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Co-founder of Last.fm to speak at BlogTalk 2008 on 4th March

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on 24/2/2008
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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!

Five days left to register online for BlogTalk 2008!

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on 22/2/2008
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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!)

“A funny thing happened on the way to the forum”: Article in Indo about 10 years of boards.ie

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on 15/2/2008
in BlogTalk, Blogs, Boards, Cork, DERI, Games, Internet, Ireland, NUI Galway, SIOC, Semantic Web, Social Media, Social Networks, Social Software and Web
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20080214a.png 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.”

Read more…

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.

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10 years of posts on boards.ie today!

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on 12/2/2008
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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…

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“Sound byte” faoi eolas pearsanta agus an Idirlíon ar TG4 aréir

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on 12/2/2008
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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.

xCellerate 2008: “Bringing Silicon Valley to Ireland” (IWTC clash)

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on 6/2/2008
in Internet, Ireland, Web and Web 2.0
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Via Gareth Coen, I just heard about two events being held later this month - on the 27th and the 29th of February in Dublin and Belfast respectively - called xCellerate 2008. The central theme is “Bringing Silicon Valley to Ireland” and it is geared towards Irish technology startups. There will be angel and venture capital investors attending from both sides of the Atlantic, as well as successful Internet entrepreneurs on the panel. To receive a 40% discount on registration, use the code “web2″. (There is a small problem in that this event clashes with the Irish Web Technologies Conference at which I’m due to speak.)

Proposed association for the Irish digital media industry

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on 4/2/2008
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I attended an inaugural dinner last Tuesday for a proposed new association to represent those in the interactive digital content / media delivery and consumption space (thanks to Paul Walsh for organising, and to Microsoft / Blacknight for sponsoring). I was happy to meet some new people and to talk to many familiar faces at Jaipur (see Paul Campbell’s headshots).

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As both an academic and a some-time developer, I was keen to see how third-level institutions and students could benefit from such an organisation, and I was also interested to find out how content providers such as boards.ie could represent their interests to other members, including mobile services and legislators. But I also tried to nail down in some manner what domain this association would target (ignoring the whole “name” issue): was it mobile content, web content, broadcast content, and was there a division or an overlap with other representative groups (IIA, etc.)? I didn’t get an exact response from anyone but I think this will evolve in the coming weeks…

More reports from Maryrose Lyons, Paul Campbell, Joe Drumgoole, Dennis Deery, and Paul Walsh himself.

Inbox crises / JMJ / i102-104 tests

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on 29/1/2008
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Inbox crises

After clearing another few hundred e-mails out of my inbox on the plane to London yesterday, and realising that Thunderbird’s tagging of messages wasn’t really doing anything useful for me, I’ve now created five subfolders of my inbox with various levels of priority. I hope this works better, because things have been out of control lately…

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JMJ

I booked a ticket for Jean-Michel Jarre at the National Concert Hall in March. Yay!

i102-104 tests

I haven’t heard anyone playing Tangerine Dream on the radio (apart from myself!), but i102-104 (a new station launching in February) are looping them as part of their test transmissions.

Programme announced for BlogTalk 2008

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on 23/1/2008
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We recently announced the programme schedule for the 5th International Conference on Social Software (and the co-located workshop on social network portability), to be held in Cork in six weeks time. We have an interesting set of keynote speakers and invited panellists so far (with one keynote to be confirmed).

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Also, the list of accepted presentations at the conference is varied and interesting, with some familiar faces and some new ones shown below. (In all, we accepted six presentations from practitioners, two from developers and six from academics. We’ve interspersed these in the schedule, but grouped by related topics.)

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Finally, I’d like to thank our reviewers, without whose help the selection would have been an impossible task. (The breakdown of our committee was seven academics and 15 non-academics).

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If you are interested in participating, I’d advise booking tickets as soon as possible as we do have an upper limit of 200 attendees. We will have a drinks reception in UCC’s Aula Maxima on the Sunday, followed by an optional blogger’s dinner for those interested. On Monday, the main conference dinner will be held in the Kingsley Hotel.

XTech 2008, May 6th-9th 2008, Dublin, Ireland

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on 21/1/2008
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Call for Participation for XTech 2008

Proposals for presentations and tutorials are invited for XTech 2008, Europe’s premier web technologies conference. The deadline for submitting proposals is January 25th, 2008.

XTech 2008 will be held from May 6-9th 2008, in Dublin, Ireland.

XTech’s theme this year is “The Web on the Move”, focusing on the emerging portability of data, applications and identity on the internet. We will explore the benefits, issues, practicalities and fun of a web built on open standards, open source and commodity technology.

XTech presentations should inspire, educate and challenge. Your audience will be people like you, responsible for steering the technological direction of their organizations and the web as a whole.

Last year’s schedule can be viewed on the XTech 2007 web site.

Please direct any questions to the conference chair, Edd Dumbill.

View the calls for participation and submit a proposal

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Social platforms
    • Design patterns for social software
    • Social network interoperability
    • Internet application platforms (Facebook F8, OpenSocial, etc.)
  • Identity management
    • OpenID
    • Practical security
    • OAuth
  • Ajax
    • jQuery, YUI, other toolkits
    • Offline applications
    • Comet
    • Professional Javascript
    • Flex
  • The web of data
    • Collective intelligence
    • Semantic technologies
    • Search
    • Markup and meaning
    • Freebase, Twine, Google Base
    • The place of XML on the web
  • Data and databases
    • Client-side databases
    • REST-oriented databases (e.g. CouchDB)
    • XML and RDF
    • Messaging architectures
    • XQuery
  • Operations and programming
    • Web application frameworks
    • Virtualization and appliances
    • Application scaling
    • Multicore and concurrency oriented programming
  • Mobile devices
    • Commodity mobiles
    • Android, iPhone
    • Hardware hacking and personal prototyping
    • Geolocation
    • Getting the mobile mindset

(Note: DERI will be a co-host of this event.)