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Report from the Triple-I

The first day here at the Triple-I was very successful: The KASW ‘08 workshop went great, presentations were insightful and discussions were lively. My presentation was also great although I could have talked longer (the talk scheduled after mine did not take place due to visa issues). Highlights were definitely the overview of research on folksonomies of Andreas Hotho, Ralf Klamma’s summary of the finding of his group regarding online communites (see Flickr for a quote) and the position of Andrew Gordon regarding the blogosphere and common sense knowledge.

Today I already chaired the special session of the multimedia metadata community at the I-Media with three interesting presentations. Besides all the scientific stuff I had a lot of chats about industry needs, computer games on an academic level, my eee pc and my trip to the GC