John Breslin's blog

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

...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...

...The Internet is having a bad week.

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

As 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.

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.

User growth