Category: Web 2.0

  • Phew!

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    Tom Raftery
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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…

  • Google launches online presentations

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    Tom Raftery
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    Google announced today that they have added an online presentation function to their Google Docs and Spreadsheets. The new application is called Google Docs Presentations and its functionality is available under the New menu: You can import existing PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, OpenOffice files and you can email documents to the application. However, there is…

  • First iPhone photo editor app?

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    Tom Raftery
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    .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Pixenate on the iPhone, originally uploaded by pxn8. Having recently successfully deployed their Pixenate FaceBook app (a photo editor for Facebook), it looks like Sxoop Technologies are now out to be…

  • Google updates Mobile Google Reader – gPhone imminent?

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    Google has done a significant upgrade of the mobile version of Google Reader, as well as the desktop version. I haven’t seen this written up anywhere yet (apologies if you wrote it up and I missed your post). Look at the bottom of the screenshot above. There are new links for Tags, Subscriptions, Settings, Sign…

  • Ryanair thinks Eamon DeValera is a crook?

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    Saw this when playing with WikiScanner this afternoon – someone in Ryanair edited a Wikipedia article on Dublin’s Southside to say that Eamon DeValera was a crook! Poor Eamon will be turning in his grave!

  • Google Reader updates

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    Tom Raftery
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    Overnight Google added search functionality to Google Reader. What is amazing is that it took so long for an ostensibly search-related company to add this to the Reader. Having said that, the search functionality rolled out is extensive allowing searching of individual feeds, all feeds, or by folder lavel. If you don’t see this functionality…

  • Cork-based telecoms firm raises €5m

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    Pat Phelan’s Cubic Telecom have released details of €5m worth of investment they have received. Cubic Telecom is the parent company of the Roam4free and Yak4ever brands. From the release Cubic has raised a EUR3.5M investment from private backers in order to develop a suite of innovative global mobile and home phone products under the…