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Six degrees is dead – long live DBpedia

I’ve just listened to a talk about the DBpedia Relationship Finder and ask myself whether the project Six degrees of Wikipedia is still active. It’s a pitty – it is not (… at least the links server). The algorithm is not the same but it does a good job. Six degrees evaluates the every link in the page and creates an untyped association while DBpedia evaluates only the infoboxes in the sites and gathers also information about the association type (e.g. Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach and died in Leipzig).

The combination would be more interesting – to have more information – using all links – than DBpedia and to have better information quality – using the info boxes – than Six degrees.

Fotomarathon 2007

For all those who like the well known Fotomarathon – I’ve put our photo set from yesterday into a flickr album.
Mosaik

Use both Forces Luke!

Using The Force (which has recently emerged from the Blue Shirt Studio) you now are able to script the forces Luke has already used a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….

The Wizard of Climbing

“to climb” translated into German is “klettern”. The kletterwizard allows you to write nice looking letters in a nice KDE-Wizzard-GUI with a snip of your fingers.

I’ve created a RPM for OpenSuSE 10.2 with another snip of checkinstall‘s fingers.

Totally..

flabbergasting!

You have to watch this realy well made video about web 2.0 made by Mike Wesch. And by the way – the Web-2.0-ish answer made by CoryTheRaven is also very good.

“shaking hands” or “success story”

I got my telephone working. What a story. They managed it to send a service engineer who replaced the wall socket.

Congratulations to ewt!

UML-ified podcast

On http://www.se-radio.net/ you will find the project site of the “Software Engeneering Radio”. They are publishing regularly podcasts on various software engeering topics in a clearly spoken english (at least the episodes I have heard).

As an UML-Diagramm:
UML-Diagram

Use the force Luke!

The following paragraph is from the growisofs man page

There are several undocumented options commonly denoted with -use-the-force-luke prefix. Some of them serve debugging purposes. Some require certain knowledge about recording process or even OS kernel internals and as being such can induce confusing behaviour. Some are to be used in very specific situations better recognized by front-ends or automated scripts. Rationale behind leaving these options undocumented is that those few users who would actually need to use them directly can as well consult the source code or obtain specific instructions elsewhere.

Collabarative Thinking

There is a realy cool project located at http://www.deepamehta.de/ ! It lets you work in network with visualized networks while browsing the web and gathering information from the sites.

On 21th March will be an introduction into the software in the new thinking store in berlin x-berg.

safer RFID

STOP RFID envelope

Have you ever felt unhappy because of your possibly tracked movements of your RFID chip in your passport? Just cover your passport with a RFID-ray-impermeable-envelope and you will feel instanly better! If not – try other STOP-RFID-Gadgets too.

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