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Sky News Live at Five team starts a blog with bugs!

Oct 24, 2005

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The Sky News Live at Five program has started a blog – welcome to the world of blogs Jeremy and the Live at Five team. However, the blog could stand some improvements (from a technical perspective) – for instance: (the site doesn’t conform to web standards, it doesn’t allow trackbacks or pingbacks, it doesn’t allow…

Sphere – a new blog search engine – reviewed

Oct 15, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Business blogging, Search Engines, Technology

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has written a review of Sphere – a new blog search engine which, he says quite frankly blows everything, and I mean everything, Iâ€™ve seen out of the water in terms of relevance (and, by the way, designâ€¦Adaptive Path was involved). Sphere’s search tackles the thorny issue of relevance by having…

Ads for regulars?

Oct 12, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Business blogging, Technology

Dave wrote a thought-provoking post on online advertising and blogs following on from mine and Damien’s posts on the topic. Dave’s idea is not to display ads to regular visitors to your site: What Iâ€™d do personally is to have a cookie on my site so that repeat visitors didnâ€™t get ads. People who click…

19% of small businesses using blogs?

Oct 12, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Business blogging, Technology

BL Ochman reported today that 19% of small and medium businesses are using blogs as marketing tools: Nineteen percent of small and medium sized businesses report that they are using blogs as marketing tools. That’s according to Interland’s 2005 Small and Medium-sized Business Barometer. Given that the majority of the population still doesn’t know a…

Irish Blog Awards?

Oct 10, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Technology

Damien has posted a suggestion on his blog that there should be an Irish Blogs and Podcasts Awards and he followed it up with a post on Boards.ie so that there could be a discussion about it (Damien’s comments are still broken!). Do I think this is a good idea? Potentially! If the idea is…

What exactly is RSS?

Oct 9, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Business blogging, IT@Cork, RSS, Search Engines, Technology

Have you heard about RSS and wondered what exactly it is? Well in technospeak RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it is a family of XML file formats for web syndication. To put it more simply, the technology behind RSS allows internet users to subscribe to websites that have provided RSS feeds so that…

Cnet names its top 100 blogs

Oct 7, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Technology

Cnet today published its list of the top 100 blogs today – as expected Tom Raftery’s IT Views was amongst the top 100 – not! The list names all the usual suspects: Scoble, Engadget, Schneier on Security, et al. Some of the blogs listed, I hadn’t heard of before like TVOver.net (an IPTV and TV…

Blog for sale – apply within!

Oct 7, 2005

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Tom Raftery

in Blogging, Business blogging, Technology

I see on Dave Winer’s blog that he has confirmed the rumour that he sold Weblogs.com to Versign – he neglected to say how much for! The rumour mill is putting a figure of ~$5m on it. Couple that with the news that AOL are buying Weblobsinc.com for somewhere between $25-$40m, and the news of…

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