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 some drawbacks to these statistics: Youtube …
Category: Tips, tweaks & hacks
Sometimes when programming or using software on the internet easy things are hard to figure out. But after finding the solution you ask yourself: “how could it be so difficult?” Here I provide you with tips, tweaks and hacks I experienced
How to create animations between two vector graphics?
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 to visualize some of my research …
Propaganda, filtering and blocking by Facebook?
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 is not new that facebook is …
First Impressions of Google+ Usability Reminding of Apple
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 you login to Google+, Google already …
Phishing Warning – Your Gmail Account Verification!!!
I just received an email that said I should verify my gmail account. It was sent from an emailadress of dataconfmation.accnt@gmail.com with username: Gmaildata@googlemail.com This email seems to be a phishing attack – they ask for your gmail password! Do not reply to it!. It looks like this: This verification updates is mandatory for all our …
how to combine Neo4j with GWT and Eclipse
As stated before I did my first testings with Neo4j. Now I wanted to include Neo4j to GWT which is actually very straight forward but for some reasons I was fighting with it for quite a while. I even had to emberass myself by asking stupid questions on the neo4j mailinglist to which Peter and …
Usability Test: Using Skype for testing the usability of your website.
After I have read the book Don’t make me think! by Steve Krug I have learned that you cannot start early enough with your usability testing. Steve pushes the fact that you don’t have to go to some fancy lab using an eye tracker or other stuff. He recommends to just show someone your templates …
how to move wordpress directory: Problems with upload_path wp-content/uploads
Recently I was forced to move a wordpress site to a different webserver. By moving to a new server due to different hosting policies I also had to change the physical directory in which the wordpress files were stored. Before it was something like /var/www/wordpress afterwards it became /home/domainname/www/ . So after moving the data …