Category: Web 2.0

  • Video interviewed by Loic

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    Loic Le Meur, France’s best known blogger and organiser of the Le Web conference interviewed me recently by Skype Video. Previously I had panned Loic very publicly for the way he handled the Le Web conference last year. Loic starts this video by asking how he can do better this year. Soliciting people’s opinions is…

  • 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.…

  • Yahoo!stopping Irish signups

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    I was trying to convince a client to set up a Flickr account yesterday however, they rang me to report that they were unable to get an account. Why? Because Yahoo! requires a postcode as part of the signup process and there are no postcodes for the majority of Ireland (there are postcodes for Dublin…

  • OpenDrinks Cork and Web 2.0 Expo

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    The European Web 2.0 Expo is being held in Berlin this year from the 5th-8th of November and it is shaping up to be a really high-profile event. The San Francisco Web 2.0 Expo in April had 12,000 attendees and the Berlin one is expected to attract at least 5,000 delegates. If you want to…

  • 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…

  • How to increase traffic to your blog

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    One of the questions which comes up often when I am giving talks about blogs is how to increase traffic to your blog. Well, Trent Hamm has written a 10-step program which he followed to take his blog  from 0 to 12,000 subscribers in six months. There are some great tips in there – I…

  • Callpedia

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    I came across Callpedia the other day. It is an interesting idea – you text a query to CallPedia’s text number (+353873204111) you wait a minute or so and then you phone CallPedia (+353766020331) and it reads out the WikiPedia entry for your query term I can see this being great in a situation where…

  • Zinadoo enables easy mobile site creation

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    Zinadoo.com is an online website creation tool specialising in creating websites for mobile devices! When you register with Zinadoo, you are setup with a free zinadoo.mobi subdomain. .mobi is the top level domain created specially for mobile devices. The timing of this is very coincidental as I did an interview with Neil Edwards, CEO of…