Month: August 2005

  • Blog posts for sale?

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    Damien has raised the interesting issue of using bloggers for product reviews and knowing that I am a business blogging consultant, he has asked for my opinion. This is a very tricky question Damien – on the one hand, as a blogger and a techie, I love new toys. I have a homer Simpsonesque tendency…

  • Google refuses to talk to CNET News.com!

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    I was reading a story on CNET News.com about how both Google and MSN’s search results appear to differ in their own favour on searches about the Google and MSN legal battle. When I reached the end of the story I saw: (Google representatives have instituted a policy of not talking with CNET News.com reporters…

  • Mighty Mouse dissected

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    There’s a great post on Ars Technica on a dissection of Apple’s new Mighty Mouse. The authors, Jacqui Cheng and Clint Eckers, do a complete technical dissection of the mouse explaining what each part of the Mighty Mouse is and include some great photos and diagrams of its internals. This all adds to the hype…

  • Yahoo! tests blog search in Korea

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    I see News.com have a story showing that Yahoo! are beta testing a blog search application in their Korean Yahoo! site. Apparently Yahoo is planning to begin testing the same capabilities for its U.S. blog-publishing service in the coming weeks. This is all very timely considering Dave’s taking me to task for dismissing Yahoo! recently!…

  • New Mobile phones – 1 in 7 faulty

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    Which Magazine have published a report which shows that one in seven mobile phones goes wrong within a year in the UK and 70% of the faults occurred in the first six months. Video phone operator 3 had the poorest record, with one in three handsets on its network having problems in the first 12…

  • Damien catches me Googleshaming!

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    I see Damien caught me Googleshaming (again) and he kindly helps out by linking to my Where to eat in Glengariff post using the link title “review of Casey’s Hotel Glengariff” – nice one Damien, Thanks.

  • Where to eat in Glengarriff

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    If you find yourself in the beautiful West Cork town of Glengarriff and you are looking for somewhere to eat, I can heartily recommend you stay well away from Casey’s Hotel Glengarriff. I was there last weekend with my wife, my son and my wife’s nephew and we had lunch there – the food was…

  • Which Search Engine?

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    In the comments of a recent post comparing Microsoft’s Virtual Earth with Google maps, I was quite rightly taken to task by Dave for suggesting that Yahoo! are not a significant player in map search. Dave informed me that: Yahoo’s revenues are way way bigger than Google. Google are a tiny company compared to MS…