Social media and the semantic web

John breslin

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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Me in full

Social mediais exploding!

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• .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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Sites go up...

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Facebook and twitter

...and sites come down

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bebo

Boom!

Survey of bloggers by technorati

Social media sites are like data silos

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Many isolated communities of users and their data

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Need ways to connect these islands

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Allowing users to easily move from one to another

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Enabling users to easily bring their data with them

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Semantics

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Sioc, Pronounced shock

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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

Semantic search

semtweet

Stuff that looks exciting

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igranddad

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Augmented reality minus hype

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Everywhere Real-time streams

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unwalled gardens

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now at amazon.com

My new book

I blog/interact at Socialmedia.net

Feel free to ask me any questions