Category: IT@Cork

  • Hans Rosling's talk at the 2007 it@cork conference

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    Hans Rosling gave the opening address at the 2007 it@cork Technology in Business Conference. His talk was incredibly eye opening as the Trendalyzer software he developed shows how the world is “double inversely logarithmically unjust”. Watch and enjoy!

  • Reducing your Costs and your Carbon Footprint – presentation

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    I gave a talk at the it@cork Green IT event yesterday entitled “Reducing your Costs and your Carbon Footprint”. The talk goes into some detail on how Cork Internet eXchange, the cork-based data centre I am a director of, achieves hyper energy efficiency. http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=reducing-your-costs-and-your-carbon-footprint-1204720215720098-2 | View | Upload your own It is also worth noting…

  • CIX on Intruders.tv

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    We held our Open Day in CIX a couple of weeks back. We invited local businesses to come in and have a look at the data centre infrastructure before we closed up all the ducts and hazardous areas. We also invited Intruders.tv to come along and film the event. They did and they published the…

  • "Education only hampers learning"

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    Last Wednesday I had the very great pleasure of collecting Prof. Hans Rosling from the airport to bring him to the it@cork conference (where he kicked off the day with an inspirational presentation). In the car, on the way to the conference though Prof Rosling made a comment which I thought was extremely unusual for…

  • Conferences can be fun!

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    I am back in Cork after the Eventoblog conference in Seville over the weekend. Now I am helping with last-minute preparations for the it@cork conference. It is on this coming Wednesday and it is going to be a real ‘wow!’ event. Apart from the incredible speakers that are lined up, the delegate list is like…

  • Cubic Telecom wins an it@cork Leader Award

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    A big congrats to Pat Phelan and the Cubic lads on Cubic Telecom’s winning the it@cork Leaders Award in the Emerging Company category. Pat was up against some very stiff competition and I am glad I wasn’t involved in the judging ‘cos I know Tom Keane of Nitrosell and Paul and Frank from YouGetItBack as…

  • Phew!

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    These next few weeks and months are manic busy. I am giving a Keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin on November 7th. I am on a Web 2.0 panel at TechEd in Barcelona on November 8th I am chair of the organising committee of this year’s amazing it@cork conference on November 28th I…

  • Congrats to the guys in Jaiku

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    I see Jaiku were bought by Google yesterday. What is Jaiku? Jaiku is what Twitter would be if it worked reliably and had neat functionality. I’m delighted for them. If you don’t currently have a Jaiku account then you may be out of luck because in the notification email sent out by Jaiku last night…