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How to show all tweets related to a web page with a single click

Ralf Scharnetzki — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:55:29 +0000

Tweets link often to web pages. The reverse direction works too: with one click you can see tweets that are related to the current page your browser is showing. This is the second part of our mini Twitter tutorial (part 1 here). You could use a URL Twitter enabled search engine like http://backtweets.com/search?q= to find tweets [...]

What is twittering and how does it work ? Part 1 messages = tweets

Ralf Scharnetzki — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:12:59 +0000

What is a global stack of short text messages good for that is free to use and open for multi purpose ? There are two ways how you can get value from using Twitter: 1) Leverage all messages others putting right now on the global stack of messages 2) Publish your own messages for whatever you see as [...]

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts quote great visualization on youtube

Ralf Scharnetzki — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:39:44 +0000

“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts” . The information age was given recently a new visual metaphor for this quote from Greek philosopher Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC). This video was generated by combining thousands of photos (the parts) to generate this animated 3D view (the sum) of San Marco Square [...]

How does Apple Genius work?

Ralf Scharnetzki — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:49:31 +0000

The Apple iTunes Genius feature can create personalized play-lists for your iTunes library and provide you with recommendations regarding media and other products that you maybe would like to buy. How does Apples itunes Genius functionality work? Apple is making no secret out of what Genius does, you can find it all here: http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/us/terms.html We would also strongly suggest [...]

Auf deutsch – Apple nano Bedienungsanleitung inklusive Reset iPod nano

Ralf Scharnetzki — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:39:39 +0000

Hier gibt es die originalen deutschen Bedienungsanleitung (en) zum Apple iPod nano: http://support.apple.com/de_DE/manuals/#ipodnano Insbesondere wichtig kann die Anleitung zum Reset des iPod nano (und der anderen Modelle) sein: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1320?viewlocale=de_DE

Search engine trend: remove typing as the barrier to entry

Ralf Scharnetzki — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:25:55 +0000

Google: Search with voice recognition: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-mobile-app/ Google Fast Flip: GoogleBlog and here http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/ Microsoft: Bing Visual Search: BingBlog: Visual Search – Why type when you can see it? Example: VisualSearch (needs Silverlight installed)

About ownership of data on Facebook

Ralf Scharnetzki — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:08:26 +0000

“The more dependent we allow ourselves to become to something like Facebook — and Facebook does everything in its power to make you more dependent — the more Facebook can and does abuse us,” Harmsen explained by indignant e-mail. “It is not ‘your’ Facebook profile. It is Facebook’s profile about you.” Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30FOB-medium-t.html

Thematic Web Archives: Capture reality as it shows up on the Web

Ralf Scharnetzki — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:29:32 +0000

“A thematic Web collection is an archive of Web objects identified and captured using a set of URLs believed to be relevant to a specific theme or topic” Source The outstanding, best documented and analysed case is obviously 9/11: http://september11.archive.org/ http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2002/One-year-later-September-11-and-the-Internet.aspx http://bibnum.bnf.fr/ecdl/2003/proceedings.php?f=schneider In this sense our article about Carl Backstrom´s death and his traces on the web can be seen as [...]

Death: when the life behind shared social streams ended

Ralf Scharnetzki — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:57:24 +0000

The Internet is changing not only our life. It is also changing what is left after we are gone. Social life streams stop when the life behind ended. But those streams of activity continue to be accessible until the service provider will delete the account or close doors. We dont know Carl Backstrom, but we can access his feeds: Carl [...]

Zooming interfaces: an alternative to the Windows user experience

Ralf Scharnetzki — Mon, 11 May 2009 06:02:47 +0000

Jef Raskin, the human interface expert who started the Macintosh project at Apple in the late 70´s, was not happy about how most of us today work with their computers: “In present systems, work gets done in applications (which are sets of commands that apply to certain kinds of objects). Tasks are not accomplished at the [...]