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Open government and Linked Data; now it's time to draft...

Posted Wed, 06/24/2009 - 20:25 by John Breslin

For the past few months, there have been a variety of calls for feedback and suggestions on how the US Government can move towards becoming more open and transparent, especially in terms of their dealings with citizens and also for disseminating information about their recent financial stimulus package.

Nova Spivack visits DERI, NUI Galway and talks about Twine: Radar Networks' semantic social software product in beta

Posted Tue, 03/25/2008 - 21:05 by John Breslin

20080325b.png In association with the IT Association of Galway, DERI recently invited Radar Networks' Nova Spivack to speak at our research institute in the National University of Ireland, Galway (Nova also gave a

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.

Videos of "Paddy's Valley" to VC pitches

Posted Thu, 12/06/2007 - 19:09 by John Breslin

Well done to the Paddy's Valley Irish entrepreneurs who gave great pitches to venture capitalists in the Bay Area. And thanks to Damien for the videos. Here are the links.

Brewster Kahle's (Internet Archive) ISWC talk on worldwide distributed knowledge

Posted Tue, 11/13/2007 - 08:57 by John Breslin

Universal access to all knowledge can be one of our greatest achievements.

The keynote speech at ISWC 2007 was given this morning by Brewster Kahle, co-founder of the Internet Archive and also of Alexa Internet. Brewster's talk discussed the challenges in putting various types of media online, from books to video:

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.

"Paddy's Valley" Trip

Posted Sat, 06/30/2007 - 15:35 by John Breslin

A bunch of Irish people and others are travelling to Silicon Valley on 2nd December 2007 to try and build some long-term relationships and friendships with the people over there (so it's good for the Valley and good for the Paddys!). You can be a company, a sole trader or just a nosy person who wants to meet up with people over there... More information at paddysvalley.org.

Shootings in Virginia Tech

Posted Mon, 04/16/2007 - 23:36 by John Breslin

Terrible breaking news about the shootings at VT, and the death toll is still rising. I spent some months there in 1996 and 2000, so recognising quite a few of the places on the TV news coverage :( I wish they wouldn't show the amateur mobile phone video footage though, it's just not right.

Cambridge, the Semantic Web and Entrepreneurship

Posted Sat, 03/03/2007 - 09:57 by John Breslin

Had a busy but very productive 24 hours of dinners, meetings, and other discussions here in Cambridge. Last night, myself and Stefan met with Kingsley Idehen, where we had a great chat over dinner about SIOC, the Semantic Web and ongoing work in both OpenLink and DERI.