John Breslin's blog

Social corkware, Web 2.0 and BlogTalk

Posted Wed, 12/05/2007 - 23:50 by John Breslin

So why is BlogTalk 2008 coming to Cork, Ireland? You may not know it, but there are a lot of connections between the "People's Republic of Cork" and the world of Web 2.0 and social software.

Congrats to Eyal on his PhD defense

Posted Tue, 12/04/2007 - 17:25 by John Breslin

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DERI Entrepreneurial Forum #2 last week

Posted Tue, 12/04/2007 - 17:11 by John Breslin

We had a very interesting event in DERI last week - the DERI Entrepreneurial Forum #2 - where six CEOs from the west of Ireland gave us their views on entrepreurship. There was some frank sharing of professional and personal experiences on both starting and running a company in Ireland.

Tales from the SIOC-o-sphere, part 6

Posted Fri, 11/30/2007 - 23:28 by John Breslin

Here are the latest happenings from the world of SIOC during the past few months, with thanks to all involved in supporting the initiative! (Note to new readers that SIOC is an open data format for community description.)

I'm a nerd god...

Posted Fri, 11/30/2007 - 23:03 by John Breslin

...according to nerdtests.com. Scary. But the good news is that 1% of those that took the test are more nerdy than I am.

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Opening up the social graph at the WebCamp workshop on "social network portability"

Posted Tue, 11/27/2007 - 18:21 by John Breslin

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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.

At the blognation Japan launch party last week

Posted Fri, 11/23/2007 - 18:36 by John Breslin

Last Friday, I attended the blognation Japan launch party (organised by editor Robert Sanzalone) at the Outback Steakhouse in Tokyo along with Eyal and Armin.

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"Made in Japan: What Makes Manga Japanese? And Why Western Kids Love It"

Posted Wed, 11/21/2007 - 22:10 by John Breslin

Since I'm interested in manga through running the boards.jp / Manga to Anime site, I found out about a talk when I was in Tokyo last week entitled "Made in Japan: What Makes Manga Japanese? And Why Western Kids Love It".

Day 1 (or at least half of it) at the Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo

Posted Thu, 11/15/2007 - 21:08 by John Breslin

After much fupping searching of bags, bodies and shoes and confiscating of my soft drinks in Busan Airport, I made it to the Cerulean Tower Tokyu Hotel in Shibuya this afternoon for the Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo where I attended some of today's events. (I missed this morning's English-language sessions unfortunately; I was looking forward to the ones with Joi Ito and Tim Bray.)