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GAME :ON "Talk Digital" Seminar on "Social Networking in Games"

20070903b.png As mentioned previously, I will be taking part in the "Talk Digital" panel discussion on "Social Networking in Games" on Monday at 1 PM, which is part of the GAME :ON Cyber Games Festival in the <

Investnet.ie Social Networking Platform

20070903a.png I've been updating myself on recent developments in the Investnet.ie social networking platform, which hosts a number of Irish social networks including communities for innovation and creativity, the heal

Top Irish websites? Any resources?

Does anyone have a good resource for listing the top Irish websites? All I have to go on at the moment are Alexa's Ireland listings (which has boards.ie at #9) and the Top 100 Irish Sites (boards.ie is at #6).

Been a busy B...

...for the past few months, hence the lack of regular blog entries. Most of my summer has been taken up with proposal writing for research funding here at DERI, the first of which finished up around the end of the June and the second ran from then until the end of August, so unfortunately I haven't had time for much else...

ITAG BBQ last week

I attended the yearly IT Association of Galway Barbeque on behalf of DERI last week - it was an enjoyable night, and you can check out the ITAG website for other forthcoming events including Managing Teams Remotely,

First Skype, now Blogger / Blogspot...

...The Internet is having a bad week.

I'd have hoped for a nicer error page from Blogger:

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One month to BarCamp Galway...

...and looking forward to it now. So far, we have been kindly sponsored by Microsoft Ireland, Blacknight Solutions, boards.ie, and Logon Internet Marketing. If you are interested in sponsoring (either €250, €500 or €1000), contact barcampgalway at gmail dot com.

We're also looking for some more speakers, so please add your name to the wiki page for BarCamp Galway if you want to talk!

social.ie: Working on it...

20070822c.gifAs you probably know, we've been planning to spin off various boards.ie services (blogs, albums, events, friends functionality) into a separate social networking site for nearly a year now. Unfortunately, time and effort have been against us, but I've started on this again and hopefully we can launch a beta version within the next few weeks.

BarCamp Ireland Jaiku channel

Aidan has set one up - join in and discuss the forthcoming BarCamp Galway:

http://jaiku.com/channel/barcampireland

The State of boards.ie #2

I've re-run our statistics gathering queries, and produced three new graphs showing boards.ie's growth in terms of users, posts and threads. Currently, boards.ie has 111350 registered users, and 6931221 posts on 596763 threads in 671 forums.

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User growth