Month: November 2006

  • Any questions for Eddie Hobbs?

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    Eddie Hobbs is an Irish television presenter and financial adviser. He is also a speaker at the 2006 it@cork annual conference where he’ll be speaking about advantages of investing in IT as opposed to property. I will be interviewing him tomorrow (Tuesday November 7th) as part of the pre-conference podcasts. If you have any questions…

  • Where are the Irish Business Blogs?

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    In my excitement at being shortlisted for the Netvisionary awards and in coming quite high in Justin’s Technorati-ranked Top 100 Irish blogs, I missed something fundamental – the fact that I am doing well is a very poor reflection on the state of business blogging in Ireland. What do I mean? Well, one of the…

  • Slow comments in WordPress

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    In the last couple of weeks commenting on this site was taking longer and longer – sometimes timing out and not letting people comment at all. I was puzzled as to the cause of this and tried turning off various of the plugins I had installed on this blog. Today though I think I have…

  • Thank you everyone

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    The shortlist for the IIA Netvisionary awards has been announced and I have been shortlisted for the Best Blogger award for this blog, and the Best Podcast award for the PodLeaders.com podcast. Considering I am up against Twenty Major and Michele Neylon in the Best Blogger category and Bernie Goldbach and Brian Greene for the…

  • The Irish Road of Doom!

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    Via MacManX comes the Irish Road of Doom! I knew the roads in Cork were bad, but jeez!

  • Microsoft Office? Oh yeah, I remember that…

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    Via the Google Blogoscoped site comes news of Google’s integration of Google Spreadsheets and Docs into Gmail. Now, anyone receiving an Excel spreadsheet as an attachment in Gmail will be offered the option to open the Spreadsheet in Google Spreadsheets (see below). Similar functionality has yet to be added for Word documents but, no doubt,…

  • Top 100 Irish blogs

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    Justin Mason has put together a list of the top 100 Irish blog sites by Technorati rank and by inbound links. Jason obviously put a huge effort into doing this and serious kudos to him for doing it. If it weren’t too difficult to do Justin, a monthly report of these numbers would be fascinating…

  • Up is down, black is white, Microsoft does Linux deal with Novell!

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    From the “They said it would never happen dept” comes news today that Microsoft have signed a deal with Novell! The deal has been summarised into three main points by Dana Gardner: Under a technical cooperation agreement, Novell and Microsoft will work together in three primary areas to deliver new solutions to customers: virtualization, web…