[publication] @twitter Try out #Grabeeter to Export, Archive and Search Your Tweets

Our publication on “@twitter Try out #Grabeeter to Export, Archive and Search Your Tweets” for this year Research 2.0 Workshop at ECTEL Conference is now online available. The slides you will find here.
Abstract:

The microblogging platform Twitter is beside Facebook the fastest growing social networking application of the last years. It is used in different ways, e.g. to enhance events (conferences) by sending updates, hyperlinks or other data as a news-stream to a broader public. Until now the stream ends with the end of the event. In this publication a new application is introduced that allows information retrieval and knowledge discovery by searching through local stored tweets related to a corresponding event. The architecture of the prototype is described as well as how the data is being accessed by a web application and a local client. It can be stated that making tweets available after the end of an event, enhances the way we deal with information in future.

Reference: Mühlburger, H.; Ebner, M.; Taraghi, B., (2010) @twitter Try out #Grabeeter to Export, Archive and Search Your Tweets. – in: Research 2.0 approaches to TEL. (2010), S. 76 – 85, Workshop Proceeding, ECTEL 2010, [Link]

[presentation] Twitter research at World Computer Congress

A big thank to Steve who gave both presentations about our Twitter research at the World Computer Congress:

Furhtermore he put also the slides online:


[publication] @twitter Mining#Microblogs Using #Semantic Technologies

Our publication on “@twitter Mining#Microblogs Using #Semantic Technologies” at this year 6th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives is now online available.
Abstract:

In this paper we report about our current and ongoing research efforts aiming at knowledge discovery, offline social data mining and social entity extraction based upon semantic technologies. Further we are aiming to provide the scientific architecture paradigm for building semantic applications that rely on social data. In this early stage our work focuses on data from Twitter as currently most popular and fastest growing microblogging platform. In the realm of our research we implemented applications like Grabeeter for storing searching and caching the social data and STAT infrastructure that uses semantic standards like RDF (SIOC, FOAF), SPARQL and existing semantic services as Sinidice and Linked Data silos as DBPedia or GeoNames as well. They represent parts of novel architecture paradigm for semantic social applications intended to be introduced here.

Reference: Softic, S.; Ebner, M.; Mühlburger, H.; Altmann, T.; Taraghi, B., (2010) @twitter Mining #Microblogs Using #Semantic Technologies, in: 6th Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Perspectives (SWAP 2010), p. 1 – 12, https://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/events/swap2010/page10/page10.html (last access Oct. 2010)

[presentation] @twitter Try out #Grabeeter to Export, Archive and Search Your Tweets

Our presentation about “@twitter Try out #Grabeeter to Export, Archive and Search Your Tweets” for this year ECTEL-Conference is now online. We will talk about our application concerning the export of tweets and the offline searchability: Grabeeter. Slides which are presented within the Workshop Research 2.0:

[publication] All I need to know about Twitter in Education I learned in Kindergarten

Our publication at this year World Computer Congress about “All I need to know about Twitter in Education I learned in Kindergarten” is now online as draft version available.
Abstract:

Share everything.
Play fair.
Don’t hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
Be aware of wonder.

Reference: Reinhardt, W., Wheeler, S., Ebner, M. (2010), All I need to know about Twitter in Education I learned in Kindergarten, N. Reynolds and M. Turcsányi-Szabó (Eds.): KCKS 2010, IFIP AICT 324, pp. 322–332, 2010

[publication] Get Granular on Twitter – Tweets from a Conference and their Limited Usefulness for Non-Participants

Our publication at this year World Computer Congress about “Get Granular on Twitter – Tweets from a Conference and their Limited Usefulness for Non-Participants” is now online as draft version available.
Abstract:

The use of microblogging applications (especially Twitter) becomes common in different settings. Nowadays, active conference participants post messages on microblogging platforms to exchange information fast and in real- time. Recent research work addressed quantitative analyses in terms of number of tweets or active Twitter user in a specific time period. In this publication we look at the content of the contributions. It can be shown that only a few posts are of interest for non-participants of the corresponding event and that a meaningful usage of a microblogging application needs carefulness.


Reference: Ebner, M., Mühlburger, H., Schön (aka Schaffert), S., Schiefner, M., Reinhardt, W., Wheeler, S. (2010) Get Granular on Twitter – Tweets from a Conference and their Limited Usefulness for Non-Participants, N. Reynolds and M. Turcsányi-Szabó (Eds.), KCKS 2010, IFIP AICT 324, pp. 102–113

[presentation] Getting Granular on Twitter – Tweets from a Conference and their Limited Usefulness for Non-Participants

Our presentaton about “Getting Granular on Twitter – Tweets from a Conference and their Limited Usefulness for Non-Participants” at this year World Computer Congress in Brisbane, Australia – enjoy: