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

Posted Sun, 02/24/2008 - 18:45 by John Breslin

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).

Keynote speakers lined up for BlogTalk

Posted Tue, 01/08/2008 - 22:56 by John Breslin

I'm happy to announce that we have four interesting and varied keynote speakers lined up for the BlogTalk 2008 conference on social software in Cork this March.

Social corkware, Web 2.0 and BlogTalk

Posted Wed, 12/05/2007 - 23:50 by John Breslin

So why is BlogTalk 2008 coming to Cork, Ireland? You may not know it, but there are a lot of connections between the "People's Republic of Cork" and the world of Web 2.0 and social software.

Opening up the social graph at the WebCamp workshop on "social network portability"

Posted Tue, 11/27/2007 - 18:21 by John Breslin

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A WebCamp "Social Network Portability" workshop has been announced to be co-located with BlogTalk on 2nd March 2008. You can view the wiki page for this event.

Lally Logic hits Galway

Posted Fri, 10/26/2007 - 21:10 by John Breslin

Brendan Lally is visiting Galway at the moment; do any Web 2.0 heads want to meet up for dinner in Galway tomorrow evening (7:30 PM on 27th October 2007)?

If so, drop me an e-mail.

Press release: "Sharing knowledge on technology and business at the BarCamp 'unconference'"

Posted Mon, 09/17/2007 - 21:34 by John Breslin

The "BarCamp Galway" event will be held at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway from 10 AM on the 22nd of September. BarCamp is a technology-focused, informal gathering of people from technical and business backgrounds, where information and experiences are exchanged. The event is geared towards sharing knowledge and learning from others, and there is a policy of encouraging active participation in all discussions.

BarCamp Ireland Jaiku channel

Posted Tue, 08/21/2007 - 13:46 by John Breslin

Aidan has set one up - join in and discuss the forthcoming BarCamp Galway:

http://jaiku.com/channel/barcampireland

State of the SIOC-o-sphere (#5)

Posted Thu, 08/09/2007 - 17:47 by John Breslin

It's that random time of the year again where I summarise what's been going on in the world of SIOC...

Schmap tourist guides

Posted Mon, 07/09/2007 - 16:28 by John Breslin

Just found out about the Schmap set of dynamic travel guides, since a Flickr photo of mine was selected as the image for King's Chapel in Boston. The site uses Google Maps for plotting and navigating through the various attractions.