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Slides for my Sixdegreesofgoogle Talk

peter — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 08:10:44 +0000

Thanks to everyone who attended my talk about Sixdegreesofgoogle during the Linzer Linuxtage at the Ars Electronica Center yesterday.

It was a good event, and I enjoyed the discussions about the role of Google and the possible emergence of alternatives afterwards very much.

For everyone interested (and in case you missed the event), I’ve put up the slides for download.

I’d also like to take the opportunity to thank Ushi Reiter from servus.at for the kind invitation and the “Introduction by shouting”.

Sixdegreesofgoogle at the Linzer Linux-Tage

peter — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:47:01 +0000

servus.at invited me to hold a talk about Sixdegreesofgoogle at their programme to the Linzer Linux-Days.
I will give my presentation on Saturday, 17.06.2006 from 17:00 to 17:30 at the servus Clubraum (located in the Stadtwerkstatt).
If you want to know something about the reasons behind the project or some technical aspects and are in the vicinity, please drop by.
(The complete servus.at Linux-Tage programme can be found at their website).

Update: We’re up for an open-air talk on the lawn in front of the Stadtwerkstatt if the weather permits. Although the absence of a beamer might add to the depth of the talk, I’m afraid it will also mean more work preparing it. No beamer, no cute pictures. No cute pictures, no “ooooooh’s”. No “oooooooh’s”, more questions. More questions, more preparation.

410 Gone

peter — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:15:55 +0000

So, it’s over. sucht.se is gone. I am told some people miss it already. In 24 days, a surprisingly active and caring community formed on the plattform. Over 500 users wrote about their favorite songs and movies, uploaded a picture of their favorite IKEA furniture or made a picture of their butt. More than 11.000 comments posted, over 40.000 Votes and roughly 870.000 pageviews.

But numbers are the least interesting aspect of this project. The immense gravitational force the website had on some people is simply astonishing. Some users where online most of the time, for the whole 24 days.

Yesterday was the end of one project, but also the start of a new one: Analysing the wast amount of data (over 150 mb worth of user activity) we collected. Let’s see what we can find.

Oh, and in yesterdays lottery, Miss Blume won the most liked furniture. Congratulations!