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  • Google has rolled out a web version of Google Talk

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    As the title suggests, Google has rolled out a Flash based version of Google Talk called Gtalkr. It includes a Yahoo Maps extension – as Google Maps is not Flash based – this is unfortunate because Yahoo Maps is US only 🙁 Gtalkr also includes your Gmail account automatically (you log in using your Gmail…

  • I'm at the IT@Cork conference today

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    I’m going to be at the IT@Cork Conference today (Wed 30th) – Robert Scoble is Opening the conference with a talk on Business Blogging – I can’t wait. I’ll be blogging the conference live on the IT@Cork blog and I’ll be recording interviews with delegates and speakers – I will upload those interviews on the…

  • Michael Arrington interview

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    I was talking to Michele Neylon last night and he was in great form noting that the number of subscribers to his site had passed the 100 hundred mark – I’m afraid I punctured his balloon when I mentioned I had just been interviewing Michael Arrington – Michael only set up his TechCrunch blog reviewing…

  • Shel Israel podcast

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    The Shel Israel interview went ahead last night, as planned. Shel was great, full of warm humour, interesting insights and relevant anecdotes. below are the questions I asked him and the times in the podcast they were asked: Shel, what is it about Ireland that appeals to you? – 1:15 You guys wrote Naked Conversations…

  • 10 blogging tips

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    Steve Rubel has written a Ten Blogging Hacks post. There are some interesting suggestions there like using Writely as your blog editor (I have written about Writely before) – Writely has a spell checker and allows for online collaboration in writing so if you want to collaborate in the drafting of a post, Writely could…

  • Arla Foods, Europe's largest dairy company has started blogging

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    I noticed that according to a post on Loic Le Meur’s blog, Arla Foods, Europe’s largest dairy company has started blogging. Loic tells us that: Arla now has three different blogs, all in Danish. They want to tell us about nutrition and health, the life on a farm and what’s happening “behind the scenes” in…

  • WordPress.com "major drive failure"

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    I mentioned in a post earlier this morning that I was having problems accessing wordpress.com blogs – wordpress.com is a hosted multi-user version of the blog software I use, WordPress. The site is now available again but suffered a “major disk failure” according to a message on the wordpress.com Dashboard. The data loss is presumably…

  • IT@Cork blog

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    I created an IT@Cork blog today. The blog is run out of WordPress using Michael Heilemann’s K2 theme. The blog will be for members of the IT@Cork Steering committee to discuss events, the conference and also to solicit ideas from the membership for ways to improve IT@Cork moving forward. There’s very little in it yet…