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Recent and not-too-old news about boards.ie

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  • 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…)
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  • 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).
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