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 remaining committed to the diverse [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, etc.). [...]

XTech 2008 comes to Dublin, Ireland in May 2008

Call for Participation for XTech 2008
Proposals for presentations and tutorials are invited for XTech 2008, Europe’s premier web technologies conference. The deadline for submitting proposals is January 25th, 2008.
XTech 2008 will be held from May 6-9th 2008, in Dublin, Ireland.
XTech’s theme this year is “The Web on the Move”, focusing on the emerging portability [...]

Measure your digital status with QDOS

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 [...]

My reports from the ISWC 2007 and Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo

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 [...]

Seesmic pre-alpha release

(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 [...]