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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I promised to create some screen casts for the autocomplete service with GWT based on neo4j. After I have created all the screencasts I had to go through quite some hassle in order to do so. So let me share my experience and toolchain in order to produce a [...]

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René Pickhardt on November 2nd, 2012

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: So the culture is different from Western culture we all know that! I am certainly not an expert on China but after living in China for almost 2 years knowing some language and working in a chinese company seeing presentations every week and also visiting over 30 western and [...]

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: 8 months ago I posted the results of my research about fast retrieval of social news feeds and in particular my graph index graphity. The index is able to serve more than 12 thousand personalized social news streams per second in social networks with several million active users. I [...]

Continue reading about Graphity source code and wikipedia raw data is online (neo4j based social news stream framework)

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Over the last weeks there was quite some quality programming time for me. First of all I built some indices on the typology data base in which way I was able to increase the retrieval speed of typology by a factor of over 1000 which is something that rarely [...]

Continue reading about Building an Autocompletion on GWT with RPC, ContextListener and a Suggest Tree: Part 0

René Pickhardt on November 13th, 2011

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Today I have figured out that you can download a lot of statistics about your on videos from Youtube. That is actually very nice since I was always sceptical that you miss the knowledge of who is watching your videos once you do not host them yourself. Unfortunately there are [...]

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René Pickhardt on August 23rd, 2011

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I am just about to prepare a talk about my current research on social news streams for social networks. As I have learned giving good examples is essential! That is why I already spent a whole day learning some basic inkscape to create some vector graphics which are supposed [...]

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René Pickhardt on August 16th, 2011

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: The discussions about the ethics of facebook are old and everyone knows my oppinion on their ethics. But now I discovered a youtube video shared by a Google Product Manager on Google plus that Facebook will filter out your invitations to Googleplus from your friends facebook news stream. It [...]

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René Pickhardt on July 1st, 2011

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Yesterday I was finally able to receive an invitation to Google+ (thanks to Lisa!). After seeing it from the inside, I am convinced that this is the killer application that will stop Facebook. Google+ feels totally comfortable. It also allows you to make your communication much more effective. When [...]

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René Pickhardt on June 30th, 2011

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: inviting people to our new favourite social networking site Google plus seems not obvious right away. This is what you need to do: Create a circle or add people to one of the predifined circles. You can do this from the suggestions google does or add them by adding [...]

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René Pickhardt on June 30th, 2011

If you need an invitation to Google Plus just leave a comment or subscribe to my newsletter! This site really seems to be an alternative to Facebook! Great! I just invited about 50 interested people from different mailinglists and my blog. I have to get back to work now! The invites will come!

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