Month: June 2006

  • Irish schools being blocked from accessing social networks

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    Tom Raftery
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    RTE is the Irish national broadcaster and Morning Ireland is RTE’s flagship news program. Morning Ireland reported this morning that social networking sites MySpace and Bebo will be blocked from all Irish schools from September this year. The reason given for blocking the sites is that they are too time consuming. So far I can’t…

  • Identity disorder

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    Tom Raftery
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    More and more sites these days ask you to create an account to access their functionality. Each time you create an account, that’s one more username/password combination to remember because in this age of identity theft, using the same username/password combination across sites is a serious no-no. Then along comes the idea of open identity…

  • Do you search the future?

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    Tom Raftery
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    I did a small bit of blog and social media consultancy for Roam4Free yesterday and it still never ceases to amaze me how few people are aware of prospective search. Prospective searching is the ability to search the future. It is the ability to enter a search term in a search engine and say tell…

  • PeopleAggregator goes live – anyone want in?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Marc Canter‘s Digital Lifestyle Aggregator (DLA), called PeopleAggregator, launched in Alpha mode overnight. BroadbandMechanics says PeopleAggregator is: a social network web service that will be used to inter-connect the world’s social networks – together. We can only do that by opening up and giving away our APIs and techniques for doing so. So instead of…

  • Microsoft Ireland's error prone Tablet PC competition!

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    Tom Raftery
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    According to Dave Northey, Microsoft Ireland are giving away a Tablet PC – all you have to do is answer a survey before June 30th to be in with a chance of winning. The only catch is that when I tried to go to the survey page to answer the questions I received the following…

  • My Mac crashed!

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    Tom Raftery
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    My Mac crashed just now. Completely crashed, froze for a sec, then went into a re-start. It re-started no problem, the only thing which was lost was the couple of minutes it took to re-start and re-open all my apps. Why did it crash – I was trying to get into Audacity at the time…

  • Geotagging photos in Zooomr made simple

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    Tom Raftery
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    Via Thomas Hawk, I found this handy tutorial on how to geotag your photos for Zooomr. This is useful if you want people to be able to see where your photo was taken. In Zooomr geotagged photos appear with a Google map (including satellite imagery) of the location the photo was shot. For example see…

  • Any questions for Thomas Hawk?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Thomas Hawk is an investment advisor in a non technology related field but it is not for that that he is known. Tom is far better known as a digital media and technology enthusiast – specifically, Tom is extremely well known for the photographs he uploads to Flickr. Tom posts several photos a day, all…