Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

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

May 2015

portenkirchner .@elatable Says That Google Photos is Gmail for Your Images. And That Google Plus Is Not Dead. medium.com/backchannel/br…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 3:42 PM, May 30th, 2015 via Echofon)

@rogerforcada Molt guay :-) Records a la familieta! Una abraçada.

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@rogerforcada Cool :-) What course and how many hours?

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Introducing Project Jacquard: g.co/projectjacquard

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Here’s my lucky-winner.js script from : gist.github.com/tomayac/0788c9…. Highlights a lucky random @Meetup attendant who RSVP’ed.

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@bsletten There’s now an official page for it: developers.google.com/brillo. Very high level for the moment…

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@bsletten Sorry, nothing official quite yet… Watch this space. The Verge has a good overview, thoughtheverge.com/2015/5/28/8677…yX.

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polymer Polymer 1.0 just released! Rebuilt from the ground up for speed and efficiency polymer-project.org/1.0/ pic.twitter.com/4iEbFhrYay

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:40 PM, May 28th, 2015 via Echofon)

in the Google Hamburg office. Amazing Cardboard & relegation match 0:1 On a tiny Android Xoom. pic.twitter.com/NMR80vkfGA

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mahemoff Maps going offline, with search, place info, and turn-by-turn navigation available

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 8:04 PM, May 28th, 2015 via Echofon)

mattcutts Google is introducing unlimited, free full-size photo & video storage, starting today.

Get yours: googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/05/pictur…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 7:54 PM, May 28th, 2015 via Echofon)

littlegreendud3 The most translated phrases: “How are you?” “Thank you!” and “I love you!”. Faith in humanity restored!

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 7:54 PM, May 28th, 2015 via Echofon)

Zidd0 Google Photos app : backup and store unlimited HQ photos and videos for FREE

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 7:53 PM, May 28th, 2015 via Echofon)

felipehoffa Understanding music by analyzing lyrics, sounds, wikipedia edits, playlists, youtube, twitter + BigQuery on the mix twitter.com/apassant/statu…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 7:27 PM, May 28th, 2015 via Echofon)

’s will include an ever-growing ontology for making actions in the semantically meaningful.

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@orangephoto LOL, this was Munich, though. Other end of the republic:-)

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We’re live-streaming Google to the HAM office via -events.google.com/io2015/l Plus ticker forCpic.twitter.com/Eg4OBCPozFF

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RevealEU @tomayac This may also be of interest: revealproject.eu/multimedia-for… Work on image by @sympapadopoulos et al

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 3:58 PM, May 28th, 2015 via Echofon)

@sympapadopoulos Cool, thanks for sharing the demo. Works quite well :-)

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@RevealEU @sympapadopoulos Is the “Media REVEALr” demo somehow accessible externally? Would be very interested to play with it. Thanks!

via Twitter Web Client in reply to RevealEU

Tracking Protection in Firefox for Privacy and Performance: ieee-security.org/TC/SPW2015/W2S… [PDF]

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@rolfje I appreciate a well-designed website, including font choices. What I don’t tolerate is FOIT when people do it wrong…

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Proposal for a future css-font-rendering property: github.com/KenjiBaheux/cs…

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Sick & tired of Flash Of Invisible Text (FOIT) w/ Web fonts even on a 4G connection :-/ Required reading filamentgroup.com/lab/font-event…

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~RT @vrandezo: My 1st encyclopedia & how I read it 30 years ago […]medium.com/@vrandezo/my-f…1k // An ode to depth-first traversal & Wikipedia.

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bobdc “Top 10 data mining algorithms in plain English” lives up to its name rayli.net/blog/data/top-… (via @dataelixir)

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:37 PM, May 23rd, 2015 via Echofon)

Traditional conference “banana moment” at w/ @itaxidou @TomDeNies @laurens_d_v @Ben__DM. pic.twitter.com/JlC96PLIB4

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MarkusLanthaler “We have a problem with promises” Nice list of common error with promises bit.ly/1LqnxAz

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sw12 60fps Live Streaming on YouTube in HTML5 youtubecreator.blogspot.com/2015/05/60fps-…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 4:55 PM, May 22nd, 2015 via Echofon)

Wrote a rough summary of yesterday’s informal dynamic media fragments meeting at : lists.w3.org/Archives/Publi….

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miha_jlo Andrei Broder reveals some google numbers:15% of 3B daily search queries have never been seen before keynote pic.twitter.com/HI9n8RJWnz

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 11:21 AM, May 22nd, 2015 via Echofon)

WWWfirenze “Test Of Time Award” to Sergey Brin & Larry Page for the most influential work ever published infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/goo… presented @www’98

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 11:19 AM, May 22nd, 2015 via Echofon)

Here they are again, semantic smart agents labeled “Goal completion” in @azbroder’s brilliant keynote. pic.twitter.com/AizIK8xYEx

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WikiResearch Automatically generated summaries of Wikipedia articles that are “fairly close” to the human-written intro section cs.nyu.edu/~sg4187/NLP.pdf

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WikiResearch “The Sum of All Human Knowledge In Your Pocket: Full-Text Searchable Wikipedia on a @Raspberry_Piumiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/publ… w. @KiwixOffline

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 10:02 AM, May 22nd, 2015 via Echofon)

At past World Wide Web conferences, paper submissions had to be authored in HTML. When did we start to err & began to require PDF?

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The most shared media items across social networking sites at @WWWfirenze so far. (via ) pic.twitter.com/ldQDZPNihZ

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@Miel_vds @pchampin @Olivier_Aubert @lysander07 @rtroncy @tkurz-@erikmannenss decided to fight other fires ;-) We know we’ve the lab’s buy-in

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If you’re at and interested in extending Media Fragments URI (lists.w3.org/Archives/Publi…), we’ll meet at 13:00 at the Microsoft booth.

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bkeegan “Comparing methods for Twitter Sentiment Analysis.” arxiv.org/abs/1505.02973

via iOS (retweeted on 8:47 PM, May 20th, 2015 via Echofon)

ph_singer Slides for my talk today about : slideshare.net/killver/hyptra… paper: arxiv.org/abs/1411.2844

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:45 PM, May 20th, 2015 via Echofon)

rtroncy We won the prize of having the biggest list of authors at ! pic.twitter.com/AYJd5TnkV3

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arkaitz Today’s slides for “Crowdourcing Annotation of Social Media Rumours” slideshare.net/azubiaga/20150… w/ @xrysoflhs @robnprocter @kbontcheva

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 12:47 PM, May 20th, 2015 via Echofon)

~RT @fabien_gandon: 100s of millions of secret questions [for password recovery] answers analyzed by Google research.google.com/pubs/pub43783.…

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@dret @www2016ca @WWWfirenze More sustainable would be to recycle the same account each year as we (under fewer constraints) did w/ @wsREST.

via Echofon in reply to dret

edsu wikidata_suggest - a data cleansing CLI for linking your strings to @wikidata ; e.g. “Vint Surf” -> Q92743 github.com/edsu/wikidata_…

via Tweetbot for Mac (retweeted on 2:54 AM, May 20th, 2015 via Echofon)

Twitter .@Google We’re feeling lucky. 👊

Tweets will now show up in Google Search: blog.twitter.com/2015/a-new-way… pic.twitter.com/NJI5oYkZS1

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 2:51 AM, May 20th, 2015 via Echofon)

aaranged Yep, real-time tweets are on their way to Google mobile search results - bit.ly/1S88b8D

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 2:48 AM, May 20th, 2015 via Echofon)

googleresearch Check out Tone, a Chrome extension that makes sharing digital things with nearby people as easy as talking to them: goo.gl/0RfuTS

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 2:44 AM, May 20th, 2015 via Echofon)

High-level report on how Google’s ad spam team detects bot nets: adage.com/article/digita…

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ConceptNet, a common sense knowledge base (facts à la 🍌 are yellow): conceptnet5.media.mit.edu. From the knowledge graph tutorial.

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mounialalmas Attending tutorial about “Online experiments” at slides at eytan.github.io/www-15-tutoria…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 2:37 PM, May 19th, 2015 via Echofon)

.@vrandezo, @SSchaffert & my Google 20% project @fbase@wikidata mentioned at the knowledge graph tutorial. pic.twitter.com/5Z5APHT2MR

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wsREST Thanks for the Great report! ~RT @mpetyx: One day at the @wsREST workshop in Florence bit.ly/1EZpm32

via Echofon (retweeted on 12:19 PM, May 19th, 2015 via Echofon)

pchampin Db-pedia atlas: very cool linked data visualization tool presented at wafi.iit.cnr.it/lod/dbpedia/at…

via Twidere for Android #3 (retweeted on 11:28 AM, May 19th, 2015 via Echofon)

feross In case you missed it, here’s Sintel streaming over WebTorrent. MAD SCIENCE! instant.io/#c6642b73cf82d…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 10:28 AM, May 19th, 2015 via Echofon)

googleresearch This week, Florence hosts the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (). We hope to see you there! goo.gl/iCSmUU

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 6:43 PM, May 18th, 2015 via Echofon)

tkurz The slides from my presentation about @mico_project at are now online slideshare.net/thkurz1/mico-t…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 6:29 PM, May 18th, 2015 via Echofon)

danicar Best Social Science Paper goes to @fabiogiglietto & @yawningtree. Congrats! tinyurl.com/pm7xlel

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 5:19 PM, May 18th, 2015 via Echofon)

@csarven For the tiny parts we controlled, we allowed for other formats in : ws-rest.org/2015/call-for-… (bottom)

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lysander07 you will find the slides of my keynote ‘From script idea to TV rerun’ for workshop at here docs.google.com/presentation/d…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 2:06 PM, May 18th, 2015 via Echofon)

Placebo blocker: xkcd.com/1526/ Brilliant !

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TryEventifier @WWWfirenze is being archived here, have a look: eventifier.com/event/www2015/ CC @gekobraa @mpetyx @MegaDataMama @wsREST @dret Ty.

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 11:23 AM, May 18th, 2015 via Echofon)

Just presented my paper on AdAlyze Redux: tomayac.com/papers/adalyze… [PDF], sample slides from talk: bit.ly/adalyze-slides

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RubenVerborgh First time in 5 years I won’t be at , and . But I have the most wonderful excuse. pic.twitter.com/CjITCj9RPR

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 9:50 AM, May 18th, 2015 via Echofon)

Keynote speaker in the workshop (targetad-workshop.net/program/) has AdBlock (chrome.google.com/webstore/detai…) very visibly installed…

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wsREST Welcome to ! We’re ready to get goin’…We’ll use hashtaST throughout the day. Up first: keynote b@dretet. Room: Lorenese 2.

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Chat (Protocol) Wars—Microsoft vs. AOL:nplusonemag.com/issue-19/essay…E True reverse-eng. story. (via@brucell’s reading listbrucelawson.co.uk/2015/reading-l…b)

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chanian Programming for edge cases: humans

An interesting status report of Google’s self driving car medium.com/backchannel/th… pic.twitter.com/OSDm6c4M17

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 8:43 AM, May 13th, 2015 via Echofon)

lorenterveen New research “Wasted Effort and Missed Opportunities”. Wikipedia’s best content is mainly where its readers aren’t! grouplens.org/wasted-effort-…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 4:04 AM, May 12th, 2015 via Echofon)

somebitsLinks Flickr auto tags: A collision of machine learning and user desire dlvr.it/9mV3YN

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Following recent acts of vandalism, Google Map Maker is temporarily unavailable for editing: productforums.google.com/forum/#!catego… :-/

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WikiResearch@wikidata through the Eyes of DBpedia” eis.iai.uni-bonn.de/upload/paper/I… DBpedia extracts more of Wikipedia, but Wikidata hand-curated, higher quality

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IgorBrigadir Sucky academic code: Perfectly fine, provided it’s reproducible twitter.com/jasonbaldridge… But Beware of Technical Debt: pic.twitter.com/K2pKi3Jori

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 12:41 PM, May 10th, 2015 via Echofon for Android PRO)

sindresorhus My HTTP request node module `got` a logo :)
github.com/sindresorhus/g… pic.twitter.com/Ci6qgsCkV2

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 11:25 AM, May 9th, 2015 via Echofon)

Paul_Kinlan Lovefield: A cross-browser, SQL-like, relational query engine for Web in pure JavaScript.

github.com/google/lovefie… pic.twitter.com/XhmUcAPD2D

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 4:22 PM, May 7th, 2015 via Echofon)

badass_js Run a full Windows 95 emulator in your web browser, thanks to Emscripten and DOSBox: win95.ajf.me pic.twitter.com/rXc7OKgI3R

via Twitter for Mac (retweeted on 2:13 PM, May 7th, 2015 via Echofon)

aaranged Apple confirms the existence of its web crawler, Applebot - apple.co/1c5iZU0

via TweetDeck (retweeted on 11:28 PM, May 6th, 2015 via Echofon)

googleresearch Search and edit paper documents with recently expanded Optical Character Recognition capabilities in Google Drive: goo.gl/llCtpJ

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 11:23 PM, May 6th, 2015 via Echofon)

Paper: Ad Injection at Scale: Assessing Deceptive Advertisement Modifications-static.googleusercontent.com/media/research…w [PDF]

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matthiassamwald New paper out: Improving drug safety information in automatically via jmir.org/2015/5/e110/

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 9:30 AM, May 6th, 2015 via Twitter Web Client)

Exploring *dynamic* spatial media fragments of xywh quadrupels: github.com/tomayac/dynami… pic.twitter.com/LZF2q1tW1l

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Security thru obscurity is still a thing: How Selerity reported Twitter’s earnings—before Twitter did:arstechnica.com/business/2015/…g via@nelsonn

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rauchg “browser-repl is probably the greatest thing since the javascript repl” —@paul_irishshgithub.com/Automattic/bro…Jx

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 10:16 AM, May 3rd, 2015 via Echofon)

echen I scraped all the tweets, applied state-of-the-art NLP to filter and parse them, and dumped the data here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 10:09 AM, May 3rd, 2015 via Twitter Lite)

hmason This instagram emoji machine learning post is really good, even if you don’t love machine learning: instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/117889701…

via Twitter Web Client (retweeted on 10:06 AM, May 3rd, 2015 via Echofon)

Open Location Code: addresses for everything, everywhere. google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/04/open-l…

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