Submit a talk proposal for BlogTalk 2009, Social Software Conference in Korea this September! (Final Call)

Here’s an update regarding BlogTalk 2009, the 6th International Conference on Social Software. BlogTalk Asia will be held in Jeju, Korea from 15th-16th September. We hope that you can submit a proposal to speak at BlogTalk: the deadline is the 31st July 2009. A one-page abstract (less than 600 words) is required. http://2009.blogtalk.net/callforproposals Why attend? [...]

BlogTalk 2009 (6th International Social Software Conference) – Call for Proposals – September 1st and 2nd – Jeju, Korea

BlogTalk 2009 The 6th Int’l Conf. on Social Software September 1st and 2nd, 2009 Jeju Island, Korea Overview Following the international success of the last five BlogTalk events, the next BlogTalk – to be held in Jeju Island, Korea on September 1st and 2nd, 2009 – is continuing with its focus on social software, while [...]

FOWA Dublin 2009: Robin Christopherson (AbilityNet) – “Apps for All in a Web 2.0 World”

The second talk I attended at FOWA Dublin 2009 was given by Robin Christopherson from UK organisation AbilityNet, focussing on the accessibility of web applications. AbilityNet is a UK charity that deals with disabilities and technology (carrying out accessibility audits, disabled user testing, and web design). As well as looking at the Web, they assess [...]

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 [...]

FOWA Dublin 2009: Eoghan McCabe, Des Traynor (Contrast) – “Unconventional Web Apps”

The first talk I attended at the Future of Web Apps 2009 event in Dublin was by Eoghan McCabe and Des Traynor from Contrast. As I mentioned in my previous post, many of the speakers (in particular this presentation and the last one by David Heinemeier Hansson) urged attendees not to conform to conventional expectations. [...]

Future of Web Apps Dublin: great speakers, poorly organised

I attended my first Future of Web Apps conference yesterday when Carsonified’s FOWA troupe came to Dublin for a one-day event in Liberty Hall. I was really looking forward to this event and the talks certainly fulfilled expectations. Blog reports on all presentations (apart from Ryan Carson’s whom I missed) will be published next week [...]

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 @wilw [...]

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 [...]

boards.ie SIOC Data Competition moves start date to 1st September

Signups are now being accepted for the boards.ie SIOC Data Competition, and data sets will be made available to verified accounts for download from the 1st September 2008. The new closing date for the competition is the 31st October 2008. The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at NUI Galway is running a unique competition from [...]