- Daft invests in boards.ie (the official press release)
- Áine Coffey in the Sunday Times says (regarding the investment) that “talk is not very cheap” (well, there was also that $580 million purchase of MySpace by News Corporation, the ultimate owner of the Sunday Times…)
- The Minister for Communications, Eamon Ryan, makes his first post on boards.ie (spotted via IRC and Damien)
- The latest AMAS “State of the Net” bulletin reports on the growth of boards.ie (via the Sunday Business Post)
- boards.ie is shortlisted for “Best Discussion Forum” in the Moviestar.ie Irish Web Awards 2008 (yay, thanks to everyone who nominated us!)
- Over 50 competitors have signed up for the boards.ie SIOC Data Competition (and there’s still a month to go…)
- 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
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