2026-05-06 11:21:55
15 years of eduGAIN 🎉
It started in 2004 as a research activity in the GÉANT Project before becoming an operational service in 2011.
Today, 15 years later, eduGAIN has grown into something remarkable: with 84 member federations across the globe & connecting over 10,000 identity & service providers.
It's also a key component of the trust fabric supporting major EU initiatives like EOSC, EuroHPC, Erasmus , & the European Universities initiative.
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Tim Cook's 15-year legacy by the numbers: Apple's market cap grew from $350B in 2011 to $4T now, net income rose ~700% to $112B for FY 2025, and more (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/apple…
Mein Rabbit Hole der letzten Tage war ein kleines Layoutprojekt / Wühlen in meinem Blog. Texte aus den Jahren 2006 bis 2011 wieder zu lesen, ruft einiges an Erinnerungen wach - die Debatten um Web 2.0 und social media in der Politik, der sich abzeichnende Politikwechsel in Baden-Württemberg (und Stuttgart 21 ist immer noch nicht fertig gebaut), aber auch biografische Pfade, die ich nicht eingeschlagen habe.
foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 6410 nodes and 10377 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
Explaining the NFL's rookie wage scale: How contracts for draft picks are predetermined https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7242308/2026/05/01/nfl-draft-rookie-wage-scale/
Klinkt nog als weinig voor de gruwelijkheden die hij beging.
10 jaar cel en tbs voor verkrachting en grootschalige seksuele online afpersing https://nos.nl/l/2609892
"NYC YOU LISTEN TO ME
IF YOUR NEAR A CONVENIENCE STORE RIGHT NOW
ANY TYPE OF 24 HOUR STORE
GO INTO THE STORE RIGHT NOW
AND PUT YOUR HAND
IN THE CASH REGISTER FOR NO REASON
THEIR MONEY IS YOUR MONEY
AS OF RIGHT NOW" - Funked Proverb, 2011
sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…
Instead of digging a bit deeper into factors affecting housing affordability, news articles like this uncritically accept YIMBY's Leora Ross's “Thanks to years of advocacy at the state level to pass laws like AB 2011, housing proposals like these will bring thousands of homes to the Bay Area and make it easier and more affordable for people to live here.”
There are so many factors affecting affordability - and this is ignored. WHY?
Plans for nearly 4,000 homes over Saf…
academia_edu: Academica.edu (2011)
Snapshot of the follower relationships among users of academia.edu, a platform for academics to share research papers, scraped in 2011. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) denotes that user i follows j.
This network has 200169 nodes and 1398063 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
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Former Cowboys Defensive End and 1st Round Pick Dead at 36 Years Old https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/defensive-end-aldon-smith-dead/
wiki_users: Wikipedia user interaction (2011)
A network derived from interactions between editors of the English language Wikipedia, as derived from the edit histories of 563 wiki pages related to politics. A positive sign indicates positive links such as trust or similarities, and a negative sign indicates distrust or disagreement.
This network has 138592 nodes and 740397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed
marker_cafe: The Marker Cafe (2011)
Snapshot of connections among users of the Israeli social network Marker Cafe, collected in 2011. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 69413 nodes and 1644849 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://
marker_cafe: The Marker Cafe (2011)
Snapshot of connections among users of the Israeli social network Marker Cafe, collected in 2011. Nodes are users and a directed edge (i,j) represents user i added user j to i's circle.
This network has 69413 nodes and 1644849 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://
board_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…