Yesterday, Tom Murphy began working as an employee for boards.ie Ltd. (as well as remaining one of the shareholders / directors). It’s a new era for the site, and we now have less excuses for lack of professionalism (no longer a hobby!). Best of luck with the new job Tom.

- John Breslin (nickname Cloud or Cloudie) is...
- Currently a lecturer in Electronic Engineering at NUI Galway and an associate researcher at DERI in the area of the Social Semantic Web.
- Also co-founder and director of boards.ie Ltd., Ireland's largest message board community (see the boards.ie Wikipedia article).
- Founder of the SIOC project (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities; see the SIOC Wikipedia article).
- Also blogging at SocialMedia.net.
- Creator of WebCamp.
- Member of the W3C Advisory Committee.
- Advisor to CrowdGather.
- Contactable at skype:johnbreslin or via Skype In / voicemail on +1-415-287-0222.
- This site contains John's personal opinions, unrelated to the views of his employer.
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- johnbreslin: Yahoo! SearchMonkey cites SIOC as a recommended vocabulary: http://tinyurl.com/58ygrf13/10/2008
- johnbreslin: @darraghdoyle thanks! Still on a high about the wins even though I wasn't at the awards :)12/10/2008
- johnbreslin: feeding ducks near nuns island and availing of free nuigwifi12/10/2008
- johnbreslin: @pahlkadot thanks! Looking forward to v revisited! Ken Johnson (creator) was great...12/10/2008
- johnbreslin: @jamesgallagher Enjoying it so far back in Electronic Engineering; I usually am in DERI on Fridays if those OpenCoffees do start again... :)12/10/2008
- johnbreslin: @pahlkadot: Can't follow that link you tweeted to the new series of V - can you repost?12/10/2008
- johnbreslin: Thinking that SocialMedia.net would work better as a message board site...12/10/2008
- johnbreslin: @walter Yikes just four hours of sleep? But I'm sure it was a good night - wish I was there!12/10/2008
- johnbreslin: Holy shoot! Delighted with the #iwa08 news for boards.ie...11/10/2008
- johnbreslin: hope the #iwa08 event goes well tonight @damienmulley11/10/2008
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