Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Since one of the talks got canceled the organisers of the Graph Devroom at Fosdem used the opportunity to make a public discussions with all the developers to talk about some future trends in graph processing. I really liked the idea but unfortunately the discussion wasn’t really kicking off [...]
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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Nils Grunwald works at the french startup Linkefluence. Their product is more or less social network analysis and graph processing. They crawl the web and blogs or get other social network data and provide solutions with statistics and insights for their customers. In this scenario obviously big data is [...]
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Claudio Martella introduces Apache Giraph which according to him is a loose implementation of Google Pregel which was introduced on SIGMOD in 2010. He points out that Map Reduce cannot be used to do graph processing. He then gave an example on how MapReduce can be used to to do page rank calculation. He points [...]
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Since I went to Brussesl to attend the Free Open Source Developer European Meeting and give a talk about graphity I had also some time to attend some interesting talks. Since I will teach a class in summer for students about creating a basic webserver and webbrowser I decided [...]
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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Believing in open models and supporting ideas of copy left I am more than happy to see the current developement of scientists worldwide publicly making statements of not supporting Elsevier in the future which I will obviously join! You can find the page where scientists make thos statements under: http://thecostofknowledge.com/ [...]
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I am one of the web pioneers but this is about the most amazing thing that I will be witnessing on the web as long as I can remember. Tomorrow on January 18th the english version of Wikipedia will shut down for 24 hours to protest two upcoming (?) [...]
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Finally someone stood up and said what I was feeling all my live! Tim Harford is an expert on complex systems and realized that most of them evolve by trial and error and not by some authority saying we have to do it in this and that way. He [...]
Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Hey everyone! Last week I sent out over 100 invitations to Google Plus. I know some of you are still waiting to be allowed to join. But for those who have seen G+ I would love to hear your oppinion on Google Plus. Do you think it will become [...]
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We all know that the review process of scientific journals is a good thing that served a certain purpose in the time it was created. In this video Jimmy Wales – well known as the Wikipedia founder – talks about the impact of new technologies and the web on the traditional concept of scientific journals [...]
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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: This morning I received an email telling me about wikipedias plans to become an UNESCO world culture heritage. I right away was amazed by this idea! Think about it! Wikipedia is one of the greatest projects that came along in recent years. Education and knowledge are among the most [...]
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