At the end of April, I hosted a 3 hour seminar at Social Media Lab, a course held at the IULM university in Milan. I presented the basics of modern web technologies in the context of quantitive research, and then focused a bit on the topics of data mining, text mining and information extraction. You can find the slides attached to this post (they’re mostly in Italian, though).

Clean This Mess! is a minimalistic application to handle ToDo lists and daily tasks, loosely following the Getting Things Done principles. It is extremely simple, yet powerful and easy to use. Try it out at cleanthismess.appspot.com. You only need a Google account (like your gmail one) to access it, and you can create a new one if you don’t have it already. I created and released it in mid-April, and it already has more than 50 early adopters!