Category: social media

  • Should employers be blocking access to Facebook?

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    I was speaking to journalist Dermot Corrigan the other morning about Facebook. He was writing an article for yesterday’s Sunday Business Post on how companies have started blocking access to Facebook for their employees. This is presumably on the back of articles like the one in the Telegraph recently which claimed that: More than two…

  • mobiseer (mobile social bookmarking) needs more work

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    Nubiq have just launched the beta version of their second product – Mobiseer. Mobiseer is a social bookmarking tool for your phone. I wrote about their earlier product, Zinadoo – a website creation tool for mobile websites, last May. Mobiseer is available via the web and also on your phone’s browser at mobiseer.mobi. I must…

  • SAP's global Social Media survey

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    Shel Israel has been asked by SAP to do a global survey on Social Media. Shel emailed me a personalised list of questions as part of the survey process. Following on from Hugh’s inspired example, I am also going to answer Shel’s questions through my blog. Hey Shel, thanks for considering me for this project.…

  • LinkedIn to open api – are they too late?

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    I wrote a post last week mentioning Facebook’s open api and contrasting it to LinkedIn and today I read that LinkedIn CEO, Reid Hoffman has said that LinkedIn will be opening their api to developers in the next nine months. This is a necessary move on LinkedIn’s part as they are seeing their users desert…

  • Facebook review

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    Facebook seems to be new cool Social Networking toy of choice. It is a cool app, it has to be said, with the ability to easily create networks and groups of like-minded individuals. More than that, it has an api which allows 3rd parties to create apps which hook into it easily. Tripadvisor have developed…

  • Paddy Valley trip – help needed

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    There is a contingent of Irish heading to Silicon Valley in December (2nd to 9th) to meet up and forge links with the movers and shakers in the mecca of the computer world. The Paddy Valley Tour, as it is being called, has 17 Irish companies signed up so far. Many of those going are…

  • Lot of travel coming up!

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    In the next few weeks I am flying to Bilbao where I have been selected to be on the prestigious jury forStartup 2.0 – an international competition judging startup companies. Then I am off to Copenhagen for Reboot 2.0 where my suggestion for a talk about the energy efficiencies in the CIX data centre has…

  • Site re-brand

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    Tom Raftery’s Social Media is the new title of this blog. The old title, Tom Raftery’s I.T. Views, was more appropriate when I started the blog as my consultancy business was more techie then. With my consultancy business focussed almost entirely on Social Media now, I knew I had to make a change. Plus there…