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):
https://t.co/Ynm2NesEZ5 Bummer, used it a lot. #f8

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

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

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#TomsPhD gets formally announced at @BarcelonaTech: http://t.co/M2Ae155c5V. Exciting :-)

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RT @kerfors: Web Intelligence Summer School 2014, 225-29 Aug 2014, Saint-Étienne, France #WebofData via @MonsieurAZ http://t.co/zd0VIGd4z1

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RT @addyosmani: Slides from ‘Web Components Can Do That?!’ are online http://t.co/utdypMoDTw & some extra resources https://t.co/00XOUt7puâ…

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RT @javisalas: Ayer publiqué sobre @WikiLiveMon, que adelanta noticias de última hora cuando se editan varias wikipedias a la vez http://t.…

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

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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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RT @ReaderMeter: Not your ordinary data science job: using stats and #bigdata to help Wikipedia raise money from its 500M readers http://t.…

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@HeidiTworek Sorry, bitly added a trailing dot to the URL, the correct one is http://t.co/iGerAvUE8I. Hopefully you’re still interested :-)

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You can now “physically” get too-big-to-download #OpenData sets at @WikimediaDE https://t.co/Zqym7Gy4Ht #auftanken http://t.co/mZu7WaRWfJ

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Just created G+ & Facebook events for #TomsPhD defense: G+: https://t.co/rv61uyR1KB FB: https://t.co/auBhcPV8ZO. 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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RT @terraces: Needs some blogging for details, but here’s a http://t.co/g8tUrcdz0f exporter for music https://t.co/kWVilzh3yS /cc @danbri @…

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@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: http://t.co/HgJXZtokEd // Also check our http://t.co/qV62vYgMuh

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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 #NodeJS in production on Google Compute Engine via node-env-file (https://t.co/ggmAknDBzX) & forever (https://t.co/kbpAyYHpsq).

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RT @wsREST: Challenges identified at the #WSREST2014 workshop: https://t.co/IEaFHXkafI.
Perhaps some inspiration for #WSREST2015? :-) Comme…

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My friend @RubenVerborgh looks back at #WWW2014 (Seoul), #WWW2011 (Hyderabad), and #wsREST2014/#LDOW2014 http://t.co/ceftIJdMIU. Good times!

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

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RT @newsycombinator: Seznam (Czech search company) 3D maps preview http://t.co/65dU5sb6TT

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

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Insightful post by @seevl’s @terraces on the new #SchemaOrg Actions annotations: http://t.co/N6aJv0phZC. Privacy does matter!

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#BreakingNews candidate via @mediagalleries http://t.co/MQWRYqxqZ0. Media gallery http://t.co/0PgpBUe803. Русская весна = Russian spring(!)

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Why Google doesn’t have a #research lab http://t.co/MSWxgcQMHA “[I]t’s increasingly difficult […] to […] advance a field […] w/o […] corps.”

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RT @rentzsch: wondering why certificate revocation is disabled by default on Chrome? Because it’s nearly useless & slows down SSL https://t…

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

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@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☃@mathiasius @mathias’ slides & notes for his pres #pt#Emths.be/jsuo/tf5831aDI4

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

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RT @emax: The most depressing version of 2048 I’ve seen so far “2048: Academic Publishing Edition” (via @karger) http://t.co/JzbnJNUE7m :<

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Come see my #WWW2014 #WebSci poster Bots vs. Wikipedians http://t.co/NSAX3PQU4k & demo http://t.co/At4j6mUm8P (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/ #WebVTT of kind metadata. 2/2

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@rtroncy @hyperaud_io @pchampin The only reason IMHO for not using #WebVTT (yet) is annotating non-#HTML5 videos: http://t.co/5I95Ysvb0G 1/2

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RT @nattiyak: #www2014 #websci @raminetinati @DameWendyDBE correlate events in Wikipedia by temporal page views in diff. languages http://t…

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RT @stewhir: @nattiyak @raminetinati @DameWendyDBE Cool! Wikipedia time research is popular this year! :) Also @tomayac demos and my #TempW…

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~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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RT @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 Br…

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Interesting #WebSci paper by Tran et al. on Wikipedia’s news portal: http://t.co/Ganv0JhQqb [PDF] #WWW2014

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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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RT @rtroncy: @informor strikes again with http://t.co/MF4NZHQa2m at #www2014 live detection of hyper local events ! http://t.co/pKlwSw0EoB

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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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RT @rtroncy: RT @DameWendyDBE Who has spotted @jahendler is taking photo of me taking selfie with his Google glass? http://t.co/YKDBGJK9ao …

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Annoyed by Twitter’s “Who to follow” when it’s “Whom to follow”?—I fixed it: https://t.co/hu9NeSRSRf #WWW2014 @ashishgoel #IndustryTrack

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RT @eytan: google adwords is the new mturk. great paper and presentation by @ipeirotis at #www2014! http://t.co/wvFslPlUr4

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~RT @laurens_d_v: @tomayac demonstrating @mediagalleries at the Google booth—awesome tool! #WWW2014 http://t.co/sJ7Rah2XzM // 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 o14 in a media galleryhD)pic.twitter.com/4n1SYvrwNGNG

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#TIL about the (#MacOSX) screen command for multiplexing terminal windows (not only) over SSH: https://t.co/hsqfrmX6vR Steep learning curve.

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.@rtroncy “[L]ist of hashtags used for http://t.co/IwhidMw6va ?”—Just #WWW2014, removed 1 img from Women Who Win event w/ colliding hashtag.

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RT @rtroncy: My presentation “Contextualizing Events in TV News Shows” is online at http://t.co/J1ri7FVbat #snow2014 #www2014 #linkedtv

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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@drete@pautassos@ruyalarconon :-)

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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. #LDOW2014 #WWW2014 http://t.co/t0Gz2fWxuL

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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

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Wikipedia Live Monitor & Social Media Illustrator (basis of @mediagalleries) featured on @GoogleResearch G+ page: https://t.co/oyegM6QBgb

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

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RT @wsREST: Sam Goto’s keynote Prezi from this morning is available at http://t.co/zgsSniTDIm. Half the fun w/o the stories, though :-( #ws…

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RT @techreview_es: Un algoritmo ilustra automáticamente las noticias de última hora. Sus primeras historias ya están en @mediagalleries htt…

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Haven’t tried it, but apparently you can now install #Android 4.4.2 on Intel x86 platform PCs: http://t.co/zYY2PN6rhg. Any success stories?

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RT @stilkov: Brilliant JavaScript efficiency hints: “Basically all of JavaScript is approximately 8 jQueries. Do the math.” https://t.co/ja…

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.@DocXavi Thanks for the RT. I already raised my eyebrow w/ this video http://t.co/qTVsHaoRhL (that you tweeted in http://t.co/tjPcAnBQeF).

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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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#Wikipedia to redesign across more than 32 million pages: http://t.co/KixmAKVqg3 #Typography (via @arkaitz)

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.@Chordify, presented at #ICMR2014 by @WBasdeHaas et al. is an amazing service that extracts chords from music: http://t.co/fMsWDflR3x

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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 #KnowledgeGraph by “hacking” the Ajax URL from the widget: https://t.co/J5uIopxRA8

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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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#AIDR by @PatrickMeier et al. collects tweets & helps w/ crowdsourcing classifier data: http://t.co/lUEI7EO1ss, http://t.co/Sb87YG1WLz [PDF]

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RT @aboodman: Somebody built the app engine logo, and it turned out to be useful. https://t.co/dnPST5QE2r What other logos have hidden capa…

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RT @sympapadopoulos: Photos from the #somus2014 @ICMR2014 are online: https://t.co/5qA0cKwcLb If you have more that you want to share, pls …

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

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.@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 http://t.co/J1v3ZRPZD0 (via @rtroncy)

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RT @rtroncy: #icmr2014 in echo to Susanne Boll, look at how much social media sites preserve metadata, http://t.co/DfLJ3fD28h. FB does not …

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Blogged—Telling Breaking News Stories from Wikipedia… #ICMR2014 http://t.co/R0WEbqAUul Slides https://t.co/nJlrbkZVvk http://t.co/guFDLuigbX

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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

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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 #SoMuS2014 // On the news: http://t.co/lIMV3SqKRw

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At #ICMR2014; starting off w/ #SoMuS2014 workshop on social multimedia & storytelling run by @sympapadopoulos et al. https://t.co/WAGlvJsSd3

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RT @rtroncy: “StreamGrid: Summarization of large-scale Events” by @sympapadopoulos, http://t.co/N9VeuQX15e #somus2014 See also @mediagaller…

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RT @Ollie_VL: Accept for ACM TOIS “Georeferencing Wikipedia documents using data from social media sources” PDF @ http://t.co/ysxZFNKcZN

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