Stand still and watch the patterns, which by pure chance have been generated: Stains on the wall, or the ashes in a fireplace or the clouds in the sky, or the gravel on the beach, or other things. If you look at them carefully you might discover miraculous inventions. (Leonardo da Vinci)
 

Analyzing Sentiments of Tweets

March 24th, 2009 Websites| 1 Comment »

I am still wondering about the enormous success of twitter. Maybe it’s because the contents are generated more spontanous then blog articles (for which the author takes her time) and thus more “real”. I just found two sites which sentiment-analyze the words  posted with twitter:

TWENDZ

TWITRRATR

10 How-To’s to improve your work.

February 20th, 2009 Knowledge, Websites| 2 Comments »

Yesterday I found an interesting website, which applies the wiki principle on another area: http://www.wikihow.com

This is not about lexical knowledge of the masses but about How-To’s on several fields. As usual in wikis the contents are written and produced (you can find video How-To’s as well) by the community. Another approach on the “Wisdom of crowds”.

Just to give some examples, you could find those 10 How’to’s to improve your professional life:

  1. How-To manage Geeks
  2. How-To be a good manager
  3. How-To develop an IT Change Management Program
  4. How-To establish an IT project
  5. How-To be an effective Project Manager
  6. How-To run an effective meeting
  7. How-To motivate Staff
  8. How-To access useful Web Development Tools
  9. How-To Have successful Open-Source projects
  10. How-To improve your Skills as a programmer