Back at work

SBP10 Conference After SBP10 Conference (the pic is there to prove that we’ve been really there) we are back at work. SPB10 has been an exiting and interesting experience for many reason. First the conference was very well organized, many interesting presentation, good time management, good food and an extraordinary cross fertilization session at the end of the conference. We’ve got a good idea of where the research on many relevant topics is going and we’ve met many interesting people. We’ve got the opportunity (thanks again for the fruitful cross-fertilization session!) to get in touch with many interesting researchers and now we just have to see if anything will came out of that.

Preconference work

Live update from Bethesda, MD. We arrived in Bethesda yesterday and we are still trying to recover from the jet lag. This morning, after a great breakfast at the local pancake house, we are doing some work on a conversation ranking system based on our friendfeed data. Being able to rank online conversation is undoubtedly a great challenge and we are currently working on a model able to keep together relational aspects (followers and popularity of people taking part in the conversation) and conversational aspects (how people took part in that conversation, whit what degree of involvement, how spread was the conversation among the network and so on). We are pretty excited about this model and we hope to be able to share something more soon.
In the meanwhile tomorrow we’re presenting our project and our data here, you can follow us on Twitter.