Nice video shows how hidden structured data from the Drupal content management system can lead to semantic search

(Cross-posted at johnbreslin.com/blog.)
Via Drupal creator Dries Buytaert’s post entitled RDFa and Drupal and Stéphane Corlosquet’s post about RDFa and Drupal examples and use cases, there is a really cool video that demonstrates how the structured data that is available in many Drupal deployments (but is difficult to leverage due to HTML representations) can be exposed [...]

Favourite social media tool from 2008, and the one to watch…

(Originally posted at Krishna De’s BizGrowthNews.com.)
The two tools that I’ve found most useful for sharing information online this year would have to be the “Twi-ns” (non-identical!): Twitter and Twine. I’ll talk about Twitter as my “favourite social media tool of 2008″ and share some details of Twine, describing what I hope to use both [...]

Celebrity twitterers and other famous tweeple

It’s not just social media mavens or gurus who have high follower counts on Twitter these days. Twitter now has its fair share of celebrity twitterers or tweeple with many, many followers (in fact, the first result from Google when you search for twitterer is none other than actor and writer Wil Wheaton, or [...]

RSS for dummies!

Content is often syndicated from many blogs, social websites and news services in computer-readable feeds that can be used by other people and systems. For example, content from newspapers is often syndicated so that news headlines can be read by people in their own feed reader programs or integrated into their own websites.
Previous to syndication, [...]

Social media can make you happy…

I posted a message on Twitter about half an hour ago saying that I was feeling down. I refrained from saying I was depressed as I really didn’t want to alarm anyone and I knew it wasn’t serious, but almost immediately I had four messages asking what was up (both publicly and privately on [...]

Business Week: “Social Media Will Change Your Business” / Forrester: “Web 2.0 Market To Reach $4.6 Billion By 2013″

(Sorry for the months of absence due to work commitments and travel. For more, see my recent blog entries at 1, 2, 3.)
While I was in San Francisco last week, I picked up a copy of the June 2 issue of Business Week which featured the cover headline of “Beyond Blogs”. There was an [...]

Social networking services for enterprise use (2)

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 [...]

Q&A about online social networking services

I was interviewed during the summer for an interesting documentary about Bebo and online social networks (or “social networking services”) by the Multime Group from DCU. I prepared some answers for their questions, which I am sharing here.
What is your interpretation of an online social network (OSN)?
My interpretation is that it is a [...]

Simplified Technorati search

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 [...]

“Product 2.0″ competition on the Web 2.0 Expo blog…

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 [...]