7ERx // #HTML5 #W3C

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@Paul_Kinlan @slightlylate My fellow @RubenVerborgh & me are working on a paper around semantically enricents.

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@cgutteridge LOL. Make sure to post the monocle dropping videos to public-lod ;-) Enjoy the conference.

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@dret I didnt list all properties, just the first 1s to give you an idea. -webkit is the vendor prefix. View source & you see -moz, -o, -ms…

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Having crossed ways w/ @RubenVerborgh at at was so far the single best thing to happen for . Just sayin’. Merci

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@cgutteridge This SWIB 2011? http://t.co/dgBc2HDb If so, I know that it exists. (Can’t DM back. You no haz follow me.)

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@dret -webkit-animation-name: roll;
-webkit-animation-duration: 4s;
-webkit-animation-iteration-count: 1;

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olyerickson Totally cool: type “do a barrel roll” into Google!!

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@jindrichmynarz …or learning Linux w/ an early Debian: a good learning experience that builds strong characters ;-)

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Caught up on the exciting Yahoo! announcements around the #Manhattan & #Mojito #Cocktails. #JavaScript everywhere! +1 http://t.co/yw1iZHQX

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RT @stilkov: Google vs. Web Architecture bit.ly/spmRkq // A night’s sleep would have done no harm, but I agree w/ the core arguments.

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@stilkov @sallamar As I said not defending it, just trying to put it in context (me dislike). Of course all views my own. I had no insights.

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@sallamar @stilkov I feel w/ you & dont like it. Counter-example on blindly following: Flash indexing got better, but trend away from Flash.

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@sallamar @stilkov I wouldn’t say “punish”. I would say it gives bad sites a chance :-) It fights the symptoms, it doesn’t fix the Internet.

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The #iOS Performance session by @jury is the single most useful session at the #iOS5TechTalk. Instruments profiler FTW! // #iOS5TT #ittwt

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@stilkov @sallamar I’ve no Google inside view on the issue, but I guess your question should rather be “what’s wrong w/ the Internet?”. Or?

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~RT @algermissen: Time for @mnot’s POE http://t.co/mhXhB73r Google bot does POST http://t.co/Gu0o3rbM // Haven’t heard of POST Once Exactly.

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~RT @prototypo: Surely “elem.parentNode.removeChild(elem);” is a good place for some syntactic sugar. //#ript

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@esquimalapps Some good ideas for your FotoABC app :-) Work ahead.

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Lots of useful hints for design at the Designing Apps session at . Guess the designers of Game Center missed that one.

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@aivlis_s I forward to @RubenVerborgh. I’m just the 2nd author who brags about the paper ;-) Ruben is the one who’s to credit. Really!

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Also, your paper will be included in a special issue of Multimedia Tools & Applications. Good day :-) Bedan@RubenVerborghosREST

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Your paper Description & InteractionTful Services for Automatic Discovery & Execution has been acceAF@RubenVerborghVerborgh

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The Early Edition app was feat. in keynote. Looks stunning (& ader supporbit.ly/rxB0n4KS5TT

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Listening to the keynote. Audience remains silent at “applaud-here” spots. Clash of cultures, this ain’t America ;-)

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@mamund Fair concerns. In any case, building sane sites or alternatively robots.txt are your pals. Crawler will rewrite onload POSTs only.

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to Berlin for the . Looking forward to a day of iPhone / iPad geekery, while I’m mostly an @appcelerator dev.

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Update to my last tweet: Official #Yandex announcement on them joining #SchemaOrg http://t.co/zichlAYh (ru_RU, use Translate, via @Verona_M)

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@mikekelly85 @stilkov MIght have been as stupid as a name thing. Maybe people felt like not forcing their “things” in a “blog post format”.

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@stilkov Fully agree. As long as we don’t describe it as “real world”.

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@stilkov Fair point. Still #AtomPub gets mentioned 1st thing in many early #REST intros/tutorials (eg http://t.co/UBGFsG4P). Let’s move on…

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@dret @vambenepe Not sure I agree w/ the comparison. Unicode IMHO did take over the world for serious software projects; only for few.

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@vambenepe @stilkov Woah, heresy ;-) But I guess people have “voted by feet” agaiAtom & for simple HTTP interfaces.

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New Google Reader: http://t.co/rU4wZz0s If you <3 it, perfect. If you hate it, here’s your data, gift-wrapped for you to leave. +1 #OpenData

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