It has been now one year since the first time I registered this domain (hsaif.net). My purpose was to build a personal website and start blogging about my PhD research work and other interesting topics that are somehow related my work. However, I was too lazy to write even these lines ☹. Actually, I used to tell my self that it’s not the right time to start blogging. Apparently, because of the lack of time, but it’s been always like that and this will not change in near feature.

Anyway, I really feel great while writing these lines. It is my first blogging post. I bet you don’t know where I’m now while writing these lines. I’m actually now sitting in the exhibition area inside the conference centre in Lyon – France.
Why am I there? Because, I’m attending the WWW2012 conference.
Around the table where I’m setting there are also Matthew Rowe, Milan Stankovic and Claudia Wagner.

Yesterday, I presented my paper at MSM2012 workshop (Making sense of Microblogs). Eventually, My paper “Alleviating Data Sparsity for Twitter Sentiment Analysis” received the best paper award ☺.

Tomorrow will be the first day in the main conference. There will be a keynote by Tim Berners Lee. Unfortunately, I’m going to miss it as I’m leaving in few hours (coming back to Milton Keynes).

I should stop talking about the WWW2012 conference as this article is supposed to be about the “Hello World” article. I will later to write a another detailed article about WWW2012 conference and talk about my experience during it.

So, Hello my fiend.. Hello my colleagues and Hello World.

Hassan