Posted on February 4, 2008 by John Breslin
In a previous post, I listed some interesting articles I found about the application of social networks to business scenarios. This was based on research I did for a presentation on “Social Networking and Collaboration Tools for Enterprise 2.0” in October. Referencing these articles, I also prepared some answers for questions at the [...]
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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 December 4, 2007 by John Breslin
Garlik, a UK company that focuses on personal information control, have recently launched the QDOS site (pronounced “kudos”, and no, it’s nothing to do with the old operating systems of the same name) for measuring your “digital status” or estimated online rating.
According to the creators:
With QDOS, 45 million UK adults now have a unique [...]
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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 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 November 5, 2007 by John Breslin
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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Posted on October 30, 2007 by John Breslin
I’ve just read Chris Horn’s article entitled “The Long Tail Wags” which was inspired by a recent conference I participated in. His post describes how commercial organisations can benefit from and add value to the global Web 2.0-using community.
There are some interesting observations on risks and opportunities associated with the large quantities of user-generated [...]
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Posted on October 5, 2007 by John Breslin
Nova Spivack’s “best official” definition of Web 3.0 was posted today in response to Jason Calacanis’ “official” definition of Web 3.0. You can also read Tim O’Reilly’s reply to Nova’s Web 3.0 definition. The picture on the right is Nova’s graph of the current and envisaged evolution of the Web (with versions).
As [...]
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Posted on October 2, 2007 by John Breslin
There have been a variety of figures bandied about for the ratio of content contributors to browsers / lurkers on social media sites.
From CNET News.com:
A recent Hitwise study indicates that as few as 4 percent of Internet users actually contribute to sites like YouTube and Flickr, and more than 55 percent are men. [...] To [...]
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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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