Posted on February 20, 2008 by John Breslin
I participated in the first teleconference for the DataPortability steering group this morning (at the unearthly hour of 6 AM GMT!) and am glad to say that we had a productive session with participation from an interesting mix of developers, companies, academics, evangelists, researchers and practitioners. Here is the audio recording of the teleconference [...]
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Posted on February 2, 2008 by John Breslin
Cork will play host to the 5th International Conference on Social Software - BlogTalk - from the 2nd to the 4th of March 2008.
The BlogTalk event – see 2008.blogtalk.net - allows practitioners, developers and academics to connect and discuss the latest trends and happenings in the world of social software (blogs, wikis, social networks, etc.). [...]
Filed under: Blogs, Events, Ireland, Mashups, Microblogs, Semantic Web, Social Networks, Social Software, Web 2.0, Wikis | 1 Comment »
Posted on January 21, 2008 by John Breslin
Call for Participation for XTech 2008
Proposals for presentations and tutorials are invited for XTech 2008, Europe’s premier web technologies conference. The deadline for submitting proposals is January 25th, 2008.
XTech 2008 will be held from May 6-9th 2008, in Dublin, Ireland.
XTech’s theme this year is “The Web on the Move”, focusing on the emerging portability [...]
Filed under: Events, Ireland, Mashups, Semantic Web, Social Networks, Social Software | Tagged: dataportability, dublin, Ireland, irishblogs, mobileinternet, semanticweb, socialmedia, web2, web2.0, webtechnologies, xtech | No Comments »
Posted on January 3, 2008 by John Breslin
As co-organiser of the WebCamp workshop on social network portability, I am happy to announce two invited talks by experts from the fields of the social web and the Semantic Web.
Ajit Jaokar is a mobile web pioneer and a researcher on identity and reputation in social networks at University College London. Ajit is founder [...]
Filed under: Events, Ireland, Social Networks, Social Software | Tagged: socialgraph, socialnetworkportability, socialnetworks, webcamp | No Comments »
Posted on November 27, 2007 by John Breslin
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 »
Posted on November 27, 2007 by John Breslin
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 [...]
Filed under: Events, Ireland, Social Software | Tagged: blogtalk, cork, Ireland, irishblogs, socialmedia, socialsoftware | No Comments »
Posted on November 22, 2007 by John Breslin
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 »
Posted on October 4, 2007 by John Breslin
The event “Graphing Social Patterns: The Business and Technology of Facebook” is being held this weekend (October 7th to 9th) in San Jose, California.
This is a conference for both technology and business people on how to build and distribute applications for the social networking platform Facebook. There will be some interesting speakers at the [...]
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Posted on September 17, 2007 by John Breslin
Dublin, Ireland saw one of its largest web technology and business gatherings last Thursday evening (September 13th). At least 200 Web 2.0 professionals from all over the country and Europe, plus others interested in the web application industry, converged on Ely HQ in the docklands area of the city for a series of events.
To [...]
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Posted on September 12, 2007 by John Breslin
BlogTalk 2008, the 5th International Conference on Social Software, has today published its call for proposals for the event which will be held in Cork, Ireland on the 3rd and 4th of March next year.
The event is being chaired / co-chaired by Thomas N. Burg, founder of BlogTalk and a social software expert, Jan Schmidt, [...]
Filed under: Blogs, Events, Ireland, Social Software | 2 Comments »
