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 [...]

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 [...]

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 event, which [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 (such [...]