Tag: cork

  • We are outta here!

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    Image via Wikipedia I mentioned previously that we are emigrating to Spain. I booked the one-way tickets for our flight to Spain yesterday. We are leaving Cork on the 21st of June, flying via Dublin, to Malaga on Sunday 22nd and driving from there to Seville. It has taken a while to get things organised…

  • Web 2.0 Toolset presentation

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    I gave a talk yesterday for the members of it@cork titled “The Web 2.0 Toolset – a business focussed overview” There were around 70 people in attendance and feedback afterwards was very positive. Here is a copy of the presentation I gave. I hope to have a video of the presentation live by tomorrow. http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=itcorkweb20-1211923292108227-9…

  • I'm joining RedMonk!

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    I have been working as a Social Media consultant in Ireland for around four years now and director of the Cork Internet eXchange data center for the last two years. However with my imminent move to Spain in July, I will lose 90% of the revenue from these streams. I can’t reproduce those streams in…

  • Psst! You wanna buy a data center?

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    Well, ok not an entire data center but my share of the CIX data center. As I have mentioned before, I am moving to Spain in July. When I move, I will no longer be able to make a meaningful contribution to the further development of CIX and in that scenario it would not be…

  • Enterprise wikis reviewed

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    Tom Raftery
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    Long story short, PBWiki is yer only man. Why? I was chair of the it@cork Conference organising committee last year. The committee is made up of volunteers who are all busy with their day-to-day jobs so getting times to meet which suit everyone is always challenging. To help with the organisation I rolled out a…

  • Live Maps Bird's Eye now includes (some) Irish towns

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    Via Clare Dillon the Virtual Earth blog and Martha Rotter on Twitter I spotted that Microsoft’s Live Maps now includes images of Cork, Galway, Carlow, Limerick, Navan & Wexford – cool! The Bird’s Eye button becomes active when you are over an area that Microsoft has detailed aerial imagery of. The image below is of…

  • Hans Rosling's talk at the 2007 it@cork conference

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    Hans Rosling gave the opening address at the 2007 it@cork Technology in Business Conference. His talk was incredibly eye opening as the Trendalyzer software he developed shows how the world is “double inversely logarithmically unjust”. Watch and enjoy!

  • Reducing your Costs and your Carbon Footprint – presentation

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    I gave a talk at the it@cork Green IT event yesterday entitled “Reducing your Costs and your Carbon Footprint”. The talk goes into some detail on how Cork Internet eXchange, the cork-based data centre I am a director of, achieves hyper energy efficiency. http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=reducing-your-costs-and-your-carbon-footprint-1204720215720098-2 | View | Upload your own It is also worth noting…