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  • What is Social Media's 'big thing' for 2008?

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    Photo Credit darkmatter First off – a big apology to everyone who is subscribed to this blog for the lack of postings in the last number of months. I haven’t stopped blogging, it is just that since I started working for RedMonk, the focus of my writing has changed and it is now more appropriate…

  • Friendfeed now on Twhirl

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    Tom Raftery
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    Friendfeed is a very cool site which aggregates all your rss feeds onto one page. This is cool because I contribute to 6 blogs and numerous other sites (Ma.gnolia, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, etc.) often automatically without ever visiting the sites in question! Now I have one place to go to see everything I have published.…

  • Donncha in Photo exhibition

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    Mallow Camera Club are holding an exhibition of photographs in Mallow Town Library for charity for the next three weeks and fellow blogger, photo blogger and WordPress lead developer, Donncha O’Caoimh will have one of his photos in the exhibition for sale – well done Donncha. Head along if you get a chance, it is…

  • Adblock – love it or hate it?

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    I wrote a post the other day talking about a blogger who stopped all Firefox users from visiting his site because they may have the Adblock plugin installed! Adblock is a plug-in for Firefox which allows you to view sites on the Internet but avoid seeing the ads they display. I am a big fan…

  • Site owner blocks Firefox users!

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    I saw this story on Techmeme this morning and I simply couldn’t believe it – but it is true! A guy called Danny Carlton has decided to block ALL Firefox users from his site because: The Mozilla Foundation and its Commercial arm, the Mozilla Corporation, has allowed and endorsed Ad Block Plus, a plug-in that…

  • Google Reader quick comments

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have now completely moved over to using Google Reader as my primary RSS reader. And it appears I am in good company! I started using it regularly while on holidays on my phone and I grew to like it – particularly the ability to Star and Share posts. Now I’m using it full-time, not…

  • BlogTalk 2008 to be held in Cork?

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    Tom Raftery
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    BlogTalk is a big international conference around the Social Media space. The last BlogTalk conference was in Vienna and featured speakers such as Danah Boyd, Suw Charman, and Matt Mullenweg. Thomas Burg, John Breslin and I are going to see if we can organise the next BlogTalk conference for Early March 2008 in Cork. All…

  • Full feeds lead to more page views

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    Tom Raftery
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    TechDirt has an article explaining why full feeds lead to more page views on your site than partial feeds. From the article: Full text feeds makes the reading process much easier. It means it’s that much more likely that someone reads the full piece and actually understands what’s being said — which makes it much,…