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 November 30, 2007 by John Breslin
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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Posted on October 9, 2007 by John Breslin
The Microsoft and NBC Universal News joint venture MSNBC has acquired the Newsvine community of citizen journalists for an undisclosed sum.
Newsvine, based in Seattle, publishes stories from both the mainstream media and a community of users together on the site. Users can vote on their news stories of interest, similar to the Digg [...]
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Posted on October 1, 2007 by John Breslin
From the Houston Chronicle, we read of a case in Paris, Texas where a defamation lawsuit has been filed by a hospital there to reveal the identity of a blogger who has been severely critical of the hospital and their practices:
A state district judge has told lawyers for the hospital and the blogger that he [...]
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Posted on September 27, 2007 by John Breslin
Jessica Zenner, an employee of Parker Services (a technical recruitment contractor for Nintendo) was fired on the 31st of August by her employer following concerns expressed by Nintendo about posts on her blog “Inexcusable Behavior“.
On the blog, where she talks about herself, her friends and co-workers (none of whom are mentioned by name), Zenner [...]
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Posted on September 18, 2007 by John Breslin
Two articles about two different technologies both bearing the name Atom caught my attention recently.
The first was a blog entry on the 24th of July by Tim Bray on the approval of the Atom Publishing Protocol as an RFC standard by the IETF’s Internet Engineering Steering Group. You may already be familiar with [...]
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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, [...]
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Posted on September 11, 2007 by John Breslin
The social networking site Facebook increased its total unique visitors in the UK by 366% in the six months from January 2007 to July 2007, according to figures from ComScore. During the same timeframe, the other top 10 social media sites operating in the UK increased their numbers of unique visitors by between 25 [...]
Filed under: Blogs, News, Social Media, Social Networks, United Kingdom | 3 Comments »
