Month: August 2006

  • Free ringtones is where the money is!!!

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    Free ringtones? Money? I noticed a discussion over the weekend (this last weekend was a long weekend in Ireland) on adsense income and one contributor said he was making $2,000 per month from his ads on free-ringtones.ie and what’s more, he was making around $5,000 but he has let the site slide. And he knows…

  • Your privacy – why you should care

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    Tom McGurk hosted an interesting debate on privacy last week with representatives of Digital Rights Ireland and the data protection commissioner last week (shame his show has finished and Ryan Tubridy has returned!). Bernie has a copy of the discussion and a great synopsis of it. One thing which disappointed me was the number of…

  • PodLeaders listener survey

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    Tom Raftery
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    After producing over 40 PodLeaders episodes, I am curious to know who the listeners are. Also, I am investigating trying to monetise PodLeaders venture somewhat! PodTrac is a company which connects podcasters to advertisers so I am trying to determine the PodLeaders audience profile to see if the site is suitable for advertising. Just look…

  • Any questions for Mike Hudack?

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    Tom Raftery
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    Mike Hudack is the founder and the CEO of video sharing service blip.tv which I reviewed here. I’m interviewing Mike this Monday evening (7th Aug 2006) for a PodLeaders podcast. We will be talking about blip.tv, the video sharing space in general blip.tv’s recent CNN deal, digital media in general and anything else that may…

  • How to blog – blog training course

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    Tom Raftery
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    I am developing and running a blog training course starting next September 25th for IT@Cork. It will be a 5 week course, one hour a week (6pm Monday evenings) in the National Software Centre in Mahon. It will be open to non-members and members of IT@Cork alike. The course fees will be €50 for IT@Cork…

  • Dennis Howlett – mad, hammer wielding, subscriber!

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    Mad as in angry that is! Dennis was so infuriated with the router his ISP (Telefonica) gave him and the cruddy service he constantly received from them that he smashed up his router with a hammer and put the video up on YouTube! A must see! By the way Dennis, you might want to check…

  • Video sharing sites ToS reviewed

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    Simon of Tuppenceworth has a great post where he reviews the terms and conditions of video sharing sites (YouTube, Blip.tv and Google Video). Simon works in McGarr Solicitors a well known law firm in dublin. I haven’t tried Google Video yet but I have tried both Blip.tv and YouTube and I much prefer Blip.tv. Google…

  • Serious mail probs

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    I have been having serious mail problems the last couple of days. If you sent me a mail and I haven’t responded, there is a chance I didn’t receive your email. Please presume I didn’t receive your email and re-send it. Or phone/skype me!