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WebCamp: Social Networks, an open day-long event on social networking took place in Galway last week and was a success.

There were 6 talks on a wide range of topics and 50-60 people attending the event. Any more and the largest meeting room in DERI would have been too small.

The two presentations I will look at in particular are "Social Network Analysis 1987-2007" by Valdis Krebs and "Topics, Tags and Trends in the Blogosphere" by Conor Hayes.

Keynote talk by a social and organisational network analysis expert Valdis Krebs about various projects he has worked on in this arena during last 20 years covering experience in almost 500 SNA/ONA projects. This talk is for anyone interested in social networks and social network analysis. See also his blog post "Can it really be 20 years?".

A talk by Conor Hayes about topic clustering in blog networks. It would be interesting to combine a rich data model of SIOC-enabled sites with a topic clustering analysis Conor is working on.

All the presentations were good and you can see them at Slideshows tagged: WebCamp. Or see a blog entry "After the WebCamp workshop on social networks" by John Breslin who organised this WebCamp.