I attended the yearly IT Association of Galway Barbeque on behalf of DERI last week - it was an enjoyable night, and you can check out the ITAG website for other forthcoming events including Managing Teams Remotely, Borderless Ireland, and the ITAG Industry Awards 2007.
Monthly Archive for August, 2007
…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.
The result will be called social.ie (pronounced “socially” :-)). It will leverage our existing boards.ie userbase and the social network connections that have been formed on the site since I added friends functionality three years ago (so far, there are 15335 links between users, 6347 of those are reciprocated). The screenshot below shows the buddylist functionality in vBDrupal that has been hacked a little to be a bit more graphical.
Will post more as it happens…
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
Post growth
Thread growth
Just had lunch with Richard and John, and talked about the upcoming World Cyber Games Ireland finals which will be held on the 15th and 16th of September. It sounds like it’s going to be a great two days, and only for a family wedding I’d pop up for a look… You can register at lanparty.ie for the event.
Yes, the rumours are true, Thomas Burg, Tom Raftery and I are currently putting together a plan of action for a forthcoming BlogTalk 2008 conference. The event is provisionally scheduled for early March 2008 in Cork… More as it happens!
As mentioned in a previous blog post, int.ere.st has just launched. The main objective of int.ere.st is to demonstrate how Semantic Web and Web 2.0 technologies can be combined to provide better metadata creation and sharing support across various online communities.
With int.ere.st, you can save, tag and bookmark your own as well as other people’s tag clouds, as represented using the SCOT ontology. The tag meta search also allows you to look for similar patterns of tagging from other people based on their interests (as expressed using tags).
Some functionalities of int.ere.st include:
- Various options for tag searching, such as and (&), or (space), co-occurrence (+), broader (>), and narrower (< )
- User searching
- Resource searching
- Integrating tagged data across communities
- Meta tagging
- Ontology bookmarking
- Sharing metadata produced using the FOAF, SIOC, and SCOT ontologies
You can try it at out at http://int.ere.st/. Here are some video demos of int.ere.st in action, and some more videos are forthcoming:
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