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An influential blogger?

Oct 12, 2005

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I have been called many things in my time (one or two even complimentary – thanks mom!) but this is the first time anyone has called me influential *blush* Thanks guys!

19% of small businesses using blogs?

Oct 12, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Business blogging, Technology

BL Ochman reported today that 19% of small and medium businesses are using blogs as marketing tools: Nineteen percent of small and medium sized businesses report that they are using blogs as marketing tools. That’s according to Interland’s 2005 Small…

Developments in search

Oct 11, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Search Engines, Technology

Two search announcements overnight: Chris Pirillo announces a new search engine – Gada.be and Yahoo! builds blog search into its News Search service The Yahoo! blog search engine is disappointing – from a user interface point of view – the…

Irish Blog Awards?

Oct 10, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Technology

Damien has posted a suggestion on his blog that there should be an Irish Blogs and Podcasts Awards and he followed it up with a post on Boards.ie so that there could be a discussion about it (Damien’s comments are…

Yahoo! attacks iTunes podcast monopoly

Oct 10, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Podcast, Search Engines, Technology

Yahoo! have just rolled out Yahoo! Podcasts – a service which lets users find, listen and subscribe to podcasts. PodTech has an interview with Geoff Ralston, Yahoo!’s Chief Product Officer about the new offering where he says: We want this…

Google launches online rss feed reader

Oct 9, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Business blogging, RSS, Search Engines, Technology

In case you missed it, Google launched their online feed reader application Google Reader (in Beta) on Friday. Google Reader has an amazing interface built in Ajax and uses a “Lens” analogy for reading feeds. I can’t help but think…

What exactly is RSS?

Oct 9, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Business blogging, IT@Cork, RSS, Search Engines, Technology

Have you heard about RSS and wondered what exactly it is? Well in technospeak RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it is a family of XML file formats for web syndication. To put it more simply, the technology behind…

Cnet names its top 100 blogs

Oct 7, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Technology

Cnet today published its list of the top 100 blogs today – as expected Tom Raftery’s IT Views was amongst the top 100 – not! The list names all the usual suspects: Scoble, Engadget, Schneier on Security, et al. Some…

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