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• DERI FOAF Internet Semantic Web SIOC Social Media Social Software US Web Web 2.0

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

  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. As part…

  June 24, 2009
• BlogTalk DERI FOAF Galway NUI Galway Semantic Web SIOC Social Networks Social Software US Web 2.0

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

  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 talk at BlogTalk 2008 in Cork). Nova is CEO of one of the companies that is practically…

  March 25, 2008
• Blogs BlogTalk Cork Internet Ireland Semantic Web Social Media Social Networks Social Software US Web Web 2.0

  Keynote speakers lined up for BlogTalk

  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. Nova Spivack – Founder and CEO, Radar Networks Nova is the entrepreneur behind the Twine “knowledge networking” application, which allows users to share,…

  January 8, 2008
• Ireland US Web 2.0

  Videos of "Paddy's Valley" to VC pitches

  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. Joe Drumgoole, PutPlace (pitch, Q&A, site) Marcus Mac Innes, Pix.ie (pitch, site) Jan Blanchard, Tourist Republic (pitch, Q&A, site) Hélène…

  December 6, 2007
• Blogs Internet Japan US Web 2.0

  Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo: Evan Williams, co-founder of Twitter – “In conversation with Tim O’Reilly”

  The first talk of the day was a conversation between Tim O’Reilly and Evan Williams. Evan started off by forming a company in his home state of Nebraska, then moved to work for O’Reilly Media for nine months but says he never liked working for other people. A little later…

  November 16, 2007
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  Brewster Kahle's (Internet Archive) ISWC talk on worldwide distributed knowledge

  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…

  November 13, 2007
• Internet US Web Web 2.0

  Schmap tourist guides

  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.

  July 9, 2007
• Ireland US Web 2.0

  "Paddy's Valley" Trip

  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…

  June 30, 2007
• US

  Shootings in Virginia Tech

  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,…

  April 16, 2007
• Boards DERI SIOC US

  Cambridge, the Semantic Web and Entrepreneurship

  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. We also had…

  March 3, 2007