John Breslin

John Breslin (born 1973 in Dublin) is an Irish engineer and full professor at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His research publications have focused on the Social Semantic Web, and he co-authored two books on this topic in 2009 [1] and 2015.[2] He has served as secretary of the American Council on Exercise since 2017.[3]

For the American politician from Ohio, see John G. Breslin.

In 2015, Breslin co-founded the Galway City Innovation District to create startup-friendly spaces in downtown Galway.[4] The first space, the PorterShed, is a refurbished former Guinness building that opened to startups in April 2016.[5]

In 2011, Breslin was announced as a co-founder of StreamGlider, a visual real-time dashboard for tracking interests across various types of devices, along with Nova Spivack and Bill McDaniel.[6][7]

In 2010, Breslin set up the New Tech Post, an online technology publisher.[8] A San Jose office for the New Tech Post was announced by Breslin in March 2011.[9]

In 2007, Breslin met the Collison brothers while Patrick was studying at MIT, and came up with the name for their first company, 'Shuppa', during a brainstorming session over dinner.[10]

In 2006, Breslin co-founded adverts.ie, an online classified ads website and spin-off from boards.ie. The adverts.ie site was acquired in a joint venture by Distilled Media Group and Schibsted Media Group in 2015.[11]

In 2004, while working as a researcher at DERI, Breslin founded the Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC) project, a Semantic Web framework for sharing social data[12] and used in web applications[13] such as Yahoo! SearchMonkey,[14] Drupal 7[15] and the Newsweek website.[16]

In 1998, Breslin set up an Internet forum to discuss video games[17] which evolved into boards.ie, one of Ireland's largest indigenous websites.[18] He was awarded Net Visionary awards by the Irish Internet Association in 2005 [19] and 2006.[20]

See also

References
  1. "The Social Semantic Web". springer.com. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
  2. Omitola, Tope; Ríos, Sebastián A.; Breslin, John G. (2015). "Social Semantic Web Mining". Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web: Theory and Technology. morganclaypool.com. 5: 1–154. doi:10.2200/S00623ED1V01Y201412WBE010.
  3. "Board of Directors". acefitness.org. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
  4. Hof, Robert (31 December 2015). "Startup Mecca Rises From Abandoned Guinness Storehouse". Forbes. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  5. Maher, Rebecca (13 April 2016). "First Companies to Move into PorterShed". Galway Independent. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  6. Rao, Leena (21 December 2011). "StreamGlider Takes on Flipboard And Pulse With Sleek Social Interest And News Reader for the iPad". TechCrunch. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  7. Spivack, Nova. "The Venture Production Studio Model". Minding the Planet.
  8. Collins, John (18 February 2011). "Web Log". The Irish Times. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
  9. "Galway Firm Announces Second Silicon Valley Office". Irish World. 31 March 2011. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
  10. "Tweet by John Breslin, 10 years after meeting the Collisons". 2 March 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  11. "Daft.ie and DoneDeal.ie merge in new venture". Irish Times. 9 July 2015. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  12. Perez, Juan Carlos (21 January 2009). "Data Portability: Reasonable Goal or Impossible Dream?". The Washington Post. Retrieved 7 December 2009.
  13. "SIOC Ontology: Applications and Implementation Status". w3.org. 12 June 2007. Retrieved 6 December 2009.
  14. "SearchMonkey vocabularies". Archived from the original on 23 December 2009. Retrieved 7 December 2009.
  15. Dries Buytaert (19 October 2009). "Just committed RDFa support to Drupal 7!". Retrieved 7 December 2009.
  16. Steven Pemberton (27 May 2010). "Newsweek using RDFa". Archived from the original on 1 June 2010. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
  17. Mulley, Damien (5 December 2005). "A New Net Visioned He – Interview with John Breslin". mulley.net. Retrieved 6 December 2009.
  18. Boran, Marie (14 February 2008). "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum". Irish Independent. Retrieved 6 December 2009.
  19. netvisionary.ie (17 November 2005). "IIA Chairman Colm Lyon, Social Contribution winner John Breslin, boards.ie, and Category Sponsor David Curtin of the IE Domain Registry". Archived from the original on 18 November 2007. Retrieved 6 December 2009.
  20. netvisionary.ie (16 November 2006). "IIA Chairman Colm Lyon, Online Trader winner John Breslin, boards.ie/adverts.ie, and Category Sponsor Stephen McDonagh of Realex Payments". Archived from the original on 18 November 2007. Retrieved 6 December 2009.

Bibliography
  • Tope Omitola, Sebastián A. Ríos, John Breslin, "Social Semantic Web Mining", Morgan Claypool, ISBN 978-1627053983, 2015.
  • John Breslin, Alexandre Passant, Stefan Decker, "The Social Semantic Web", Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-01171-9, 2009.
  • John Breslin, Stefan Decker, "The Future of Social Networks on the Internet: The Need for Semantics", IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 11, pp. 86–90, 2007.
  • John Breslin, Andreas Harth, Uldis Bojars, Stefan Decker, "Towards Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities", The 2nd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC '05), LNCS vol. 3532, pp. 500–514, Heraklion, Greece, 2005.
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