To better understand our city's storied past, we follow in the footsteps of Orson Welles in 1949's film noir masterpiece
The Third Man, deemed the "best British film of all time" by the British Film Institute.
After the tour, watch the film, directed by Carol Reed and based off the book by Graham Greene, in the Opernkino and visit the most important scenes of the film at your own accord.
With more than 80 million active users, Facebook Platform bears significant potential for scientific projects. An Austrian research team led by MODUL University has recognized this potential and launched two innovative social applications: Users can cast their votes for their preferred candidates in the upcoming US Presidential Election, and participate in a related sentiment quiz in the tradition of "games with a purpose".
The Sentiment Quiz invites Facebook users and their network of online friends to evaluate whether sentences from an archive of election-related news media articles express positive or negative sentiment. Participants earn points for matching answers, but can also lose them if their opinions differ from those of their opponents. The built-in notification system and real-time statistics on the users' progress help engage Facebook users and leverage the wisdom of the crowds for scientific purposes.
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Both applications belong to the US Election 2008 Web Monitor, a Web portal of the IDIOM project that analyzes more than 800,000 Web documents in weekly intervals. The system measures attention and sentiment towards the candidates and extracts the most important topics associated with them. IDIOM (www.idiom.at) is a two-year research project funded by the Austrian FIT-IT Semantic Systems Program (www.fit-it.at), jointly pursued by MODUL University Vienna, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Graz University of Technology and several industry partners (Gentics, Austria.info and PRISMA Solutions).
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Contact
Prof. Arno Scharl
MODUL University Vienna
Department of New Media Technology
Am Kahlenberg 1, 1190 Vienna, Austria
scharl@modul.ac.at | www.modul.ac.at/nmt
Facebook is a registered trademark of Facebook Inc., which provides a development system that allows building social applications and interacting with its more than 80 million active users.
Christi Shingara (NYC)
Herou (IGNUG)
Svensker
Negerprinsessen & RocKimieBaby (Ignug Collective)
And more
The dress code is of course red, white and blue.
female:pressure is an international database for female djs, producers and visual artists, related to the electronic music world, that can be searched by various criteria. It is first and foremost a tool to ensure the existence of women in this apparently entirly male dominated field and to improve communication. The database / website is considered to be a publicly accessible source of information, designed and founded by Vienna based Electric Indigo in 1998 - a technological answer to the recurring complaints of there hardly being any female producers or djs. The programming and continuous advancement of the female:pressure database has been carried out by Viennese open source expert Andrea Mayr.
Meanwhile female:pressure can be proud of approximately 970 members from 51 countries, most of them can be contacted by e mail and are hyperlinked to their own webpages and to the record labels they release on where applicable. Additional information comprises location, profession and musical style.
female:pressure emphasizes the practicality and the necessity of networking and communicating especially in this area and serves as a representational platform to the world, an established standard to be consulted and used as a reference. The database can be searched by regions, countries, styles, professions and names. This makes it easy for people to obtain information about well known artists as well as up and coming women who work in the fields of electronic music around the globe. All djs, producers, singers, mcs, videoartists, graphicdesigners, photographers and other visual artists can log into the site and individually update their own profiles, so the information available remains relevant and can be used effectively.
Getting lost in the city has never been so comfortable.
Berlin is about to go summer crazy. No matter if you're a foreigner living in Berlin or just a temporary guest - it's inevitable that everyone back home will hound you for suggestions of a good Berlin summer tour.
With such an incredible array of unique spots at a variety of strand bars, sport spots, open-air theaters and endless under-the-sky clubs every week, it's always difficult to pick the right spots to rule them all.
And that's simply because every Berlin summer day is usually guaranteed great events, vibrant mood and stylishly debauched parties.
Berliners' faces you might not see out so much in the winter are everywhere in the summer; the typical Berlin hibernation is over and it's time to let it go. Go outside! Go for a round of Boule, visit the wonderful lake sides outside the city, take your BBQ right by the Spree, put the Burgers on the grill, chill and be prepared for a good smoke.
"I also think so!" - 
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