Just looking at the latest Alexa Web Search - Top 500 for Ireland, I see that Daft.ie, eircom net and boards.ie are sitting in places 14 to 16 respectively in the listings. However, I may choose to disregard the top 13 sites (multinationals like Google, eBay etc. with or without an Irish presence) for purposes of my ego…
- 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.
- 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: @boards_ie says: "Most users ever online was 4,792, Today at 17:03. Currently Active Users: 4450 (1236 members and 3214 guests)"5/1/2009
- johnbreslin: Gosh, I registered http://belfa.st for five years... Any ideas for it? Currently points to a boards.ie forum5/1/2009
- johnbreslin: RT @kidehen: different RDF Linked data view of data from @Carnage4Life's RESTful search: http://tinyurl.com/9eo7fb . Follow: sioc:links_to .5/1/2009
- johnbreslin: RT @damienmulley: Via Boards.ie: D4 hotels (dublin) rooms euro 20.09 per night sun to thurs Jan Feb http://www.d4hotels.ie/pages/ wifi free!5/1/2009
- johnbreslin: Nice welcome from www.colinbakeronline.com to new Doctor Who Matt Smith4/1/2009
- johnbreslin: @interactivemark Haha loved your 2009 predictions for Digital Media in Ireland Great! http://tinyurl.com/7bkw5l29/12/2008
- johnbreslin: Using Dark Room (http://they.misled.us/dark-room) for some green on black text editing of book...29/12/2008
- johnbreslin: @martastrickland No I didn't get to the Web 3.0 conf; I did present tutorials at SemTech and WWW this year on related topics. Love the post!29/12/2008
- johnbreslin: Installing wiki2touch on iPhone with the WIkipedia as Gaeilge (an Vicipeid)23/12/2008
- johnbreslin: RT @socialmedianet: Blog post: Celebrity twitterers and other famous tweeple: http://socialmedia.net/?p=13323/12/2008
What is the traffic of boards.ie in terms of page impressions. RTE claim about 20 million a month.
We might be the Pope’s children, but I doubt he approves of all those visits to 35 and 44?
Prude nation? Not behind our mouses we’re not
It’s possible that the figures for Alexa are for accesses from Ireland to any websites, so that RTÉ may have a bigger worldwide figure. Our page views usually range from 7 to 8 million per month.