it@cork Web2.0 Conference
Event type: Conference
Date: 2006-06-08
Rating: 5 out of 5

The Q&A session didn’t last very long but did throw up some interesting points.
To kick off, there were various tech questions for Rob. Then Fergus was asked how long it took to launch Nooked, He replied that it was about a [...]

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it@cork Web2.0 Conference
Event type: Conference
Date: 2006-06-08
Rating: 4 out of 5

As sponsers of the conference, it was only fair that Microsoft was given the opportunity to present their Web 2.0 wares. I talked to Rob the previous night to discover that he is an evangelist from Microsoft’s Platform and Developer Group. [...]

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it@cork Web2.0 Conference
Event type: Conference
Date: 2006-06-08
Rating: 4 out of 5

For out and out geekful rapture, Walter’s presentation was a joy. I think it was a very necessary presentation to give (and provided a very nice counter-point to Rob’s which followed). There is a perception I think, particularly amongst a lot [...]

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it@cork Web2.0 Conference
Event type: Conference
Date: 2006-06-08
Rating: 4 out of 5

I met Fergus for the first time at the EI Web 2.0 Conference back in April but his reputation far preceded him. He has been described as the consummate networker but I think this does him an injustice - he is [...]

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it@cork Web2.0 Conference
Event type: Conference
Date: 2006-06-08
Rating: 5 out of 5

Salim gave a suberb presentation which for me, as expected, was the highlight of the conference. I have heard chunks of the presentation on various Podcasts and it is still very focused on the ideas they built in PubSub despite the [...]

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it@cork Web2.0 Conference
Event type: Conference
Date: 2006-06-08
Rating: 3 out of 5

Shel Israel was the first to talk and really pitched the presentation at those who knew little about Web 2.0 or blogging. The bulk of the presentation was built around the themes in the book he wrote with Robert Scoble (Naked [...]

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it@cork Web2.0 Conference
Event type: Conference
Date: 2006-06-08
Rating: 5 out of 5

Tom, Catherine and all the team at IT@Cork put on a fantastic half day Web 2.0 conference on Thursday.
The geek dinner the night before set the scene perfectly - thanks again to Damien and all the organisers of that and [...]

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Technorati microformats search
Category: Search engine
Topic: microformats
Year created: 2006
Overall rating: 4 out of 5

Content rating: 3 out of 5

Design rating: 4 out of 5

Navigation rating: 4 out of 5

I was supposed to attend a microformats dinner [...]

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We recently set up this site to use sxore as our comment handling system. To quote from the FAQ:
sxore is an identity and reputation system for blog authors, readers and commenters. By acting as an intermediary between blog posts and comments, sxore provides a framework of identity for participants in the blog dialog…….sxore provides mechanisms [...]

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The Web 2.0 Conference in Dublin was a big success and was well worth attending. It was great to finally put faces to a lot of names in the Irish tech world and beyond. I went out the previous night to an informal meet-up arranged by Robert Smith. The layout of the place unfortunately was [...]

Posted in Business, StructuredBlogging, Web20, microformats 17 Comments »

hCard is one of the two main microformats that one sees mentioned (the other being hCalendar). There was an interesting discussion on it in the second Talkcrunch podcast. Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn.com was asked why they did not support hCard. He made the simple point that they only implement features on the site which give [...]

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Web 2.0 Pre-Conference Tapas
Begins: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 at 6:00 PM
Ends: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 at 11:30 PM
Location:
16a Fade St
Dublin D2
Ireland

Link: Attention lowly bloggers: Sip from the cup of Canter wisdom

Robert Smith has arranged a meet-up in the Market Bar off Sth Great Georges Street for next Wednesday April 26th. This is a Gastropub-style place [...]

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Web2Ireland Technology Club Event 2006
Theme: Web 2.0
Begins: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 at 9:00 AM
Ends: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 at 6:00 PM
Location:
The Helix, DCU,
Glasnevin,
Dublin
Ireland

Last date for registration: Thu, 20 Apr 2006
Last date for paper submission: Mon, 17 Apr 2006
Organizer: Dermot Murphy
Link: Enterprise Ireland
Link: Web 2.0 in Ireland

On Thursday week, there is a Web2.0 conference [...]

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