Biography

John Breslin is a lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the School of Engineering and Informatics, NUI Galway, and a researcher with DERI, a Semantic Web research institute at NUI Galway. He is leader of the Social Software Unit at DERI. He is co-author of the book "The Social Semantic Web" (Springer, 2009). John is General Chair of the forthcoming BlogTalk 2010 conference. He is also the founder of the SIOC project (Wikipedia article), which aims to interlink online communities with semantics.

John has received a number of awards for website design, including a Golden Spider for the Irish community website boards.ie (Wikipedia article), which he co-founded in 2000. The Irish Internet Association presented him with Net Visionary awards in 2005 and 2006. John is a director of boards.ie Ltd. and co-founder of Adverts Marketplace Ltd., and is also an advisor to some social media companies including CrowdGather and Social Bits. He has been interviewed or cited by various media sources including New Scientist, Computer, PC World, The Sunday Times and RTÉ. He is the editor of socialmedia.net, a blog discussing the future of social media.