Posted on May 29, 2009 by John Breslin
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 [...]
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Posted on March 18, 2009 by John Breslin
(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 [...]
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Posted on March 7, 2009 by John Breslin
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 after [...]
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Posted on May 30, 2008 by John Breslin
(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 [...]
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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.). [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2008 by John Breslin
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 [...]
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Posted on January 3, 2008 by John Breslin
As co-organiser of the WebCamp workshop on social network portability, I am happy to announce two invited talks by experts from the fields of the social web and the Semantic Web.
Ajit Jaokar is a mobile web pioneer and a researcher on identity and reputation in social networks at University College London. Ajit is founder [...]
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Posted on December 6, 2007 by John Breslin
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 [...]
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Posted on November 27, 2007 by John Breslin
A WebCamp “Social Network Portability” workshop has been announced to be co-located with BlogTalk on 2nd March 2008. You can view the wiki page for this event.
“Social network portability” is a term that has been used to describe the ability to reuse one’s own profile and contacts across various social networking sites and social [...]
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