September Open Coffee Galway will be held at Webworks building, Fairgreen Galway (beside the coach station) this Friday at 11am.

Henry Story will give a short talk/discussion on the emerging Social Web.

Henry was until recently Social Web Architect at the late Sun Microsystems (now Oracle). Before joining Sun he developed the BabelFish machine translation service at AltaVista in the late 1990ies.

He has been working on blogging tools, specs (Atom), and recently on the emerging Social Web.

The Talk: Current Social Networks are centralised: members can only “friend” other members of the network. But why? With a telephone one can call people the whole world over independently of the network operator used. With email you can send a message to the whole world. So why can we not connect across networks? This would allow users to control their data much better, something which for many individuals and organisations is vital.

In this talk Henry Story will explain both where the problem lies, and how it can be solved, leading to the emergence of a wholly new web ecosystem.

Hope to see you there

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June Open Coffee Galway will be held this coming Friday at Webworks Galway, Fairgreen, Galway city at 11am.

Hope to see you there.

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As May Open Coffee Galway coincides with Green Open Coffee the same Saturday, May 1st, I would like to take the opportunity to bring Open Coffee Galway to Tipperary.

According to Google Maps it takes 1 hour and 32 mins to get to Cloughjordan in North Tipperary.

I know that it may not suit many to travel but I think it’s an opportunity to meet other Open Coffee members and the chance to check out the ecovillage that they have there – it is Ireland’s only ecovillage at present.

There is also a community farm and a green enterprise park undergoing development.

It is to be held in Sheelagh na Gig on the main Street from 10:30 am onwards.

I will be car pooling and will have 2 seats free in my car for on the way and back.

I will stay for lunch and head back around 3pm that afternoon. Please contact me via Linkedin if you would like a lift.

There is also an Event page on Facebook that you can RSVP to.

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Your Country Your Call comes to Galway and will be held at Hotel Meyrick in the Connemara Suite this Wednesday.

The workshop is open to the public are free of charge and will take place as follows:

Galway: 24th March 2010, 7.30pm, Meyrick Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway.

The workshop will last for about two hours and promises to be a lot of fun as well as being informative and helpful.
If you would like to participate, please send an email to workshop@yourcountryyourcall.com indicating which event you would like to attend.
Please note that places are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
The workshops are being run in conjunction with jump and The Irish Times.

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The next Open Coffee Galway will be held the 6th of March at the Hotel Meyrick. A-list blogger Damien Mulley is to give a talk on how he used the power of Social Media to do business. It will be held at 11 am upstairs in the Executive Suite. Please follow @MeyrickHotel for special coffee promos that you will be able to avail of on the day! Hope to see you there.

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The first Galway Open Coffee Galway 2010 will be taking place at the Hotel Meyrick.

It will be held upstairs in the Executive suite in the Hotel.

This month there will be a talk given by Liam O’ Morain of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute.

Liam will be giving his talk on Linked Data.

Wikipedia defines Linked Data as “a term used to describe a recommended best practice for exposing, sharing, and connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic Web using URIs and RDF.”

As the Web shifts away from a Web of Documents towards a Web of Data Liam’s talk aims to give an insight into this coming shift with the Web.

Linked Data will affect your business on the Web if you have a website. To find out more about both Linked Data and the future of the Web the talk will be held at 11am Saturday morning, January 30th, at Hotel Meyrick.

Hope to see you there.

These are just a few of the datasets that are being connected and reused on the Web.

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Hi everyone the Christmas Open Coffee Galway will be held in the Oyster Bar at the Hotel Meyrick at the bottom of Eyre Square this Saturday at 11am.

See you there!

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Open Coffee Galway will be held this Saturday 31st of October in Javas Coffee House on Abbeygate Street in the city centre at 11am.

Hope to see you there.

Hope to see you all there!

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Hi all! Open Coffee Galway October 2009 will be held at the Westwood Hotel this coming Saturday at 11am. There is plenty of parking space. We will hang out around the bar of the hotel and I hope to see you there.

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Hi Everyone,

The next Open Coffee Galway will take place the first Saturday in September. I will announce details of the venue and also the time.

Enjoy the rest of the Summer/Autumn till then.

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