Career
His research publications have focused on the Social Semantic Web, and he co-authored a book on this topic in 2009. In 2010, Breslin set up the New Technical Post, an online technology publisher. A San Jose office for the New Technical Post was announced by Breslin in March 2011.
In 2004, while working as a researcher at DERI, Breslin founded the Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities project, a Semantic Web framework for data portability used in web applications such as Yahoo! SearchMonkey, Drupal 7 and the Newsweek website.
In 1998, Breslin set up an Internet forum to discuss video games which evolved into boards.ie, one of Ireland"s largest indigenous websites. He serves as a non-executive director with boards.ie Limited., and was awarded Net Visionary awards by the Irish Internet Association in 2005 and 2006.