DCU Business School / Dublin, Ireland / 19th February 2010

1. Social media and the semantic web
John breslin

2. Me In brief
• Lecturer in engineering and informatics
• Researching the semantic web at deri
• Co-founder of boards.ie ltd.
• Advisor to various social media companies
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3. Me in full
johnBreslin.org
Johnbreslin.com
Twitter.com/
johnbreslin

4. Social media
is exploding!
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5. • .61 = social networks
• .11 = forums
• .11 = UG content sites, e.g. UrbanDictionary.com
• .10 = UG marketplaces, e.g. Craigslist.org
• .03 = Blogs
• .01 = UG reviews, e.g. ApartmentRatings.com
• .01 = Wikis
• .02 = Other
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6. Sites go up...
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7. Facebook and twitter

8. ...and sites come down
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9. bebo

10. Boom!

17. Survey of bloggers by technorati

18. Social media sites are like data
silos
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19. Many isolated communities of
users and their data
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20. Need ways to connect these
islands
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21. Allowing users to easily move
from one to another
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22. Enabling users to easily bring
their data with them
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23. Semantics

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28. Sioc, Pronounced shock
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32. Sioc in drupal 7
• Drupal 6 is used by whitehouse.gov,
warnerbrosrecords.com, onion.com...
• Alpha (test) version of drupal 7 released
in january
• Full version expected in mid-april

33. Semantic search

34. semtweet

35. Stuff that looks exciting
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36. igranddad
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37. Augmented reality minus hype
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38. Everywhere Real-time streams
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39. unwalled gardens

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41. My new book
now at amazon.com

42. I blog/interact at
Socialmedia.net
Feel free to ask me any
questions