John Breslin's blog

Interview about boards.ie in PC Live! magazine

Posted Tue, 01/08/2008 - 20:19 by John Breslin

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I was interviewed by Rory Gannon of PC Live! magazine for an article in this month's issue about boards.ie. The article includes a nice summary of a slightly longer set of interview questions, which I am including here for your interest.

Where did the idea for boards.ie come from?

First WebCamp to be held in India (on Web Frameworks for the present and the future)

Posted Tue, 01/08/2008 - 20:04 by John Breslin

20080108a.png I'm happy to say that the first WebCamp event in India will be held next month. It is being organised by Prahbu Subramanian, who previously ran the successful PipesCamp event in Chennai last year.

DataPortability.org, web standards, SIOC and FOAF

Posted Fri, 01/04/2008 - 20:25 by John Breslin

Leo Sauermann has written an e-mail to the public DataPortability.org mailing list suggesting that the DataPortability.org initiative also takes W3C's web standards like RDF into account, as well as considering existing efforts like FOAF and SIOC for data port

Interviewed on Morning Ireland last week

Posted Thu, 01/03/2008 - 23:19 by John Breslin

Along with Joe Zefran of rté.ie, John Waters from the Irish Times, former DCU student Deirdre Reynolds, Gráinne Barry of anotherfriend.com, and Dr. Siobhan Barry from Cluan Mhuire, I took part in a panel hosted by Richard Downes on RTÉ Radio 1's "Morning Ireland" show last week to discuss the phenomenon of online social networking.

First SIOC brainstorming session

Posted Mon, 12/17/2007 - 23:45 by John Breslin

We had our first SIOC brainstorming session in DERI last week, and I think it was quite productive (though I missed a big chunk of it). Thomas Schandl has written up the minutes here, and I've vectorised / rendered Uldis' whiteboard notes below.

See Saw Margery Daw

Posted Thu, 12/13/2007 - 18:40 by John Breslin

See Saw Margery Daw
Johnny shall have a new master
He shall earn but a penny a day
Because he cannot work any faster

SIOC tutorial accepted for WWW2008

Posted Fri, 12/07/2007 - 18:37 by John Breslin

I'm happy to announce that our tutorial proposal on SIOC entitled "Interlinking Online Communities and Enriching Social Software with the Semantic Web" (Uldis Bojars and John Breslin of DERI, NUI Galway, Alexandre Passant of EDF R&D / LaLICC, Université Paris 4) has been accepted for WWW2008, the 14th International World Wide Web

boards.ie latest: hires and hiring; doubling visits since 2005

Posted Thu, 12/06/2007 - 20:05 by John Breslin

I'm happy to announce that Gerry Shanahan has recently been appointed as Managing Director of boards.ie Ltd. We are also now looking for a full-time tech developer with LAMP expertise.

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Videos of "Paddy's Valley" to VC pitches

Posted Thu, 12/06/2007 - 19:09 by John Breslin

Well done to the Paddy's Valley Irish entrepreneurs who gave great pitches to venture capitalists in the Bay Area. And thanks to Damien for the videos. Here are the links.