#VLDB2013 paper on Google’s #F1 database that powers #AdWords: http://t.co/YheWT0b7jL. Daily bread of my role “Customer Solutions Engineer”.
kdnuggets New Book: Twitter Data Analytics, guide to data collection, management, and analysis - download free pre-print bit.ly/1co5c5Z
RT @RubenVerborgh: In two weeks, a brand new version of #OpenRefine will be released, together with our Using OpenRefine book: http://t.co/…
@bkeegan I had the same feeling when I read the paper… Also, the name is unlucky.
@Flickr Things people do w/ the #NewFlickrCam, visualized by #TomsPhD. twitpic.com/day4jh
@cocoanutapps Thanks for making this a free upgrade :-) Really appreciate it. Great work everybody!
@AmrapaliZ Hehe, that’s why my work email is tomac@google . com :-)
Impressive ranked social media coverage from the past 7 days of the #Yosemite #RimFire (via #TomsPhD) twitpic.com/daqwn3
RT @cramforce: Google Hangouts will move to WebRTC (and support HD) http://t.co/QQNRbDn5yr
#jsPDF by @MrRio allows you to create #PDF files on the client via #JavaScript: github.com/MrRio/jsPDF (MIT license)
#AdBlock want to use crowdfunded money to buy ads for AdBlock. We have to go deeper. https://t.co/yUqMKAp9k5
krinndnz It’s pretty sweet that you can watch the global knowledgebase assimilating something in real time: wikipedia-irc.herokuapp.com #livinginthefuture
#Tweetledee, a PHP lib by @csimpkins, revives your as of #Twitter API v1.1 broken #RSS search feeds & more https://t.co/kykIoZ63bQ
#Google are looking for participants in remote & on-site #usability studies from around the world: https://t.co/zQAtdj2ulG #GOOG
Great TL;DR summary by @bobdc of recent #DBpedia overview paper on its past, present, & future (hi @Wikidata): http://t.co/NI5HQqGAoq
#Wikipedia Live Monitor (@WikiLiveMon instance) back after planned power shutdown on Sat. wikipedia-irc.herokuapp.com indep’ly avail. on @heroku
Another scheduled downtime of #Wikipedia Live Monitor (@WikiLiveMon) this w/e due to a power shutdown in the office. wikipedia-irc.herokuapp.com
Ugly code that does what it should: auto-balance (twitpic.com/d9wep2) unbalanced (twitpic.com/d9weij) media galleries for #TomsPhD.
igrigorik curious about how WebP image compression works under the hood? Technical deep-dive to explain the magic: bit.ly/1535mAo.
@spbail Looks like you’re like-minded to appreciate Whom to follow for Twitter https://t.co/bf7M2XWHXd and #xkcd 37 https://t.co/9MsVQkczf1
Wentworth Miller #gay http://t.co/Xla9dvYZRc [Edits 5, Editors 4, Langs 4, Stories https://t.co/OuVZCU5Fz3] #LGBT rights! via @WikiLiveMon
manusporny Yeah, baby! JSON-LD 1.0 approved by RDF WG for implementation phase (CR): ow.ly/o8qkE #jsonld #w3c
aaranged The Day the Knowledge Graph Exploded (+50.4%) - bit.ly/12p6YRa @dr_pete #knowledgegraph
.@Oatmeal on how & why to use whom in a sentence http://t.co/3dNjcSQ6H5 // For #Twitter, use https://t.co/eWpHeTevQg #Grammar (ty @stilkov)
#Mailvelope: #PGP encrypted Web mail w/ #GMail support: https://t.co/VtEy64Lduq. Caveats: external editor, no search, hassle. (via @tcurdt)
RT @nicolastorzec: Data Revision Control: adapting GIT to simple CSV data. http://t.co/pBjdAxFsag
#Wikipedia Live Monitor (@WikiLiveMon) back after planned downtime. This concerns the tweeting/emailing instance, not wikipedia-irc.herokuapp.com
@bsletten @stilkov @manusporny @danbri You mean in the browser or for downloaded HTML docs? For both cases, CSS selectors mostly work OK.
@bsletten @juansequeda My iPhone 4S front costed me 80€ when I broke it once, the cheapest price was 70€, but the shop seemed too shabby.
@stilkov @manusporny @danbri Well, you have the right person in the “@-mentions” list of this tweet ;-)
@stilkov @manusporny @danbri Syntax examples are one thing, people relying on search engines processing all syntaxes another. Sans GOOG hat.
@stilkov @mfhepp @raymcdermott Saying this as a neutral fact, not judging either tech. Read @danbri’s comment on https://t.co/G0Dfmwf6dI.
@stilkov @mfhepp @raymcdermott Careful, the API can be declared dead, #Microdata per se has a huge (#SchemaOrg -driven) deployment base.
RT @Brown_Moses: Here’s my popular post on verifying videos, with a video from Egypt used as an example http://t.co/b9IpXfV7st
RT @TwitterEng: An inside (and detailed) look at re-architecting Twitter. Plus, a new Tweets-per-second peak: 143,199 Tweets. https://t.co/…
@RubenVerborgh @MMLab_UGent @iMinds @ugent Congratulations! You guys form a great #TeamBelgium. Honored to work w/ you! Bedankt.
@distobj Same here. Bummer the extension is a bit slow, so you still see #W3schools results pop up before they are gone for goodâ€#W3foolsls
Good G+ post by @aaranged raising important questions reg. #Microdata, #RDFa, & search engine support https://t.co/G0Dfmwf6dI (correct URL)
Scheduled downtime: #Wikipedia Live Monitor (@WikiLiveMon) will most probably be down during the weekend due to a network reconfiguration.
Following @rtroncy’s example, I’ll end paper #reviews w/ “If you wish to contact me after reading the review, I’m $name ($email, $twitter).”
@hfmuehleisen Shortcut for fullscreen feels weird to a mouse kid like me. I want the little green button to be my fullscreen affordance :-)
@hfmuehleisen Combine this w/ #RightZoom (http://t.co/MMZl9rlsqL) for immediate satisfaction. Thank me later.
Constructive criticism of @Yahoo’s new #Android weather app that ignores Android #UI patterns: http://t.co/FpA8fV73si (via @ade_oshineye)
manusporny The downward spiral of Microdata (people abandoning ship): ow.ly/nXtqO #rdfa #w3c #microdata
“Learning the meaning behind words” #NLP #NLProc http://t.co/Cl8HmFlUoM
somebitsLinks Reporting Snowden: Detailed profile of Laura Poitras, one of the reporters Snowden contacted dlvr.it/3nxv38
@rtroncy Can you put the boilerplate text somewhere public, so that others can copy & paste it, add their name, and start a revolution?
@cygri @RubenVerborgh Check this code for the non-Flash way to do it, courtesy of @Trello: http://t.co/c7enZGIaxk
RT @RubenVerborgh: Kudos to @rtroncy for putting his name under a review so we can contact him for details. I think non-anonymity gives hig…
@alexmilowski “[…] full headless browser” when all I need is a canvas ;-) But as I wrote earlier, it would’ve been my last resort.
@alexmilowski Had thought of PhantomJS as last resort, but overhead would be huge. Meanwhile got node-canvas to work: http://t.co/WH1Thmp5ys
@Paul_Kinlan request.get({url:url,encoding:null},function(err,res,body){img.src=new Buffer(body,’binary’);}); The “encoding:null” fixed it.
@Paul_Kinlan Strange. Will try to build a minimally non-working example tomorrow. Thanks for your reply.
@Paul_Kinlan Indeed: https://t.co/Xg1SFohKxc. Hitting weird issues w/ Cairo: out of memory (PNGs), stream issue (JPGs). Encountered that?
Failing to move #HTML5 canvas stuff from client to server. Anybody got #nodeJS node-canvas’s drawImage() function to work on #MacOSX 10.5.8?
Background on #WebKit removing the #Microdata #JavaScript APIs https://t.co/Sncs7UwHRe “Failed to gather support from authors & engine devs”
RT @sil: Responding to @timbray’s https://t.co/VaaBdbnCk5 because it’s about fear of Google and Facebook, not of random apps: http://t.co/8…
Wow, @YahooNews is now following @WikiLiveMon: https://t.co/RSigMC6frv. Improvements for #Wikipedia Live Monitor are in the pipeline…
RT @mahemoff: Make any Android device a ChromeCast receiver. I really hope this isn’t pulled from Play store https://t.co/aeMlqFNtvy
Overview slides on #Wikidata w/ nice illustrations on #HowTo deal w/ contradicting (#RDF) facts by @BrightByte: http://t.co/ypcWYHYNwW [PDF]
The state of #Wikidata, presentation at #Wikimania by @vrandezo et al.: https://t.co/v51sQwTYH0
Best practices for publishing large #RDF dumps by S. Hellmann (#DBpedia); motivated by unofficial #Wikidata dump: http://t.co/QLFaaXlj2t
~RT @ebidel: HTML Imports (<link rel=”import”>) flag landed in Canary 30. Early days w/ bugs. pic.twitter.com/Lpsz5A6NTZ // +1 CC: @stilkov
“This could be just the beginning.”—Uniting what belongs together#SocialMediaIllustratoror @WikiLiveMone#TomsPhDstwitpic.com/d7cv3vALht
Added xywh.js (spatial) & mediafragments.js (temporal) #MediaFragments URI #polyfill (-s) to @Modernizr #HTML5 Wiki: https://t.co/udj9X3kWDp
@cramforce HTML 4.01 Tables are the new CSS. Extra points for using the valign attribute.
~RT @WikiResearch: WikiPulse—A News-Portal Based on Wikipediarxiv.org/abs/1308.1166j6 //Seems to predat#Wikipediaia Live Monito@WikiLiveMonon
somebitsLinks Mozilla Persona supports Gmail: Use Persona to log in with your Google credentials dlvr.it/3mnxpP
A journey into the #Google #KnowledgeGraph: bit.ly/148aLyL by @dr_pete. Great compilation. (via @aaranged)
.@ReaderMeter’s #WikiSym keynote deck http://t.co/My0UmM4cFF feat. #Wikipedia Live Monitor (http://t.co/xPWmz3XZr8, @WikiLiveMon, slide 15).
Impressions from #Wikimania, #WikiSym, & #OpenSym (via #TomsPhD). Apparently Hong Kong’s fascinating for attendants. twitpic.com/d749e7
@MrGreenH Hi there. Just merged & extended your xywh.js pull request. Thanks, mate! Enjoy your internship at @mahayaco. Cheers! CC: @rtroncy
Just merged a pull request by “mrgreenh” (a @EURECOM student of @rtroncy) that adds scaled image support to xywh.js: https://t.co/4hpSQihNPZ
@amit_twit Hi Amit. I can recommend http://t.co/Hao8SMphLt. It’s a rock-solid, decent-looking thesis template. #PhD #TomsPhD #LaTeX
aaranged Action added to #schema.org (#schema.org gets its verb) - bit.ly/1bcsDyB
~RT @vrandezo: Posted a […] potentially big idea: a multilingual #Wikipedia http://t.co/OC9LL1Z0p5 // Sounds interesting, albeit NP hard…
#LaTeX tip ahead: #HowTo inhibit page breaks in the middle of references w/ #BibLaTeX: tex.stackexchange.com/a/43275 (#TomsPhD CC: @RubenVerborgh)
#Wikipedia edit history visualized as “history flows”: http://t.co/htsSZp8txd. 2004 CHI paper by @medialab & @IBMResearch (via @nat__gross)
~RT @fuzheado: @ReaderMeter gives shootout to @WikiLiveMon as community tool created out of scholarly research. #WikiSym #OpenSym #Wikimania
Listen to #Wikipedia by @mhashemi & S. LaPorte: http://t.co/k0fi7u3XGb Audible Wikipedia editing activity. Blog post: http://t.co/AtPVfKr3Xg