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 22, 2007 by John Breslin
(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 »
Posted on October 10, 2007 by John Breslin
It must be acquisition season: Google yesterday announced that they have acquired microblogging service Jaiku. Jaiku, founded by Jyri Engestrom (whose post on object-centered sociality I’ve referenced more than once!) and Petteri Koponen, is a direct competitor to Twitter, another popular microblogging service from the US.
Here is a copy of the blog announcement from [...]
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