One aim of my PhD research is to empirically analyze the relation between emerging semantics of social media streams and social factors which may influence them. With the term social factors I refer to different types of social context features which can be extracted from social media stream messages, such as authors or [...]
Twitter messages (so called tweets) contain up to 140 characters. That means messages are very short and therefor it is often difficult to estimate the topics of a message.
Hashtags are a powerful way of assigning additional information (e.g. context information) to tweets. I think that hashtags provide a rich source of information and should therefore [...]
Last weekend I left KMi and I am looking back to 5 very interesting month. KMi is a wonderful workplace with very nice people! It was really a good experience and I plan to come back for a visit soon
In the current Social Web tools such as Zemanta Reblog, Share This, Reblog, Move My Data or Press This, allow users to reuse content across application boundaries, but have several limitations:
1.) Loosing semantic metadata and relations: The information about the relations, which connect
the resource to reuse with other resources stored on the source application [...]
As described in one previous postings, I want to develop a demonstrator which shows more sophisticated reblogging (or in general resource reusing) as current non-semantic tools allow.
More sophisticated means:
1) The user should be able to choose if the resources should be reblogged by reference or by value! If resources are reblogged by reference only the [...]
Few days ago I tried out the SIOC Importer for Wordpress, which is really cool. The importer requires as input a URI, which must point to an RDF graph, parses the graph for all instances of the type sioc:Post (this includes normally Blog Postings and comments) and creates new content on the target site using [...]
oEmbed is a format which allows to embed the representation of a resource on a third party site without needing to parse it. Therefore a Provider implements the oEmbed API and allows a Consumer to fetch the representation of a resource and embed it directly on the Consumer’s site.
The advantage of oEmbed is that the [...]
Most people (at least computer scientist or people working in the field of Semantic Web) agree that it would be great if the Web would be a global giant graph where data is connected in a meaningful way. For the Social Web that means that user’s identities, their personal data, their social networking data and [...]
I just bumped into IYOUIT, a context-aware application for mobile phones (at the moment only for S60 nokia phones). It sounds really interesting and I like the idea of making the Social Web more social by exploiting the user’s context (that means tracking the positions of users, the whereabouts and proximity of their buddies, scanned [...]