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Prototype for distributed / decentralised microblogging using semantics

Posted Fri, 05/09/2008 - 20:18 by John Breslin

Download the paper and get the code.

Try out our anonymous client and server demos for SMOB.

I wish I was going to XTech 2008 in Dublin...

Posted Tue, 05/06/2008 - 13:54 by John Breslin

...but unfortunately due to a major review here next week, I have a lot of presentation preparation to do.

Anyway, if I were going to XTech 2008 tomorrow in Dublin, here's what I'd go to see (thanks to the XTech 2008 personal scheduler):

9:45 Wednesday, 7 May 2008
Opening keynote
David Recordon (Six Apart)

11:00 Wednesday, 7 May 2008
Using socially authored content to provide new routes through existing content archives

CELT talk / WWW@15 on Morning Ireland / Ulrich Schnauss

Posted Fri, 05/02/2008 - 15:10 by John Breslin

A mixed-up blog post, but I haven't the energy to write three separate posts, so here's a three-in-one:

Slides from the SIOC tutorial at WWW2008

Posted Mon, 04/28/2008 - 16:51 by John Breslin

Here are the PowerPoint slides from our tutorial on "Interlinking Online Communities and Enriching Social Software with the Semantic Web" at the World Wide Web Conference in Beijing - you can also download them from here:

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WWW2008 Beijing: Dr. Kai-Fu Lee (Google) - "Cloud Computing"

Posted Wed, 04/23/2008 - 14:15 by John Breslin

Kai-Fu Lee is Vice President of Engineering at Google, and President of Google Greater China. He joined Google in 2005, and developed the first speaker-independent continuous speaker recognition system, for which he won a Business Week award in 1988.

Really cool SIOC widget from Sindice (for WordPress)

Posted Sun, 04/20/2008 - 13:15 by John Breslin

I've installed the new Sindice SIOC widget, produced by Adam, Fabio and Giovanni from the Sindice team.

As you can see, if you look at the post author or click into any comments list, each user now has a speech bubble beside the username. Clicking on this bubble will show you posts, comments and topics created by that user across the "SIOC-o-sphere".