Language-aware publishing in Google+?

This is the thing that I actually wanted to write, but I first had to post my view on Google+. So, what always intrigued me on facebook is that I am having an international bunch of friends met in various places in the world. I’d say that half of my posts are in German and [...]

Content gets tuned to the audience: my first days in google plus

Alright, Google Plus is out and puzzles the world, in particular the people who could join already, what this new platform is going to be. As I am in, I am slowly seeing how people try to understand how the platform matches personal posting behavior and vice versa. This is particularly interesting as the first [...]

eindhoven hat seine …wait for it… jägerklause

Da war ich also. In Eindhoven. Circa sechseinhalb Stunden von Berlin entfernt und das Freizeitleben schien ansprechend zu sein. Gleichwohl musste ich einige Abstriche in Kauf nehmen oder wie mein griechischer Begleiter meinte: auf dem Stratumseind, der großen Bar-Straße in Eindhoven, haben sich alle Betreiber auf das selbe Mainstream-Publikum eingestellt. Wie dem auch sei, es [...]

eindhoven

So… it’s only more than two years since my last blog post. Who would have guess I’d post this often? Well then, what has happened since then? I’ve finished my PhD thesis and obtained a Doctor’s degree with summa cum laude in Computer Science from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven in [...]

open source … movies!

Everyone knows open source. Software. Right? It’s not about being for free (that’s usually an extra), it’s about giving the user access to the sources of the software to change it, customize it, extend it, integrate it, repair it, understand it, learn from it, … The success of open source software is based on the [...]

Skype “Crisis” is coming to an end

The guys at Skype must have had a tough night. My client logs in again and I just saw about 2.8 million nodes can do the same. Still I just popped out again, so it’s not been solved yet entirely. even though it is too early to call out anything definite yet we are now [...]

Anatomy of the Skype network

This is a follow-up to my earlier post on “Skype Network Problems“. I’ve just remembered an analysis of the Skype P2P Protocol from the Columbia University that might give some insight on what’s wrong. The subsequent quotes are taken from: “An Analysis of the Skype Peer-to-Peer Internet Telephony Protocol“, Salman A.Baset, Henning Schulzrinne, 2004, Columbia [...]

Skype Network Problems

Since this morning, I’m experiencing some severe Skype network problems. The client disconnects regularly, needs about 5 minutes to reconnect and drops the connection quite soon again (about a minute later). Likewise, the number of client that are logged in has dropped to about 2.5 million. Which also means that the p2p network is just [...]