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I think I’m probably not alone when I say that Technorati may have put too much in at once when they decided to move from focussing on blogs to many other types of tagged content some time ago.
Luckily, they also implemented a stripped-down version for those who remember and just want to use Technorati [...]

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A WebCamp “Social Network Portability” workshop has been announced to be co-located with BlogTalk on 2nd March 2008. You can view the wiki page for this event.
“Social network portability” is a term that has been used to describe the ability to reuse one’s own profile and contacts across various social networking sites and social [...]

Filed under: Events, Ireland, Social Networks | Tagged: blogtalk, cork, Ireland, irishblogs, socialgraph, socialnetworkportability, socialnetworks, webcamp | 1 Comment »

BlogTalk 2008, the 5th International Conference on Social Software, will be held in Cork, Ireland on 3rd/4th March 2008. The event is designed to allow dialogue between practitioners, developers and academics who are involved in the area of social software (blogs, wikis, forums, IM, social networks, etc.). A workshop on Social Network [...]

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From Ireland’s Newstalk radio news today:

The Government’s planning on using Facebook and Bebo to try to warn people of the dangers of illegal drugs.
The news comes as two people remain in a critical condition in hospital, and more than a dozen others were treated after a 21st birthday party in Waterford.
The Minister for State with [...]

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What does OpenSocial offer in the way of being able to transfer your social network profile and contacts across networks? It’s the question that has been on many lips, from Tim O’Reilly to Tantek Celik, but a hint that this may in fact be possible recently appeared in the OpenSocial documentation for hosting applications [...]

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I’ve written some summaries / transcripts of talks I attended at the recent 6th International Semantic Web Conference in Korea and also the 1st Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo event.
International Semantic Web Conference

Brewster Kahle, The Internet Archive - “Universal access to human knowledge (or public access to digital materials)”
Barney Pell, Powerset - “Natural language and the [...]

Filed under: Events, Japan, Korea, Semantic Web, Web 2.0 | Tagged: web2expo, web2expotokyo | 1 Comment »

(Sorry for the lack of updates recently. I was attending some conferences for the past two weeks, and I will post links to my reports soon.)
As originally rumoured on Scobleizer and announced on TechCrunch recently, Loic Le Meur’s newest startup called “Seesmic” is a microvlogging service in the style of sites like Twitter [...]

Filed under: France, Microblogs, News, Reviews, Semantic Web, Video, Web 2.0 | Tagged: microvlogs, seesmic, sioc, twitter | 1 Comment »

The Web 2.0 Expo blog recently launched a “Product 2.0” competition for free tickets to any of the forthcoming Web 2.0 Expo events. Here are my entries:
Broc.co.li is the healthy green vegetable you will WANT to eat! Our Broc.co.li heads contain powerful nanites that can target the mouth’s taste buds and provide [...]

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In the niche SNS area, Yokohama Tyre Corporation recently implemented the Pringo white-label SNS solution for their “online presence and green marketing initiative” called Eco Treadsetters.
LA-based marketing agency PCGCampbell built the site using Pringo so that Yokohama consumers across the US could communicate with each other, create and navigate custom profiles, form sub-communities, and [...]

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