…and everything is going to plan so far. There’re about 20 people here already, with more on the way. Listening to Gráinne from InterTradeIreland talking about the Seedcorn business competition… I’ll be talking about Semantic Web 2.0 later on, and also looking forward to talks from Paul Browne and Alastair McDermott.

- 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: 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
- johnbreslin: @damienmulley thanks! Delighted with them as you can imagine... I believe our unique visitors from Ireland are the highest...19/11/2008
Recent Posts
- boards.ie has the second highest number of unique visitors to an Irish website
- Judges for the boards.ie SIOC Data Competition
- IET and CompSoc present a talk on the “Social Semantic Web” on 27th November
- Upcoming events of interest…
- Interview for Journalism.co.uk… Journalists get to know the Semantic Web!
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