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.

- 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.
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- johnbreslin: Larry prusak talk: "the future is already here but it is unevenly distributed" (William Gibson)20/11/2008
- johnbreslin: Fixed planet.journals.ie database but I don't think anyone uses it much anymore, was down for a month...20/11/2008
- johnbreslin: @IrishTimesBiz that breaking news link is a 40420/11/2008
- johnbreslin: @euan some interesting blog posts on wikinomics.com about brownbook.net and parlus.com (you replied before I could fix typos on iPhone :))19/11/2008
- johnbreslin: @psd I agree, in fact there's a discussion going on about the wastage in one particular Irish campaign at http://url.ie/wqq19/11/2008
- johnbreslin: @Eirepreneur You've gone all "Sapphire and Steel" no-face mannish http://tinyurl.com/6rpt7d19/11/2008
- johnbreslin: @ryancarson Nice one re student tickets, I've passed on the news to researchers in DERI...19/11/2008
- johnbreslin: @damienmulley ...or even boards.ie Parenting, Beer Guts, Third Level Education, like, someone who actually buys bread instead of teenagers!19/11/2008
- johnbreslin: @duggan Hello, just found you!19/11/2008
- johnbreslin: @damienmulley Sounds like it was many ?000k misspent: not targetting the right age group; coulda gone for boards.ie food&drink targetted ads19/11/2008
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I’m actually surprised at the exponential growth, I would have thought it’d look different, i.e. constrained for long periods by capacity on boards.ie, constrained by the lack of broadband in Ireland. I wonder is it just the scale, if we had zoomed in graphs would there be periods of flatness?
I’m not sure if it’s scale David as from month to month there aren’t any flatlines… But I’ll try and get some more interesting views for my BarCamp Galway talk on the evolution of boards.ie…