Category: Web 2.0

  • RecruitIreland adds RSS feeds

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    Via Mick in a comment on this post comes news that Irish recruitment website RecruitIreland.com is now offering RSS feeds on search results. RSS is ideal for recruitment sites, real estate sites, travel sites, etc. basically any site with updating content where people search for information! On the RecruitIreland site, I like the fact that…

  • Collaborative software gets hotter!

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    A lot has already been written about Jotspot’s announcement that they were acquired by Google yesterday – congratulations to Joe Kraus and the team. JotSpot is a wiki application with builtin functions for adding calendars, spreadsheets, blogs, photos, etc. This was a predictable enough move on Google’s part as they had no wiki software in…

  • Another Microsoft gig

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    On the strength of my last presentation to Microsoft in Switzerland in September, I have been invited to give a presentation to Microsoft Belgium on Web 2.0 The presentation is scheduled for November 17th. There will be a blogger’s dinner in Brussels on the evening of the 17th – more details on that as I…

  • Sometimes it pays to listen

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    I wrote, shortly after Google bought YouTube, that this purchase was a potential windfall for YouTube copyright claimants however recent happenings are proving me wrong (imagine that!). Prof Tim Wu (Professor of Law at Columbia) wrote recently in an article in Slate that YouTube (or GooTube as people are now taking to calling it): is…

  • OPML autodiscovery

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    OPML is a file format which is used to save lists of RSS feeds. Very handy, for instance, for copying your list of RSS feeds from one feed reader to another. I uploaded a list of my RSS subscriptions to an OPML file on this server so the Grazr plugin in the sidebar on the…

  • Les Blogs 3 registration now open

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    Loic has announced the opening of the registration for Les Blogs 3. It is on in Paris on Dec 11th and 12th, and costs €300 (excl VAT) if you register before November 11th. The event has been renamed Le Web 3 to better reflect the broader focus on Live Web applications and not just Blogs…

  • Shel and Rick coming to town!

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    Shel Israel (former PR exec turned social media consultant) and Rick Segal (highly respected VC) are coming to Cork next Tuesday. Rick and Shel, as well as attending the blogger’s dinner that Pat has arranged for them, are also making themselves available to meet entrepreneurs on the afternoon of Tuesday Oct 17th. If you have…

  • Google Blogsearch adds ping

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    Thanks to Niall Kennedy for pointing out Google’s new ping service. This is great – one of the biggest problems I had with Google’s blogsearch was how slow it was to pick up on posts. Several hours after posting an article, typically it still wasn’t up on Google whereas the post is often up on…