Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

April 2014

Facebook kills the public post search endpoint (/search?type=post&q=query):
developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/chan… Bummer, used it a lot.

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stoyanstefanov applinks.org announced at f8. URLs, URLs everywhere. Even in native mobile apps

via Twitter Lite (retweeted on 8:11 PM, Apr 30th, 2014 via Echofon)

tinysubversions @mediagalleries @WikiLiveMon Hey, this one worked, or at least it beat the Twitter trending topics

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 2:41 PM, Apr 30th, 2014 via Echofon)

kerfors Web Intelligence Summer School 2014, 225-29 Aug 2014, Saint-Étienne, France via @MonsieurAZ emse.fr/~zimmermann/WI…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 12:07 AM, Apr 30th, 2014 via Echofon)

addyosmani Slides from ‘Web Components Can Do That?!’ are online addyosmani.github.io/fitc-wccdt/ & some extra resources gist.github.com/addyosmani/114…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 6:15 PM, Apr 29th, 2014 via Echofon)

javisalas Ayer publiqué sobre @WikiLiveMon, que adelanta noticias de última hora cuando se editan varias wikipedias a la vez esmateria.com/2014/04/28/bus…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 1:39 PM, Apr 29th, 2014 via Echofon)

cramforce Finally a use case for DNS TXT records news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7664031

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 9:07 AM, Apr 29th, 2014 via Echofon)

PatrickMeier Use TweetCred to Automatically Identify Credible Tweets bit.ly/1mPDepd (cc @KatieS @Trushar @maria_ress @acarvin @NiemanLab)

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Seeing massive login attempt attacks w/ random usernames in my logs (“Serial console”). Just my instance? // CC: @googlecloud

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@HeidiTworek “[T]he lifecycle of […] events pre-internet & its influence on social media storytelling”—Cool PhD thesis title :) Let’s do it!

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ReaderMeter Not your ordinary data science job: using stats and to help Wikipedia raise money from its 500M readers hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Ca…

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@HeidiTworek Sorry, bitly added a trailing dot to the URL, the correct one is computer.org/portal/web/com…. Hopefully you’re still interested :-)

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You can now “physically” get too-big-to-download sets at @WikimediaDE wikimedia.de/wiki/Datentank… twitpic.com/e2bkso

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Just created G+ & Facebook events for defense: G+: plus.google.com/u/0/events/c61… FB: facebook.com/events/4605444…. Feel invited!

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@RubenVerborgh LOL, this are my corporate and private accounts :-) I guess the corporate account has auto-declined the public event invite…

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apassant Needs some blogging for details, but here’s a schema.org exporter for music music-actions.appspot.com /cc @danbri @adrienjoly

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 5:19 AM, Apr 24th, 2014 via Echofon)

@MaxClm My app counts bots that have set the bot flag. How long did you run it? Numbers may take some time to settle…

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linkedtv Our tutorial slides “Remixing Media on the Web” now online mediamixer.eu/tutorial

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abursuc Project Naptha: an in-browser OCR engine entirely in Javascript fetching text from images projectnaptha.com Quite an achievement.

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~RT @Paul_Kinlan: Finding HTML Comment Nodes in the DOM w/ DOMTreeWalker: buff.ly/Pjyyf7 // Also check our www2012.universite-lyon.fr/proceedings/no…

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All lights on green for : public PhD defense on Tuesday, May 20, 2014 at 12:00 at @BarcelonaTech (UPC.edu).

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Now running in production on Google Compute Engine via node-env-file (npmjs.org/package/node-e…) & forever (github.com/nodejitsu/fore…).

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wsREST Challenges identified at the workshop: docs.google.com/document/d/1SG….
Perhaps some inspiration for ? :-) Comments welcome!

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My friend @RubenVerborgh looks back at (Seoul), (Hyderabad), and / ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2014/04/1…. Good times!

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mdabukozw @tomayac @mediagalleries Great work on the Wiki Live Monitor algorithm. Can’t wait to see how it improves over time.

via Mobile Web (M2) (retweeted on 11:20 AM, Apr 19th, 2014 via Echofon)

newsycombinator Seznam (Czech search company) 3D maps preview beta.mapy.cz/3d?x=16.601204…

via newsycombinator (retweeted on 5:37 PM, Apr 17th, 2014 via Echofon)

WikiResearch stats.grok.se completed a major hardware upgrade, retrieving Wikipedia page view data should be much easier now.

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LDFragments The new Basic Linked Data Fragments server now supports paging: github.com/LinkedDataFrag…
Check it out: data.linkeddatafragments.org/dbpedia?subjec…

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 1:19 AM, Apr 17th, 2014 via Echofon)

Insightful post by @seevl’s @terraces on the new Actions annotations: terraces.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/the…. Privacy does matter!

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candidate via @mediagalleries ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1…. Media gallery pic.twitter.com/0PgpBUe803. Русская весна = Russian spring(!)

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Why Google doesn’t have a lab technologyreview.com/news/525506/wh… “[I]t’s increasingly difficult […] to […] advance a field […] w/o […] corps.”

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rentzsch wondering why certificate revocation is disabled by default on Chrome? Because it’s nearly useless & slows down SSL imperialviolet.org/2012/02/05/crl…

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stilkov Perfect explanation of the Heartbleed bug: xkcd.com/1354/

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 11:43 AM, Apr 11th, 2014 via Echofon)

@Olivier_Aubert But you’re missing out on the time semantics for each cue: the mapping “cue–video fragment” gets lost. Parsing is easy. IMHO

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Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn☃💩 genius @mathias’ slides & notes for his presentation on , , : mths.be/jsu

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alexmikro How likely is your image to become popular? popularity.csail.mit.edu

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emax The most depressing version of 2048 I’ve seen so far “2048: Academic Publishing Edition” (via @karger) games.usvsth3m.com/2048/academic-… :<

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:30 AM, Apr 11th, 2014 via Echofon)

Come see my poster Bots vs. Wikipedians bit.ly/bots-vs-wikipe… & demo wikipedia-edits.herokuapp.com (10:00–11:00, near room 201).

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@rtroncy @hyperaud_io @pchampin All else of their experience (text _not_ overlaid on video) can be achieved w/ of kind metadata. 2/2

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@rtroncy @hyperaud_io @pchampin The only reason IMHO for not using (yet) is annotating non- videos: hyperaud.io/pad/?m=QAN8CZF… 1/2

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nattiyak @raminetinati @DameWendyDBE correlate events in Wikipedia by temporal page views in diff. languages eprints.soton.ac.uk/363631/1/wbsc0…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 9:34 AM, Apr 10th, 2014 via Twitter for Android)

stewhir @nattiyak @raminetinati @DameWendyDBE Cool! Wikipedia time research is popular this year! :) Also @tomayac demos and my Wiki paper

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 9:32 AM, Apr 10th, 2014 via Twitter for Android)

~RT @ricardokawase Refreshing to see research on instead of the usual suspects TWTR & FB. // bit.ly/1i3IYuy

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~RT @milesosborne link to our paper on large scale event detection, tracking and summarisation bit.ly/1lRGUJ4 // Demo avail.?

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stilkov Don’t blame the author of the Heartbleed bug code for making a mistake unless you a) don’t make mistakes yourself or b) are Bruce Schneier

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 4:52 AM, Apr 10th, 2014 via Echofon for Android PRO)

Interesting paper by Tran et al. on Wikipedia’s news portal: l3s.de/~gtran/publica… [PDF]

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@Alheri @HeidiTworek Actually we talked recently-ish. Maybe we could collaborate on a paper for bit.ly/1lREB8Z Realizing this now…

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rtroncy @informor strikes again with thecitybeat.org at live detection of hyper local events ! pic.twitter.com/pKlwSw0EoB

via iOS (retweeted on 4:24 AM, Apr 10th, 2014 via Twitter for Android)

Slides from my demo on breaking news detection/illustration at the Google booth y’day bit.ly/mediagalleries pic.twitter.com/sJ7Rah2XzM

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rtroncy RT @DameWendyDBE Who has spotted @jahendler is taking photo of me taking selfie with his Google glass? pic.twitter.com/YKDBGJK9ao

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Annoyed by Twitter’s “Who to follow” when it’s “Whom to follow”?—I fixed it:chrome.google.com/webstore/detai…f4@ashishgoellk

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eytan google adwords is the new mturk. great paper and presentation by @ipeirotis at ! gabrilovich.com/publications/p…

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~RT @laurens_d_v: @tomayac demonstrating @mediagalleries at the Google booth—awesome tool!4pic.twitter.com/sJ7Rah2XzMM // Thanks :-)

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@RubenVerborgh Dead-simple and intuitive :-) Maybe I could learn from your workflow. Let’s talk about it :-) Bedankt!

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fabien_gandon Slides of W3C Linked Data and semantic web tutorial slidesha.re/1g5Ae2Y @w3c @Inria

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@RubenVerborgh Same here. Still learning how to use it, though, unstable SSH session doesn’t help. Also, why doesn’t nohup do this on Mac?

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~RT @tommyh: Surprised & haven’t come up on this panel. // +1, was waiting for it. No questions neither :-/

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Keynote, coffee break, and panel—the last three hours of4 in a media gallery D).pic.twitter.com/4n1SYvrwNGG

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about the () screen command for multiplexing terminal windows (not only) over SSH: developer.apple.com/library/mac/do… Steep learning curve.

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.@rtroncy “[L]ist of hashtags used for pic.twitter.com/IwhidMw6va ?”—Just4, removed 1 img from Women Who Win event w/ colliding hashtag.

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rtroncy My presentation “Contextualizing Events in TV News Shows” is online at slideshare.net/troncy/context…

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Media gallery of the first 3 days of ; (near-)dedupe’ed, ranked, & compiled based on research from . pic.twitter.com/IwhidMw6va

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@dret @RubenVerborgh @cpedrinaci @wsREST It wasn’t that hard—we were standing on the shoulders of giants:@drett@pautassoo@ruyalarconn :-)

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mhashemi Listen to @Wikipedia iOS app released blog.hatnote.com/post/820876779… /cc @WikiResearch @moltman

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@rtroncy Thanks, I have fixed the URL.

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Slides of our talk Weaving the Web(VTT) of Data are at bit.ly/weaving-webvtt.

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~RT @RubenVerborgh: If we want to see smart clients, we’ve to stop building intelligent servers. slideshare.net/RubenVerborgh/…

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fabien_gandon Linked Data Fragments
offload querying from servers to clients by lightweight partitioning bit.ly/1qfjvRk

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fabien_gandon two-stage NED detecting thematic domains and ensuring high-throughput bit.ly/1qfiDvU

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googleresearch The Social Media Illustrator: Automatically Telling Breaking News Stories with Wikipedia and Social Multimedia, at goo.gl/HXYpAQ

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 7:43 AM, Apr 8th, 2014 via Echofon)

Wikipedia Live Monitor & Social Media Illustrator (basis of @mediagalleries) featured on @googleresearch G+ page: plus.google.com/u/0/+Researcha…

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addyosmani Wrote a @polymer element for authenticating with a Google account: github.com/addyosmani/goo… Quick demo: addyosmani.github.io/google-signin/…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 5:05 PM, Apr 7th, 2014 via Echofon)

~RT @wsREST: Impressions from . Keep them photos or videos coming! twitpic.com/e0jbpt // Generated via

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wsREST Sam Goto’s keynote Prezi from this morning is available at prezi.com/ymvx-imj6uzh/t…. Half the fun w/o the stories, though :-(

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techreview_es Un algoritmo ilustra automáticamente las noticias de última hora. Sus primeras historias ya están en @mediagalleries technologyreview.es/blog/post.aspx…

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Haven’t tried it, but apparently you can now install 4.4.2 on Intel x86 platform PCs: forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php…. Any success stories?

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stilkov Brilliant JavaScript efficiency hints: “Basically all of JavaScript is approximately 8 jQueries. Do the math.” medium.com/cool-code-pal/…

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.@DocXavi Thanks for the RT. I already raised my eyebrow w/ this video today.com/video/today/51… (that you tweeted in twitter.com/DocXavi/status…).

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At , @IBMResearch do a great job at presenting work on surveillance & total control—“Show me all red cars…” All for good of course.

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to redesign across more than 32 million pages: fastcodesign.com/3028366/wikipe… (via @arkaitz)

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.@chordify, presented at by @WBasdeHaas et al. is an amazing service that extracts chords from music: chordify.net/chords/freunde…

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is finally in print. Excited to hold it in my alive, warm hands :-) Thanks, Joaquim Gabarro from @BarcelonaTech .

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You can navigate @bing’s by “hacking” the Ajax URL from the widget: bing.com/widget/entity/…

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aaranged Bing Announces “Knowledge Widget” - On-the-Fly, JavaScript-Based, Entity Extraction & Display - binged.it/1pV2VUS @bing

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by @PatrickMeier et al. collects tweets & helps w/ crowdsourcing classifier data: irevolution.net/2014/04/03/usi…, chato.cl/papers/demo_20… [PDF]

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Danea_Johnson Wiki Page edits ongoing @WikiLiveMon Candidate: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Fort… …

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 10:25 AM, Apr 3rd, 2014 via Echofon)

aboodman Somebody built the app engine logo, and it turned out to be useful. youtube.com/watch?v=kldA4n… What other logos have hidden capabilities?

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 3:09 AM, Apr 3rd, 2014 via Echofon)

sympap Photos from the @ICMR2014 are online: sites.google.com/site/socialmul… If you have more that you want to share, pls send them to me.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 2:59 AM, Apr 3rd, 2014 via Echofon)

Slate How can we instill journalistic ethics in robot reporters? slate.me/1igc8nO !

via SocialFlow (retweeted on 6:30 PM, Apr 2nd, 2014 via Echofon)

.@ndiakopoulos’ new @Slate post “How can we instill journalistic ethics in robot reporters?” opens w/ @WikiLiveMon buff.ly/1lBUMqS

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Wow, Google+ does amazingly good at conserving metadata w/ an upload-download round trip embeddedmetadata.org/social-media-t… (via @rtroncy)

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rtroncy in echo to Susanne Boll, look at how much social media sites preserve metadata, embeddedmetadata.org/social-media-t…. FB does not as many others

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Strict Order, Equal Size (cf. bit.ly/mediagalleries) Twitter-ruled media gallery. @ICMR2014 twitpic.com/e01af1

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ICMR2014 The conference topics are so hot we set off the fire alarm. pic.twitter.com/ENd3ZmfQFu

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 5:19 PM, Apr 1st, 2014 via Echofon)

Slides from my @ICMR2014 work Telling Stories of w/ Social Multimedia bit.ly/mediagalleries

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~RT @sympapadopoulos: @SciWriBy presents Sweet FA: Sentiment, Soccer & Swearing @ICMR2014 // On the news: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2…

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At ; starting off w/ workshop on social multimedia & storytelling run by @sympapadopoulos et al. sites.google.com/site/socialmul…

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rtroncy “StreamGrid: Summarization of large-scale Events” by @sympapadopoulos, fr.slideshare.net/sympapadopoulo… See also @mediagalleries @tomayac!

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Ollie_VL Accept for ACM TOIS “Georeferencing Wikipedia documents using data from social media sources” PDF @ van-laere.net/papers/ACM_TOI…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 1:37 AM, Apr 1st, 2014 via Echofon)