I was quoted for this article in the Sunday Tribune by Damien about our boards.ie CI (commercial interaction) forums. There are other interesting parts to the article, in particular Cisco’s move into the social networking domain earlier this month. When I wrote earlier about Cisco’s “Human Network” ad, I hadn’t realised that Cisco had actually purchased Tribe.net (and Five Across), thinking that they were content to simply have us use their networking infrastructure for whatever collaborative purposes we enjoyed. But despite much bewilderment, there seems to be some good reasons for this acquisition (see Marc Canter’s list and Winer’s tongue-in-cheek take on the move). (From the Semantic Web side, maybe Cisco could be persuaded to provide further convergence via OpenID, Tribe’s FOAF provisions and something similar from Five Across’ “Connect” product.)

- John Breslin (nickname Cloud or Cloudie) is...
- Currently a researcher and adjunct lecturer at DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland in the areas of the Semantic Web and social software.
- 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: http://www.milanstankovic.org/opo/ - Online Presence Ontology, interesting work from Milan and Jelena5/9/2008
- johnbreslin: @endamadden: In Ireland, Ronan Fox, HCLS lead at DERI; worldwide, maybe Susie Stephens who co-chairs the W3C HCLS interest group... Mail me29/8/2008
- johnbreslin: If you leave your phone no. on voicemail, please say it twice cos if the only sample is indistinct you'll get no reply (two cases today)29/8/2008
- johnbreslin: @eliast where to after IBM? Missed the news...27/8/2008
- johnbreslin: @walter @jdrumgoole And FreeBSD powers (most of) boards.ie...27/8/2008
- johnbreslin: @walter I'm thinking of getting something from LaCie - good prices, free delivery apparently http://www.lacie.com/ie/index.htm seen on ILUG27/8/2008
- johnbreslin: @NiaLLLarkin - On my blog? I think I'm doing the reverse - using posts from my blog to make excerpts for the book!!!27/8/2008
- johnbreslin: Working on Social Semantic Web book...27/8/2008
- johnbreslin: rofl @conorwade26/8/2008
- johnbreslin: lol @damienmulley26/8/2008
Recent Comments
- george on Be Bert. Be Ernie. Just be.
- chucky on Latest news from Patrick Tilley, author of “The Amtrak Wars”
- thosch on DERI, NUI Galway launches the boards.ie SIOC Data Competition
- The Semantic Puzzle | Boards.ie SIOC Semantic Data Competition starts September 1st on DERI, NUI Galway launches the boards.ie SIOC Data Competition
- Mary Jane Hurley Brant on John O’Donohue laid to rest today in Fanore
Recent Posts
Comp Blogs
Irish Blogs
- Ó Caoimh, Donncha
- Ó Lachtnain, Antoin
- Ó Muineachain, Conn
- Browne, Paul
- Byrne, Ed
- Collison, John
- Collison, Patrick
- Connolly, Jerry
- Cooley, James
- Delevan, Richard
- Feeney, Martin
- Flinter, Steve
- Gallagher, Andrew
- Goldbach, Bernie
- Hanna, Jon
- Kelly, Piaras
- King, Dan
- Kruk, Sebastian
- McCormac, John
- McHugh, Maura
- Murphy, Tom
- O’Murchu, Ina
- Organ, Derek
- Raftery, Tom
- Shanahan, Gerry
- Sheridan, Gavin
- Smith, Brendan
- Tighe, Mark
- Walsh, Michael
- Waters, Mark
My Sites
SW Blogs
Categories
- Adverts
- Anime
- BarCamp
- Blogs
- BlogTalk
- Boards
- China
- Cork
- Data Portability
- DERI
- Education
- Electronics
- FOAF
- Gaeilge
- Galway
- Games
- General
- Internet
- Ireland
- Japan
- Korea
- Literature
- Mobiles
- Motors
- Movies
- Music
- New Zealand
- NUI Galway
- OpenCoffee Club
- Photos
- Podcasts
- Radio
- RSS
- Satellite
- Science Fiction
- Semantic Web
- SIOC
- Social Media
- Social Networks
- Social Software
- Television
- TripPlanr
- Unix
- US
- Video Games
- Web
- Web 2.0
- WebCamp
- Wikis


Are you talking about Cisco using more social network type activities? What would they specialize in? I don’t know the niche market seems to be the way to go with movie social networking sites finding early success. I would not be surprised if many other larger tech companies bout up sites like filmcrave.com or plugIM. That is great that you were quoted.