World experts on social networks, blogging and “Web 3.0” come to Cork in March

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.). [...]

XTech 2008 comes to Dublin, Ireland in May 2008

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 [...]

Intel releases mashup extension for Firefox

Developers at Intel Corporation’s research lab at Berkeley have created the Mash Maker extension for Firefox.
The blog post about Mash Maker says that the extension enables mashups to become part of your normal browsing experience - the aim being that mashups can be used by anyone, not just techies. The Mash Maker toolbar displays [...]