Category: Web 2.0

  • BT get a clue?

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    Dennis Howlett has two interesting articles today on BT! Think about that for a sec. If you are Irish and you saw someone say that there were two interesting articles on Eircom you’d have to sit down for a while you’d be laughing so hard. Dennis’ two articles are about a new SaaS offering from…

  • Le Web 3 – I want a refund

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    Here is the text of an email I just sent to Le Web 3 organiser Loic Le Meur: Loic, I am furious at the way you arbitrarily decided to change the Le Web conference schedule without any notification to the people who paid good money and took valuable time out of their schedules to attend.…

  • Interesting business model proposed for TinyURL

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    David Berlind over at ZDNet has a very interesting take on how TinyURL could monetise the use of its site. TinyURL, in case you didn’t know, is a site where you can paste in long URLs and the site spits back out much shorter URLs which can then be used in emails, forums etc. without…

  • Wikis for quality manual projects?

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    Wikis are great tools for documentation projects. Especially if the people creating the documents are dispersed geographically. However, I am embarking on a project to write a quality manual for the CIX data centre (Cork’s first fully redundant data centre). Part of the process in creating a quality manual is that the various sections within…

  • How to advertise to me

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    Advertising any product to me is becoming more and more difficult. It is not just me, there is a growing number of people who are discovering ways to skip ads almost completely in their daily lives. In my own case, I honestly can’t remember the last time I bought a newspaper but it would be…

  • Microsoft Belgium gigs

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    The presentations I gave to Microsoft Belgium this morning went really well and I received tremendously positive feedback. I have been asked not to talk about the content of the talks so I can’t say anymore about those. I met some cool people there. Dave and Tom organised the event, and ran it really smoothly,…

  • Busy couple of days

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    I have a busy couple of days ahead – expect light posting. – today I have a couple of CIX-related sales meetings – I have an it@cork pre-conference podcast with Eddie Hobbs to edit and publish – tomorrow I have several meetings in Dublin followed by the Netvisionary Awards night – Friday I have an…

  • Your top Web 2.0 apps?

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    If we ignore the fact that the term Web 2.0 is controversial for all kinds of reasons and concentrate on the applications themselves, which Web 2.0 apps (using the broadest possible definition) do you use most? I use: my blog and podcast software all the time (they are run out of WordPress) my Flickr account…