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Archive for February, 2008
The first WebCamp event in India was held yesterday in Chennai. By all accounts it went very well, and congratulations to organiser Prahbu on its success! It sounds like there are more Indian WebCamp events in the pipeline as well…
I am happy to announce that Michael Breidenbrücker, co-founder of Lovely Systems and of Last.fm Ltd., will be our fourth keynote speaker at BlogTalk 2008 in Cork (he will speak on Tuesday week).
Michael has been actively involved in interactive digital media since 1999 and is widely recognised for his expertise in the areas of interaction design and product development. Lovely Systems is a web technologies company providing localised video portals serving hundreds of gigabytes of video each day. Their latest service is Zoomer.de, which was launched last week. Last.fm was incorporated in 2002 as an internet radio station and music community website, and the related Audioscrobbler music recommendation system was fully merged into Last.fm in 2005. The company was acquired by CBS Interactive in May 2007. You can read more about Last.fm on their Wikipedia page.
Unfortunately, Rashmi Sinha is now unable to speak at this event. Hopefully Rashmi can present at BlogTalk 2009!
Please note that online registration for BlogTalk 2008 (and WebCamp Social Network Portability) will close next Wednesday, 26th February 2008.
You can register at Amiando.
There are a few discount codes out there.
(Don’t forget to sign up for the optional blogger’s dinner as well!)
As part of the DataPortability initiative, I’ve put together this video explaining why I think it’s important and how it fits in with the Semantic Web and SIOC:
(Edit: An audio recording of this morning’s steering group telecon is now available.)
I referenced this on the SIOC-Dev mailing list recently, and when I pasted it on the DataPortability.org steering group chat this morning (in parallel with our first phone conference), Drummond Reed suggested I blog it. It’s originally from MIT’s Stefan Marti:
- XML customised tags, like:
- <dog>Nena</dog>
- + RDF relations, in triples, like:
- (Nena) (is_dog_of) (Kimiko/Stefan)
- + Ontologies / hierarchies of concepts, like:
- mammal -> canine -> Cotton de Tulear -> Nena
- + Inference rules like:
- If (person) (owns) (dog), then (person) (cares_for) (dog)
- = Semantic Web!
(Picture by Duncan Hull.)
Irish Independent > Business > Technology > A funny thing happened on the way to the forum
After 10 years, John Breslin’s online forum on everything from personal relationships to motors and mustard, boards.ie, is still blazing a trail
By Marie Boran
Thursday February 14 2008
Want to know where you can buy the cheapest digital camera, or how to go about claiming rent relief, or maybe if buying cowboy boots would be a fashion disaster?
The world relies on Google but the Irish have boards.ie. On this online bulletin board no question is too trivial or too bizarre and with an average 900,000 visitors to the site every month, there are plenty of answers on offer.
It is hard to believe that a decade ago, on 12 February, 1998, boards.ie founder John Breslin wrote expectantly: “The first of many messages, I hope.”
Of course, there are four other people who have made boards.ie possible: Tom Murphy, Dan King, Gerry Shanahan, and Jerry Connolly. Without them and our amazing team of voluntary moderators, I doubt boards.ie would even exist today. Original questions and answers follow.
It’s been 10 years today since that historic first post on the Quake board, and to celebrate the event, we’re running a competition on boards.ie for a big screen TV worth €1202 (it’s the date, get it?). To enter the competition, have a read of the instructions here. The screenshot shown below (from the board in 1998) may bring back some memories…
Bhí mé ar Nuacht TG4 aréir, ag caint faoi eolas pearsanta ar an Idirlíon. Tá tú in ann é a fheiceáil anseo, ag 12 nóiméad agus 52 soicind.
As you may or may not know, it will be ten years since I made that historical first post on the Quake board on the 12th of February 1998. We’re planning to run a competition on boards.ie to celebrate our 10 years of history; details will be forthcoming.
In the meantime, I thought you might enjoy this tag cloud compiled from a survey we did last year which asked people “why do you use boards.ie?”:
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