Category: Web 2.0

  • Google Calendar reviewed

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    I recently decided to re-visit the online calendar issues I wrote about previously. Since writing that piece, Bernard informed me of a site called iCal Exchange which allows publishing and subscribing of iCal calendars. This service was ok but I had connectivity issues with it from time to time plus I didn’t want to have…

  • Web 2.0 conference in Cork attracts international speakers

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    IT@Cork – the not-for-profit, networking organisation for IT professionals, is holding a half-day conference on Web 2.0 on June 8th next. The speaker list includes Salim Ismail, co-founder of PubSub, Shel Israel, co-author with Robert Scoble of the business blogging book Naked Conversations and Fergus Burns, founder of Nooked. The preliminary conference agenda is as…

  • Windows Live Mail's exclusionary philosophy

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    Robert Scoble (of Microsoft) wrote a post the other day claiming that “Windows Live Mail (formerly Hotmail) has a philosophy?“. I’m sure they do but the philosophy they have is far different from the philosophy Scoble claims. He says: The Windows Live Mail team just got a philosophy. Companies that have pro-participant philosophies, especially in…

  • Enterprise Ireland Web 2.0 event

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    I’m off to hear Marc Canter, Jeff Clavier, Judy Gibbons, et al speak at the Enterprise Ireland Web 2.0 event tomorrow (Thursday Apr 27th) – if you are going to be there, please introduce yourself, I’d hate to be the one sat in the corner with no friends!!!

  • Technorati tag search broken?

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    I did a couple of tag searches on Technorati this afternoon – but they came up empty – I wasn’t so surprised with one or two of the more obscure ones I tried but when my search for the tag Google came up with the following message: There are no posts with that tag yet.…

  • AjaxWrite reviewed

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    AjaxWrite is yet another online word processor – I have writen previously about other online word processors like Writely, ZohoWriter and WriteBoard. AjaxWrite is free like the other online word processors but where it differs is that with AjaxWrite, you don’t save your documents remotely, you save them locally, on your own pc. This has…