Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

January 2012

mahemoff is.gd/u9LRK8 proposes <picture><source src=”highres.jpg” media=”min-width: 800px” /><source src=”mobile.jpg” /></picture> <@matthias

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Our proposed project, , has been accepted at
the EU projects track of . See you in Lyon, alors…

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The differences between and summarized on one page: bit.ly/AbukHx

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Attending a workshop at @MMLab_UGent. Topics: , , (on the image: @RubenVerborgh presenting). twitpic.com/8dxwsg

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@SeanGolliher Not sure. Honestly I didn’t check the call for presentations yet. Are you going?

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Done w/ my reviews. Paper bidding & actually winning the bids makes writing reviews almost fun. Almost…

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On my way to Ghent, Belgium (@MMLab_UGent) for 1.5 days of geekery hosted by @RubenVerborgh. Hoping for good discussions.

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Several weeks of hacking, 100s of lines of code, all vanished in 8 pages of an paper. Is that the sense of ?

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aemkei Now, what do you think about my “Binary Tetris”? gist.github.com/1672254 - A Tetris clone done in @140bytes. Demo: jsbin.com/egiqul/49

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RT @vrandezo: Some background on the Wikipedia map: bit.ly/yU5ew9 // Why lock the Google+ post? Can’t share :-( bit.ly/wsr5Qv

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Say goodbye to the “Menu” button: bit.ly/wTLAn0. I criticized it forever… May 2010 tweetbit.ly/yS1yFkSM

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RT @vrandezo: Mapping all Wikipedia articles on a map for several languages: km.aifb.kit.edu/sites/wikipedi… // Wow! Stunning beautiful.

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With all the Rich Snippets goodness might come some badness. Report it: bit.ly/yF0xKO (via @mattcutts, CC @mfhepp)

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AssistantExtensions seems like a promising extension platform: shar.es/fbZet. Probably worth a look if you <3 .

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Yay! The syntax ♯t=[start],[end] has landed in the Developer Network () docs mzl.la/wJWWFI

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The single most valuable resource is the Mysterious Errors page: bit.ly/A4DSuE. Not sure if that’s evil…

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~RT @brucel: Got stock browser on Honeycomb? Does bit.ly/xr48oC grab data from camera/mic for you? // Device input FTW!

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The Role of Social Networks in Information Diffusion - Study of the Data Team: scr.bi/xt28DW (via @LenaWagner)

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Dear &aTML5 folks! Consider submitting to 2012 Developers Track at the World Wide Web Conferenbit.ly/w3M3Kjs8s5

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johanoomen Reading ‘Crowdsourcing Event Detection in YouTube Videos’ bit.ly/yYQpPa

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An was jailbroken :-) Thanks @pod2g, @planetbeing, @saurik, @pimskeks, @p0sixninja, @MuscleNerd, @xvolks, &a@iOPKiopk nthe.

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The Google Social Graph API will be shut down on 4/20. It didn’t see the adoption its creators hoped for. feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MK…

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RT @bigboss: New Site Post: &aPreak untethered 5.0thebigboss.org/iphone-4s-ipad…3MDU // Waiting for the storm to calm, though.

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“Web corpus” data to be hosted on Amazon S3 for free: bit.ly/yVwtIo (via @hfmuehleisen)

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MuscleNerd Corona A5 jailbreak nearly ready to pop…please read is.gd/boaaBU carefully!

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sponno How Cool. xkcd.com/1005/ has a hidden message (use photoshop, up exposure). Result attached. yfrog.com/ocfclap

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RT @nicolastorzec, @bill_slawski: : a patent application on Intelligent Automated Assistants was granted to Apple: seobythesea.com/2012/01/apples…

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based img deduplication combined w/ shrinking imgs to squares (for speed) doesn’t work if the dataset has 728x90 banners & 4:3 photos.

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Is there _any_ rational reason why iBooks Author should require Lion ( 10.7.2)? bit.ly/wzUVwZ

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“Wouldn’t going out on the streets & talkSOPPIPA supporters be more productive than blacking out websites?” &bit.ly/AgLa8DnGHi

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@hoeferh “Not due to ” in the sense of that they claim they didn’t enforce the shutdown. My interpretation.

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German performance rights org. say the shutdown in DE isn’t due to them [de-DE] tinyurl.com/7f42fnz (via @eldominante)

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RT @vambenepe: If you had to be on a desert island and could only take 5 pages with you, which would they be? //

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RT @nicolastorzec: co-founder Jerry Yang has left the Board of Directors & all other positions w/ the companyinvestor.yahoo.net/releasedetail.…1QWt

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Just noticed a typo bug (entry.udpated instead of entry.updated) in the, erm, API: bit.ly/xhXIle. Now this is their referer.

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.@agebhard With today’s launch of Google+ Memes, maybe this one will be useful for your situation: twitpic.com/88hy71

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Leave everything that you were doing. Google+ has added native support: bit.ly/yAMv9m productivity—;

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@amit_twit Sure, but at least it’s one worry less. The general rule is: if you don’t trust it, don’t use it :-) Or rather :-|

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1) On a _public_ potentially insecure PC go to goto.google.com/login 2) Scan the QR code w/ _your_ cell & log in there 3) Logged in securely.

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@hblank I double-checked ;-) But thanks for the reminder..ejs

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Looking forward to today’s @hhjs meetup: bit.ly/xuspfr Topics: (@appcelerator) and & Bullet.js.

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Marble Madness game coming to Games. youtube.com/watch?v=TVum3H…, via @aemkei. Who’s up for real-world amzn.to/yLhW4r

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RT @RubenVerborgh: In , you’ll be able to slice images, thanks to . w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css… via @dvdeurse // +1 :-)

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Reading the book. Good Sunday. amazon.com/gp/product/061…. Learning a lot about Randall.

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The crazy history of unusable mobile APIs - James Pearce on Device APIs bit.ly/AsbpaP. All we got is some docs… (vi@dalmaererL5

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RT @AndroidDev: Developers: You really need to take a long, close look at the Style Guide. Once again: developer.android.com/design/ // +1K

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A good tutorial for users to install for running on non-iPhone 4S devices via : funkyspacemonkey.com/spire-install-…

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window.location.getParameter() - It was fun while it lasted. It’s no longer in now, but why? Any insights?

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maximetiran Search+ is best for vague queries like “best song ever” or “hotel paris” that’s when your friends are the best filter

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An interesting Google+ post from Google on Twitter’s reaction on Search Plus Your World: plus.google.com/11689902937591…

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Yay! support has landed in , too after WebKit: goo.gl/Q9Ci8 Thanks to Apple’s Eric Carlson! (via @beverloo)

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cramforce If you complain “new JS feature X is just new syntax for Y”, I think: Awesome I can write a polyfill with a JS compiler.

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RT @mamund: Web Intents Editor’s Draft g.mamund.com/nucju // +1 for getting standardized!

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LAPIS_2012 Did you know your crazy Web services / REST API idea might fit in the LAPIS workshop? lapis2012.linkedservices.org

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: Accessing the Camera & Privacy UI@bruceluidenti.ca/url/64330679kTML5 // +1 to pera team (@portenkirchnerhner)

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French operator “Free.fr’s newer set-top boxes will have built-in femto cells.” bit.ly/zyhDZg |+1 (via @maximetiran)

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When “Related Work” means skimming legacy standards, you’re doing it wrong. I’m apparently doing it wrong. //

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~RT @mwichary: How Google Maps tiles are designed. […core77.com/blog/case_stud…Hr // Fascinating read! (vi@michalbebeps

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@narphorium Your link is (still) broken. Try bit.ly/yMAd0J instead :-) //CC: @fbase

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Spent most of the day writing a demo paper on the project for . Page limit of 2 is a challenge… Submitted, fingers x-ed.

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@danbri Confused by the scary messages around syncing changes all the time, too. Usually the is still there afterwards, tho.

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@tmpz I mainly suck at solving puzzles ;-)

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@konterkariert Good news :-). Apart from the incompatibility (fix still pending), the server was down for a couple of days.

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RT @stilkov: I just love – best web comic evexkcd.com/1000/M8 // +1024

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I find the prominence of the tab on quite annoying.

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“We improved our process for detecting sites that qualify for […ts. […] You should start seeing more [.insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/01/30-sea…R6ddjX

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Watching the video browser showdown at . Interesting to see the different approaches sometimes succeed/fail.

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ILPS_Amsterdam Training data and trained models for language identification on Twitter available: ilps.science.uva.nl/resources/twit…

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P. Obrador presents interesting work: Towards Category-Based Aesthetic Models of Photographs springerlink.com/content/a8304j… (via @ogemarques)

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dhh Why we don’t hire programmers based on puzzles, API quizzes, math riddles, or other parlor tricks, bit.ly/Aax1zK

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RT @ascherpuokob: Build your own low-cost mobile eyetracker: rmantiuk.strony.wi.ps.pl/projects/diy/ great! /

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mholzschlag Speech JavaScript API specification proposal from Google for speech i/o for a variety of use cases: lists.w3.org/Archives/Publi…

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Masahiro Toyoura et al. present impressive & fun work on converting movies into comics2012. Because we cpic.twitter.com/nIkgVBUPVBUP

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Listing to IBM researcher John Smith’s keynote on multimedia semantics at mmm2012.org/keynote-speake… pic.twitter.com/tchiiwek

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Shout-outs to the W3C WG &aOrg at 2012 afternoon keynote “A Big Mess” by Harald Kobit.ly/xFD72bBzIS

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