About me

I'm a PhD student working in the joint Safer Internet project between SES ASTRA, the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam and the University of Luxembourg & LIASIT. My research interests are mainly within the fields of pattern classification, machine learning, content filtering, and information security.

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Aug 14 | The new Delicious and throttling

As I said in a previous blog post, the updated delicious.com seems to be a bit over-sensitive when it comes to throttling / limiting requests to their service. I found some “facts” posted by delicious team members in the official support forums.

API calls: Calls to https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all are more limited than the other calls. It’s best [...] (continue reading)
Aug 06 | DeliciousAPI 1.5.0 is now compatible with delicious v2

I have finally succeeded in updating DeliciousAPI to work with the updated delicious website/API. All users of DeliciousAPI should (actually: must) update DeliciousAPI as the versions prior to 1.5.0 will not work anymore. DeliciousAPI 1.5.0 comes with some enhancements (e.g., the full public bookmark collection of a user can be retrieved now, or the title of [...] (continue reading)
Aug 01 | del.icio.us Python API waiting to be fixed

Dear all, del.icio.us has relaunched its web service today (August 01, 2008). Due to a lot of changes behind the scenes, parts of my del.icio.us Python API are broken. I’m working on a fix, please stay tuned! Thanks to Dave from Yahoo/delicious for bringing this to my attention, it’s been appreciated! (continue reading)