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My Web 2.0 Expo Keynote presentation on reducing our carbon footprint

Nov 9, 2007

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in carbon neutrality, Climate Change, energy, Global Warming, Web 2.0

I’m back in Cork after giving one of the keynote addresses at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin on Wednesday and speaking on a blogging panel at Microsoft’s TechEd in Barcelona on Thursday. I didn’t create any formal presentation for the blogging panel in Barcelona but for anyone who might be interested, I uploaded my…

Microsoft buys 1.6% of FaceBook for $240m

Oct 25, 2007

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Tom Raftery

in google, Microsoft, social networks

The New York Times is reporting this morning that Microsoft has bought a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240m, this values the company at $15bn. This values Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s 23 year old founder at $3bn and Accel Partners, the venture capital firm that invested $12.7 million in May 2005 now owns 11 percent of…

Gmail adds IMAP support

Oct 24, 2007

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Tom Raftery

in Email, Microsoft

I noticed that Chris Gilmer reported this morning that Gmail is now supporting IMAP for getting your mail as well as POP. I quickly logged into my GMail account and Lo!, there was the IMAP option – wohoo! Why is this a good thing? Well, previously if you wanted to read your Gmail in your…

Java Conference

Oct 23, 2007

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Tom Raftery

in Conference

I have just seen the line-up for IrishDev’s Java Conference and it is extremely impressive. The conference is on in Dublin on November 7th and has speakers from Apache, Sun, Iona, JBoss, Oracle, and Microsoft amongst others. Kudos to Fergal and the guys in IrishDev for organising what looks like will be a phenomenal day…

A sad day for Internet freedoms in China

Oct 18, 2007

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Tom Raftery

in Search Engines

If this were any other country you wouldn’t believe it but the Great Firewall of China has started re-directing traffic from the three major search engines (Yahoo!, Live.com and Google) to the Chinese owned search engine Baidu.com! Other sites such as YouTube.com and Google’s BlogSearch are reportedly also being re-directed. China has previously blocked sites…

Are Microsoft trying to sucker the competition?

Sep 25, 2007

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Tom Raftery

in Microsoft, social networks

The Wall Street Journal has a piece today claiming that Microsoft are thinking of investing in FaceBook. TechMeme is buzzing with the news. According to the WSJ article Microsoft could purchase a stake of up to 5% in the closely held startup, at a cost in the range of $300 million to $500 million This…

Microsoft will Open Source Windows (or die!)

Sep 25, 2007

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Tom Raftery

in Linux, Microsoft, Open Source, Vista, Windows

I have said on a number of occasions that Microsoft should Open Source their Windows Operating System (and their Internet Explorer). However, it bears repeating. I realise it is unlikely to happen in the near term but, I firmly believe it will happen in the not-too-distant future (when Microsoft realises that they can’t compete with…

Had a ball at BarCamp Galway

Sep 24, 2007

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Tom Raftery

in barcamp, Microsoft

I went to BarCamp Galway over the weekend. I arrived a bit late because I drove up from Cork on Saturday morning and then spent around 30 minutes wandering around NUIG looking for the DERI institute before I realised it is off-campus! I eventually made it at 11 – just in time for coffee and…

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