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ICDE 2008?
Anyone at ICDE this week? If you plan to be there please do send me a note and we should catch up.
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tones of pictures!
Hi Folks!
As I promised I make my pictures available: http://picasaweb.google.com/darja.krushevskaja .
The pictures are grouped by the day(of my visit to Seattle) and there are also a lot of my Seattle /landscape pictures, hope you don't m...
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Themes in ICWSM 2008
Looking back at ICWSM this year I noticed a few recurring themes: "Using Word Net and Wikipedia to do/improve X,"
"Sentiment Analysis," and "Political Analysis."
What themes did you notice this year?
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Related Events
If you are involved with another conference or workshop related to this one, please let Eytan know and we will mention it in the closing remarks.
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For vegetarians and martini lovers...
Hey all, hope everyone has settled in and is ready for a great start to the conference. Just wanted to give out two additional restaurant picks that you guys might like. The first is a vegetarian restaurant. Now, first I have to say that I'm no...
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photo pool on flickr
If you're a flickr user and will be taking and uploading photos from the conference, I created a photo pool -
http://www.flickr.com/groups/713251@N21/
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BusinessWeek: Updated SM Review
For those of you interested in what the popular press has to say about social media: BusinessWeek magazine did an article on Social Media in 2005, which was all about blogs. They've dusted it off for 2008.
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/...
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Facebook Data Collection
If anyone has experience collecting data off Facebook, I'd be keen to speak with you. My particular interest is in the recent global protests against the FARC in Columbia that developed on Facebook. See for example the following article in the C...
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Crashed harddisk
Hi, My laptop's harddisk has crashed. Yipee! If you know somebody who can help me get my data off it asap, please let me know. I can't read it off a USB harddisk enclosure, and so it looks like it's something more serious.
thanks
Adi
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Sunday dinner - 6.30pm in the lobby of the Hilton
Hello everyone,
For anyone that is interested, let's meet in the lobby of the Hilton at 6.30pm and go from there for dinner.
Safe travel,
- Bryan
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Sunday Dinner?
Hello everyone,
Anyone want to grab dinner on Sunday night? Maybe check out a seafood place? Thanks for the recommendations Azam.
Below is my contact info - look forward to meeting everyone
Bryan Sippel
1 613 545 7470
Bryan.Sippel@gma...
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Bowling, seafood, and ferry fun!
Hey all, Seattle's Capital Hill neighborhood is a great place to mindlessly wonder. Its just east of downtown across I-5 - a quick taxi or bus ride. Its got a great urban youth feel. Check out Seattle's hip version of bowling - http://www.bookg...
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ICWSM Media
I'd like to propose that bloggers posting about the conference use the tags icwsm, icwsm2008. Perhaps these tags could be adopted in any tag-supported media (e.g. flickr). If anyone wants to suggest guidelines for other forms of media please speak...
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4 great places downtown
Hey guys, here is a list of four great places downtown. Perfect for that time between sessions :-)
Dahlia Lounge
http://www.bookgoo.com/goo/view/107a5a24-fc8f-11dc-8e72-00144f788334
Pike Place Market
http://www.bookgoo.com/goo/view/562a5a...
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What to do in Seattle...
Hey, for those of you attending from out of town, I have uploaded some content to give you an idea of what to do in Seattle. For example, here is one of my favourite restaurants downtown - http://www.bookgoo.com/goo/view/40557c4c-fbc7-11dc-a8c2-0...
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Blogs at TREC
This seems like a good spot to stick a few URLs to let everyone know what what's happening at TREC (http://trec.nist.gov) in the blog search area.
The blog search track will continue this year. Guidelines are evolving, but the central task wil...
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Also looking for someone to share a room with
Hi, I'm looking for someone, anyone, to share a room with at the Hilton, where the conference takes place. The current room rate is $150 (+ tax) per night. If you're interested, please send me a message.
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Planet Social Media Research
Planet Social Media Research [1] is a feed aggregator for blogs and feeds discussing research on social media. The scope is intended to cover research in many disciplines -- technical, analytic, linguistic, cultural, social, policy, economic, etc...
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sxsw interactive?
Is anyone going to sxsw this week? ping me if you want to meet-up!
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Anyone for touristing the week following ICWSM?
[update] Suggestions welcome (and present) for places to visit in and around Seattle!
I'm sticking around Seattle for a week after ICWSM at a friend's place. Would anyone be interested in some touristy activities the week after, as I'll be on m...
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Looking for someone to share a room with
Hi,
I'm looking for a single female to share a room with at the Hilton, where the conference takes place. The current room rate is $150 (+ tax) per night.
If anyone's interested, please send me a message.
Cheers,
Sharon Givon
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Tags!
I see a few items in the tag clouds here on CrowdVine which should be consolidated: (NLP, Natural Language Processing), (PhD Student, PhD Candidate), ...
As these tags are great ways to find people, I suggest that we attempt to consolidate the...
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Seattle
One thing to share here is the location: Seattle! If you arrive a little early, or stay after the conference, there are some great things to do around here: a ferry ride to Bainbridge Island, visit West Seattle, the Space Needle, many museums, Pik...
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How can we use this site?
CrowdVine says that "The most popular blog posts for conferences seem to be discussion on the conference as a whole, thoughts on a specific session, making plans for meetups, or asking questions of other attendees." but I wonder how else we can us...
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