Social Media and the Semantic Web

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 image from tinyurl.com/orionw

Me in full johnBreslin.org Johnbreslin.com Twitter.com/ johnbreslin

Social media is exploding! image from tinyurl.com/nuketest

• .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 Text from tinyurl.com/briscougc

Sites go up... image from tinyurl.com/rocket15

Facebook and twitter

...and sites come down image from tinyurl.com/elhell

Survey of bloggers by technorati

Social media sites are like data silos image from pidgintech.com

Many isolated communities of users and their data image from pidgintech.com

Need ways to connect these islands image from pidgintech.com

Allowing users to easily move from one to another image from pidgintech.com

Enabling users to easily bring their data with them image from pidgintech.com

Semantics

image from tinyurl.com/notderry

Sioc, Pronounced shock image from tinyurl.com/siocshock

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 image from tinyurl.com/fireflames

igranddad image from apple.com

Augmented reality minus hype image from tinyurl.com/arwiki

Everywhere Real-time streams image from sonyericsson.com

unwalled gardens

image from tinyurl.com/starshiptr

My new book now at amazon.com

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

Social Media and the Semantic Web

by John Breslin on Feb 19, 2010

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