Category: Web 2.0

  • Online webinar software

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    Speaking of my goldfish-like memory, I have completely forgotten the name of a Web 2.0 webinar application I came across a couple of months back. I remember giving it a quick once over and thinking “Hey that’s cool” – especially since I now have a GoToMeeting appointment for this afternoon and GoToMeeting doesn’t run on…

  • Online video

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    I have been playing a bit doing some research on YouTube. I realise YouTube has been around a while and I have watched many videos on it but I hadn’t looked into uploading video to YouTube until now. YouTube is a site which allows you to upload video clips (in the same way that Flickr…

  • 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…

  • Digg must be feeling very flattered!

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    They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery – if that is true then Digg must be feeling very flattered right about now! AOL’s Netscape site is being converted from a portal into a Digg clone! You can see it for yourself at beta.netscape.com for now. It will convert to the main Netscape site…

  • 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…

  • God, I'm getting old!

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    Tom Raftery
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    This is an article which was run in yesterday’s Irish Examiner (Friday June 2nd 2006) in the wake of the controversy surrounding CMP/O’Reilly’s trade marking of the term Web 2.0. The picture of me included in the article shows just how much the stress of the last couple of weeks has aged me. I can…

  • Sorry Tim

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    Tim O’Reilly has responded to the whole Web 2.0 trademark/C&D fiasco of the last number of days. In his response Tim apologises to IT@Cork: I apologize to IT@Cork for the organizational failure that led to them getting a legal letter rather than a simple email query or phone call. Thanks Tim, I will accept your…

  • 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!…