#VLDB2013 paper on Google’s #F1 database that powers #AdWords: static.googleusercontent.com/external_conte…. 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
RubenVerborgh In two weeks, a brand new version of #OpenRefine will be released, together with our Using OpenRefine book: ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2013/08/3…
@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
cramforce Google Hangouts will move to WebRTC (and support HD) gigaom.com/2013/08/28/han…
#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. campaign.getadblock.com/adblock-it-s-t…
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 github.com/chrissimpkins/…
#Google are looking for participants in remote & on-site #usability studies from around the world: survey.googleratings.com/wix/p5092995.a… #GOOG
Great TL;DR summary by @bobdc of recent #DBpedia overview paper on its past, present, & future (hi @wikidata): snee.com/bobdc.blog/201…
#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 chrome.google.com/webstore/detai… and #xkcd 37 chrome.google.com/webstore/detai…
Wentworth Miller #gay es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wentworth… [Edits 5, Editors 4, Langs 4, Stories twitter.com/Fenetta/status…] #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 theoatmeal.com/comics/who_vs_… // For #Twitter, use chrome.google.com/webstore/detai… #Grammar (ty @stilkov)
#Mailvelope: #PGP encrypted Web mail w/ #GMail support: github.com/toberndo/mailv…. Caveats: external editor, no search, hassle. (via @tcurdt)
nicolastorzec Data Revision Control: adapting GIT to simple CSV data. theodi.org/blog/adapting-…
#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 plus.google.com/10694306299015….
@stilkov @mfhepp @raymcdermott Careful, the API can be declared dead, #Microdata per se has a huge (#SchemaOrg -driven) deployment base.
EliotHiggins Here’s my popular post on verifying videos, with a video from Egypt used as an example brown-moses.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/the-pr…
TwitterEng An inside (and detailed) look at re-architecting Twitter. Plus, a new Tweets-per-second peak: 143,199 Tweets. blog.twitter.com/2013/new-tweet…
@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 good..#W3foolsls
Good G+ post by @aaranged raising important questions reg. #Microdata, #RDFa, & search engine support plus.google.com/10694306299015… (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 (blazingtools.com/right_zoom_mac…) for immediate satisfaction. Thank me later.
Constructive criticism of @Yahoo’s new #Android weather app that ignores Android #UI patterns: androiduipatterns.com/2013/08/yahoo-… (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 feedproxy.google.com/~r/GoogleOpenS…
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: stackoverflow.com/questions/1752…
RubenVerborgh Kudos to @rtroncy for putting his name under a review so we can contact him for details. I think non-anonymity gives higher-quality reviews!
@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: twitter.com/tomayac/status…
@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: github.com/GoogleChrome/C…. 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 webkit.org/blog/2968/last… “Failed to gather support from authors & engine devs”
sil Responding to @timbray’s tbray.org/ongoing/When/2… because it’s about fear of Google and Facebook, not of random apps: kryogenix.org/days/2013/08/1…
Wow, @YahooNews is now following @WikiLiveMon: twitter.com/YahooNews/foll…. Improvements for #Wikipedia Live Monitor are in the pipeline…
mahemoff Make any Android device a ChromeCast receiver. I really hope this isn’t pulled from Play store play.google.com/store/apps/det…
Overview slides on #Wikidata w/ nice illustrations on #HowTo deal w/ contradicting (#RDF) facts by @brightbyte: brightbyte.de/repos/papers/2… [PDF]
The state of #Wikidata, presentation at #Wikimania by @vrandezo et al.: docs.google.com/presentation/d…
Best practices for publishing large #RDF dumps by S. Hellmann (#DBpedia); motivated by unofficial #Wikidata dump: lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki…
~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.#SocialMediaIllustratorr ⚭@WikiLiveMonn#TomsPhDDtwitpic.com/d7cv3vt
Added xywh.js (spatial) & mediafragments.js (temporal) #MediaFragments URI #polyfill (-s) to @Modernizr #HTML5 Wiki: github.com/Modernizr/Mode…
@cramforce HTML 4.01 Tables are the new CSS. Extra points for using the valign attribute.
~RT @WikiResearch: WikiPulse—A News-Portal Based on Wikipediaarxiv.org/abs/1308.11666 //Seems to predate#Wikipediaa Live Monitor@WikiLiveMonn
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 slideshare.net/dartar/descend… feat. #Wikipedia Live Monitor (wikipedia-irc.herokuapp.com, @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: github.com/tomayac/xywh.j…
@amit_twit Hi Amit. I can recommend openwetware.org/wiki/LaTeX_tem…. 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 multilingua#Wikipediaimeta.wikimedia.org/wiki/A_proposa…p5 // Sounds interesting, albeit NP hard…
chrismessina Yesterday was my last day at Google. It’s a bittersweet moment, but I’m thrilled about what’s next!
chrismessina.me/b/13865613/lea… #toTheFuture!
#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”: alumni.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/paper…. 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: listen.hatnote.com Audible Wikipedia editing activity. Blog post: blog.hatnote.com/post/568563151…