Had a brief interview with Joanna and Daniel on Anna Livia FM’s breakfast show this morning about boards.ie. Hope to get a podcast of it shortly… Conversation ranged from the origins of the site to Boards Beers to wikis to the Gathering cards.
- 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.
Twitter
- johnbreslin: @polldaddy brilliant news re automattic acquisition! Congrats...15/10/2008
- johnbreslin: @evilphil not that I know of of...15/10/2008
- johnbreslin: Dries Buytaert: "...if Drupal core supported FOAF and SIOC out of the box, you could search within your network of friends or colleagues."15/10/2008
- johnbreslin: Call for Participation: W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking, Barcelona, 15-16 January 2009. See http://www.w3.org/2008/09/msnws/14/10/2008
- johnbreslin: @patphelan that Sony tv offer looks cool... Wonder is it in all Sony stores? Congrats on the IWA win!13/10/2008
- johnbreslin: @tommykxr trusttommy would make sense to me13/10/2008
- 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
Great stuff! Can’t wait to hear it. Must have been a good one if you got onto meaty topics like wikis!
Hey John,
Joanne e-mailed me an MP3 of the interview and I’ve uploaded it if you or anyone else reading this wants to listen to it again.
http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~steve/interview/
Sorry, shoulda added… good show
Handled the Gathering Cards question well 
Thanks Steve!
No bother, glad to be helpful for once
Well done John! Cheers for the MP3 Steve.