Category: IT@Cork

  • Last night's blogger's dinner

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    Last night’s blogger’s dinner was a great success – thanks to Pat for organising (and paying for) it. Shel Israel and Rick Segal were the guests of honour and both had lots of interesting info to impart. Rick talked up MusicIP – I missed the start of the conversation but I assume MusicIP is a…

  • Any questions for Jeff Nolan?

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    Jeff Nolan is a former executive at SAP (Jeff led the Apollo Strategy Group for SAP – aka the Oracle Attack group) and recently joined a silicon valley startup called Teqlo. I will be interviewing Jeff tomorrow for the IT@Cork pre-conference podcast series. If you have any questions you would like me to put to…

  • Blog training course commences

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    I’m just about to kick off the first of the it@cork blog training events – there are five training sessions between now and October 23rd. Hopefully I won’t totally bore the pants off the attendees and we’ll get some new and interesting blogs emerging from the course!

  • Java Experts to speak in Cork

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    Catherine Wall of IT@Cork asked me to mention IT@Cork’s upcoming Java event. Simon Ritter of Sun Microsystems and Adrian Colyer from Interface21 will address developers in the Radisson Hotel, Cork on October 3rd. Simon is a Java Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems. He specialises in looking at emerging technologies including grid computing, Auto-ID, robotics and…

  • IT@Cork Web 2.0 conference talks podcast

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    I finally got around to putting up the talks from the IT@Cork Web 2.0 Conference! Shel Israel led off the talks at the IT@Cork Web 2.0 conference with a great introduction to blogs and social media – drawing very much on his experience co-authoring a book on business blogging called Naked Conversations called Naked Conversations…

  • Shel Israel loves Cork!

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    And why wouldn’t he? It is where all the cool kids go. Dublin is soooo 1990’s! Shel was in Cork recently at the IT@Cork Web 2.oh! conference. He has written up his impressions of the state of entrepreneurialism in Cork (mostly good) and has now started to sport the People’s Republic of Cork t-shirt that…

  • IT@Cork Web 2.0 conference

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    The IT@Cork Web 2.0 half-day conference took place last Thursday (June 8th) and the reviews have been overwhelmingly positive! Close to 130 attendees turned up despite it being the hottest day of the year so far. Photo credit Donncha O’Caoimh The structure of the conference was: Shel Israel explained what Web 2.0 is Salim Ismail…

  • I couldn't possibly condone this!

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    After reading about IT@Cork’s recent legal tussle with O’Reilly’s over the use of the term Web 2.0 in our upcoming conference, Keith Bohanna has bought the domain Web2PointZeroConference.com! He is auctioning it on Ebay with all proceeds to be donated to IT@Cork. The last time i checked the bidding was up to over €200! Woo!…