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  • Contact details for Vint Cerf

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    Does anyone have any contact details for Vint Cerf? Vint is one of the pioneers of the Internet -he played a key role in leading the development of the TCP/IP protocols and in September, Google announced that it hired Cerf as “Chief Internet Evangelist” I’d love to do an interview with him – I realise…

  • 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 Podcast

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    As I mentioned previously, I interviewed Michael Arrington of TechCrunch last week as part of my ongoing series of recorded and podcast phone interviews. Michael really impressed me in the interview with his humour, his obvious intelligence and his humility. This is definitely one of the most stimulating interviews I have recorded yet – despite…

  • Steve Ruble's latest hacks – a suggestion

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    Steve Rubel is continuing his list of social media hacks – his latest is a list of 10 Wikipedia hacks. Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia which anyone can edit. Again, there are some interesting ones there – like the ajax search, the create a user account suggestion and the keyboard shortcuts. Steve, now that it…

  • Google Analytics graphs on a Mac

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    Google announced it was opening Google Analytics – a web stats program, for all to use free last week. Since it was launched Google Analytics has had problems – mostly related to the unprecedented demand for its use (unprecedented by Google, at any rate). One persistent issue, unrelated to popularity is that the Google Analytics…

  • Riya being bought by Microsoft?

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    Riya is a company I have mentioned previously – they have an incredible application which combines text and facial recognition with photo uploading, so that once you tell Riya who is who in your photo albums, it will recognise those people from then on out in any photos it sees! Riya also has tagging built…

  • The downside of free

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    Google announced that their web analysis product Urchin has been renamed Google Analytics and has been made free – however not everyone is happy with the result!