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About: Gene Golovchinsky

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Sr. Research Scientist at FXPAL. Interested in information seeking, dynamic hypertext, collaborative search, e-books, freeform digital ink annotation, human-computer interaction, photography, wine, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Follow me on Twitter at @HCIR_GeneG

Posts by Gene Golovchinsky:

• Twitter’s tweet code, 08 Feb 2010 in Uncategorized

  Twitter recently released some of its tweet-related code as open source. This is great news for those building applications on top of twitter, as it reduces the need to write the same code over and over. The released code  includes parser and HTML markup generator classes, and a Regex class that includes a bunch of [...]

• SSM2010, 05 Feb 2010 in Information seeking& Social media& culture/society& human-computer interaction

  Last Wednesday Jeremy and I participated in the SSM2010 workshop organized by Ian Soboroff (NIST), Eugene Agichtein (Emory University), Daniel Tunkelang (Google), and Marti Hearst (University of California, Berkeley).  It was a full day of panels, discussions and poster presentations on a variety of topics related to search, to social media, [...]

• Talking with Twitter, 02 Feb 2010 in Uncategorized

  I’ve been messing with the Twitter search API, and I am here to whine about it. Overall, it’s a great feature, but it’s interesting that it imposes costs on the third-party client that the Twitter interface seemingly doesn’t share. For example, I can run a search and get back a bunch of results. When I [...]

• What do we mean by “Search in Social Media”?, 29 Jan 2010 in Information seeking& Social media

  Jeremy and I have been busy preparing for the Search in Social Media (SSM2010) workshop. We thought we would start at the beginning and ask what people understood by the term “search in social media.” Workshops often spend a bunch of time on definitions, and we thought we’d jump in early. We’ve talked about social [...]

• Finding facets, 28 Jan 2010 in Information seeking

  I’ve been messing around with Twitter search, which (on a small scale) led me to store structured tweet, people and document data. I used a relational database to store the data I got from Twitter, and everything worked just fine. (That is, performance was limited by the Twitter API and Twitter search API, not by [...]

• Does IP matter?, 27 Jan 2010 in scientific publishing& social impact of technology

  Panos Ipeirotis recently wrote about the confusing state of affairs with respect to intellectual property at his University. In some sense, this is ironic, since the whole point of a University is to produce intellectual property. But I suppose the question isn’t really one of production, but rather of distribution and of consumption. It’s clear [...]

• SSM2010 panel: Research Directions for Search in Social Media, 25 Jan 2010 in Information seeking& Social media& human-computer interaction

  The third workshop on Search in Social Media (SSM2010) will held in conjunction with WDSM 2010 in early February. The workshop, organized this year by Eugene Agichtein (Emory University), Marti Hearst (University of California, Berkeley), Ian Soboroff (NIST), and Daniel Tunkelang (Google), will bring together academics and people from industry (including the major search engines). [...]

• #Google #search for #Twitter? #fail!, 22 Jan 2010 in Information seeking& human-computer interaction

  For a while now, Google has been serving up tweets related to searches as part of its real-time search effort. Now they are making it possible to search the Twitter stream in exactly the way Twitter doesn’t allow — that is, to search for tweets older than a few days. A query like
  cyberwarfare site:twitter.com
  will return [...]

• Position papers for Collab Info Seeking workshop, 21 Jan 2010 in Events& Information seeking& collaborative search

  We had a record crop of position papers for the Collaborative Information Seeking (CIS) workshop we’re organizing at CSCW 2010. Underscoring the ubiquity of collaboration in information seeking, the position papers address everything from health care to emergency response to SecondLife to the information seeking ecology within the enterprise. The papers clustered out into several [...]

• Twitter and disasters waiting to happen, 19 Jan 2010 in Events& social impact of technology

  The recent earthquake in Haiti has attracted attention from Twitter users and researchers. Twitter has been used to collect donations, to contact people on the ground, to coordinate relief efforts, etc. Recently, U. Colorado’s EPIC Group proposed a hash-tag-based syntax on top of Twitter messages to help automate the parsing of actionable messages, and to [...]