Tag: conversations

  • Blame it on the Twitter!

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    I have been very quiet on this blog for the last few weeks – apologies for that but I can’t promise on the pace returning to the two or three posts a day I was averaging at times last year. Why? I have been spending a lot of time on the micro-blogging site, Twitter. Twitter…

  • Startup 2.0

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    Startup 2.0 concluded last night with the awards followed by good food, great conversations and a drink or two (ahem!). If you haven’t already heard, the results were: 1st Sclipo 2nd 5min 3rd Properazzi and joint 4th placed were Trivop and 11870.com. All the finalists had fantastic offerings and choosing amongst them would have given…

  • Welcome Eoin

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    Noted Trinity law lecturer and sometime radio pundit on all things legal, Eoin O’Dell has taken the wrappings off his blog finally! Eoin has been blogging on a private blog for the last several months now but on Friday Eoin took the username and password off his blog and now everyone can read his thoughts…

  • Lie detector software for Skype?

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    The BBC is reporting that there will very shortly be a plugin for Skype which acts as a lie detector by analysing: audio streams over a Skype call in real time and illustrates the stress levels of the other person Most of my PodLeaders podcasts are recorded Skype conversations – this could add a whole…

  • IT@Cork Web 2.0 conference talks podcast

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    I finally got around to putting up the talks from the IT@Cork Web 2.0 Conference! Shel Israel led off the talks at the IT@Cork Web 2.0 conference with a great introduction to blogs and social media – drawing very much on his experience co-authoring a book on business blogging called Naked Conversations called Naked Conversations…