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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Newsvine acquired by MSNBC for undisclosed amount

The Microsoft and NBC Universal News joint venture MSNBC has acquired the Newsvine community of citizen journalists for an undisclosed sum. Newsvine, based in Seattle, publishes stories from both the mainstream media and a community of users together on the site. Users can vote on their news stories of interest, similar to the Digg or [...]

Hospital in Paris, Texas tries to issue legal suit against anonymous critical blogger

From the Houston Chronicle, we read of a case in Paris, Texas where a defamation lawsuit has been filed by a hospital there to reveal the identity of a blogger who has been severely critical of the hospital and their practices: A state district judge has told lawyers for the hospital and the blogger that [...]

Nintendo contract employee fired over blog that was “not work appropriate”

Jessica Zenner, an employee of Parker Services (a technical recruitment contractor for Nintendo) was fired on the 31st of August by her employer following concerns expressed by Nintendo about posts on her blog “Inexcusable Behavior“. On the blog, where she talks about herself, her friends and co-workers (none of whom are mentioned by name), Zenner [...]

A tale of two Atoms: AtomPub and Atom Interface

Two articles about two different technologies both bearing the name Atom caught my attention recently. The first was a blog entry on the 24th of July by Tim Bray on the approval of the Atom Publishing Protocol as an RFC standard by the IETF’s Internet Engineering Steering Group. You may already be familiar with the [...]