It is almost 2 years over since I published my first ideas and works on graphity which is nowadays a collection of algorithms to support efficient storage and retrieval of more than 10k social activity streams per second. You know the typical application of twitter, facebook and co. Retrieve the most current status updates from your …
Tag: GRAPHITY
Drug junkie steals my neo4j t-shirt out of my physical mailbox
Being at FOSDEM 20013 Peter from Neo4j asked my if I would like to get a neo4j shirt send to my home adress. We have to keep in mind that i just moved back to Koblenz from China. I did not only move to Koblenz but I moved to Koblenz Lützel. I knew from my …
Metalcon finally gets a redesign – Thinking about high scalability
Finally metalcon.de the social networking site which Jonas, Jens and me created in 2008 gets a redesign. Thanks to the great opportunities at the Institute for Web Science and Technologies here in Koblenz (why don’t you apply for a PhD position with us?) I will have the chance to code up the new version of …
Open access and data from my research. Old resources for various topics finally online.
Being strong pro on the topic of open access I always try to publish all my work on my blog but sometimes I am busy or I forget to update so today I took the time to look at all my old drafts and the stuff that hasn’t been published yet. So here is a …
How to do a presentation in China? Some of my experiences
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 chinese companies placed in China I …
Submission history of my first academic research paper (graphity at socialcom 2012)
My graph index graphity was – as mentioned in another blogpost – accepted at socialcom 2012. After I explained how it works and sharted the source code I now want to share some information about the history of submissions, reviews, quality of reviews, taken actions and so on. So if you are a coder, hacker, …
Graphity source code and wikipedia raw data is online (neo4j based social news stream framework)
UPDATE: there is now the source code of an entire graphity server application online! 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 …
My first PhD year summerized: What a great choice of mine!
2011 is almost over and more than 9 months of my PhD have already passed by. During my math diploma I was founded by the german national academic foundation. Besides some really nice benefits that came along with this every 6 months I was forced to write reports about my study progress. Even though theses …
11 lessons learnt after my first scientific paper was submitted
During the last month my blog was rather quite. I dicided that I was aiming to submit my first paper to a top conference with a deadline of november first. Well besides the fact that I almost forgot about the fact that I also have a private life – as well as my collegues helping …