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The performance of online communities - An Empirical Investigation of Wikipedia

nospam@example.com (Roman Pickl) — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:03:38 +0200

I decided to upload my Diploma Thesis to scribd.com. Maybe some things are of value for students and other researchers. Of course nothing is perfect and as far as i know Wikipedia has changed its format a bit, so the code in the appendix may not be applicable anymore and is probably quite far from perfect .
The Performance of Online Communities

who tweets about ... ? - revisited: twitter timeplot generator

nospam@example.com (Roman Pickl) — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:37:28 +0200

Last week i stumpled upon the awesome simile widgets (a spin off of the simile project at MIT) and after playing around with timeline and timeplot for a while I thougt about bringing my who tweets about fun-project to the next level.

I startet with a timeline of tweets but realized that this is getting overloaded quite fast. So I used timeplot and its ability to load timeline events to come up with the twitter timeplot generator.

e.g.: who tweets about garmz and when?(click on the dates to see the tweets)

<p>your browser cannot display iframes. You can open the page via: <a href="http://tweetfortat.pickl.eu/timeplotevents.php5?s=garmz.com OR @garmz">twitter timeplot</a></p>

Due to Twitters search api limitation (1500 tweets) this is of limited use with popular topics. So I looked for an alternative source of tweets and found twapperkeeper.com which offers a number of tweet-archives on various hashtags.

I adapted the code and came up with this visualization of the days after jackos death(I removed the tweets due to their enormous number):

<p>your browser cannot display iframes. You can open the page via: <a href="http://tweetfortat.pickl.eu/timeploteventsTWAPPERKEEPERjacko.php5">twitter timeplot</a></p>

any ideas for events to visualize in this manner?

You can try it here: Twitter Timeplot

who tweets about ... ? twitter user cloud generator

nospam@example.com (Roman Pickl) — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:36:04 +0200

Wer tweetet ueber ein bestimmtes thema?
Ein kleiner Test mit der Twitter search API.

hier ausprobieren: twitter user cloud generator

Auch einen iframe kann man generieren und praktisch einbinden: z.b. wer tweetet ueber jumio.com (das neue Startup der Jahjah Gruender:

your browser cannot display iframes. You can open the page via: twitterusercloud

we wanna be techstars!

nospam@example.com (Roman Pickl) — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:13:54 +0200

via stefanmey.com

garmz.com - Start your own fashion label!

nospam@example.com (Roman Pickl) — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:29:07 +0200

wer meublounge kennt, dem muss ich auch das konzept hinter garmz nicht lange erklaeren...

Start your own fashion label! You design fashion - we do the rest.

Auf jeden Fall interessant und weiterzuverfolgen! Viel Erfolg garmz! Vielleicht trifft man sich ja mal irgendwo und tauscht sich ein wenig aus (wie ueber xing schonmal angedacht!)

who tweets about garmz? (Keep up with the BUZZ, Wer ueber garmz in den letzten tagen tweetet ist in der stets aktuellen cloud! Wer oft darueber tweetet ist groesser dargestellt):

interessante links zu garmz:
techcrunch
Analyse eines bloggers
Bericht im Kurier

die umlaute spar ich mir jetzt mal ganz frech... mein uralt-eeepc aus australien kennt sowas nicht