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StreamGlider, a next-generation multimedia newsreader that competes with Pulse and Flipboard on the iPad, was launched today by StreamGlider, Inc., a US corporation co-founded by John Breslin of boards.ie fame.

StreamGlider provides a new way to distribute content to various platforms, and is being rolled out initially on the iPad, with future versions for other tablets, phones, PCs and even TVs. It pulls and plays any kind of content (text, video, photos, music, social media, RSS, APIs), enabling new mashups, real-time slideshows, filters, search and gestures.

It's never too late for a prequel, or a sequel, so I've decided to resume blogging right here on my own site. It's been over a year since I wrote something, so here's an update on what's been going on:

We had the official book launch of "The Social Semantic Web" last month in the President’s Drawing Room at NUI Galway. The book was officially launched by Dr. James J. Browne, President of NUI Galway. The book was authored by myself, Dr. Alexandre Passant and Prof. Stefan Decker from the Digital Enterprise Research Institute at NUI Galway (sponsored by SFI). Here is a short blurb:

This is a few months late but better late then never! We said goodbye to PhD researcher Haklae Kim in May of this year when he returned to Korea and took up a position with Samsung Electronics soon afterward. We had a nice going away lunch for Haklae with the rest of the team from the Social Software Unit (picture below).

I was interviewed by Marie Boran from Silicon Republic recently for an interesting article she was writing entitled "Will Google Wave topple the e-mail status quo and change the way we work?". I thought that maybe my longer answers may be of interest and am pasting them below.