Thanks for a great Hypertext conference!

I'd like to thank all the organizers for a great Hypertext conference! I thoroughly enjoyed it and meeting with lots of familiar faces and new ones. To remember the moments we shared together, I have placed all the photos that I took from the conference on my Flickr site. I had some people come to me to ask if I would put some notes from the talks on my blog. I'll do that when I have time and head back to Toronto.

See you all in Pittsburgh in Hypertext 2008!

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Day 2 of Hypertext conference

I'm at the Hypertext conference on Day 2. Some interesting talks on semantic web, web accessibility and user profiles. I'm really enjoying this conference, meeting lots of interesting work and interdisciplinary research. I'm going to present my research work tomorrow at 12 pm on Identifying Subcommunities Using Cohesive Subgroups in Social Hypertext. If you're at the conference, come and attend my talk!

More photos from yesterday and today are on Flickr.

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End of Day 1 session at Hypertext conference

Just finished the end of the technical sessions at the Hypertext conference, and am now in the Graduate BOF where there are lots of grad students chit chatting and just socializing. Then, there will be the SIGWEB business meeting and then the tour of the Manchester Museum.

Day 1 of Hypertext 2007 conference

Today is Day 1 of the Hypertext 2007 conference and I'm in Manchester, UK. Yesterday, I did my own tour around Manchester, going to the Whitworth Art Gallery and going to Curry Mile which is the Indian and Pakistanian area of Manchester of restaurants. Pictures of that and today's first day are available on Flickr.

Hypertext conference starts next week

There's only 4 days until the Hypertext conference starts in Manchester, England. It looks to be a great programme of papers and events. I'll be presenting my paper on "Identifying Subcommunities in Social Hypertext" on September 12 at 12 pm, yes right before lunch!

I look forward to meeting with people from last year's Hypertext which I presented, and meeting with new people.

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Difference between social graph, social network web site, and social OS

Here's an article that explains what's the difference between a social graph, social network web site and social OS. An example of a social graph is the people connected to each other. AN example of a social network web site is Flickr or Twitter. An example of a social OS is Facebook, although I don't really kind of agree with that. I think of Facebook as a social network application or social network web site. It's not really an OS, because it doesn't permeate through all my computer's applications and it's not tied with Windows or Linux. All my applications I'm using do not all tie in with Facebook (at least not yet).

What do you all think about this?

Gmail redirects to garbled site

Yesterday, something strange happened. For some reason, when I went to Gmail, it would redirect me through ora.3168a.com to a garbled web page. I thought that I had contracted a virus or spyware, so I used Norton Antivirus and Lavasoft Ad-Aware to check, but found nothing. I tried to check Gmail with Internet Explorer, and it would also cause the same problem. I then cleared out the cache and history, and tried to access Gmail but I still got the garbled web page. This really puzzled me, so I tried to isolate the problem if it was a machine problem, by going to another computer and accessing Gmail from there. On another laptop, it was fine. Oh by the way, I was using Mozilla Firefox browser. But then when I went to another computer in the house, with Gmail, I still got the same redirect. What was worse was that not even Gmail but other web sites were redirecting through ora.3168a.com. Doing a Google search on ora.3168a.com resulted in a list of malicious and spam web sites of which ora.3168a.com was on the list.

I found out that another person also had the same problem as well, but apparently he was able to solve it by going through some several reboots and following some removal instructions translated from Japanese. I didn't do that, but today it seems like I can read Gmail now. It's kinda scary though what happened.