Month: August 2006

  • Any questions for Sam Sethi?

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    Sam Sethi is an entrepreneur, technologist (entrepologist) and consultant. Sam has worked in the IT industry for over 15 years for companies like Microsoft (strategy director in MSN UK ), Netscape, Gateway Computers and CMGi, in a variety of senior technical and marketing roles. Most recently Sam has been charged with setting up TechCrunch UK.…

  • ComReg – the Telecoms Poodle

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    ComReg is the Irish telecoms poodle as opposed to the Irish Telecoms regulator which is what they claim to be! This is the organisation which has presided over Ireland being one of the most expensive countries in Europe for broadband and consequently Ireland having one of the lowest rates of uptake for broadband in Europe.…

  • Are Microsoft at the Web 2.0 races?

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    I have been asked to give a presentation, on Microsoft’s relevance in the Web 2.0 arena. What do people think, are Microsoft a player in this sphere? They have Office Live, Windows Live Mail, MSN Spaces and they are a big supporter of RSS – it will be baked into the next versions of Internet…

  • Blip.tv enable in-browser video recording

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    I have mentioned Blip.tv previously but I didn’t mention their in-browser video recorder. Today I decided to try it out and I have to say, apart from a few minor quibbles, I am well impressed. Especially since this function is still in Alpha. What quibbles did I have? Well The counter counting off the time…

  • AOL axes data leakers

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    I mentioned the AOL and user data cock-up a couple of weeks back. Now, according to a story on CNET today, 2 people have been left go from AOL and CTO Maureen Govern has resigned as a result. For the people whose data was leaked, many of whom were readily identifiable, this will be cold…

  • In-car GPS units

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    I drove to Dublin on Saturday. I had a couple of small jobs to do and I was going to the Blogger meetup in the Market Bar afterwards. Now I don’t know Dublin well at all so I was mighty relieved when a friend offered me the loan of a Sony GPS unit for the…

  • 3 men rescued after 9 months adrift at sea!

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    I was watching the Spanish news on TV this lunchtime and they reported a story about 3 fishermen who were rescued after being adrift at sea for 9 months! Intrigued and not catching all the story ‘cos of my crap Spanish! I Googled it and sure enough the story is well reported. However, a little…

  • Free, clean and constant energy?

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    I saw a post on Pat Phelan’s blog today about Steorn which sounded a little incredible, so I looked a little deeper into it. The background is that an Irish company called Steorn put a full-page ad in the Economist saying: At Steorn we have developed a technology that produces free, clean and constant energy….…