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  • Salim joins Yahoo!

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    I see Salim reporting that he has started a new job with Yahoo! Congrats Salim. Salim has been hired to head up Yahoo! Brickhouse – a new semi-autonomous Yahoo! R&D house which will create new apps for Yahoo! or to be spun off. Yahoo! Pipes was a Yahoo! Brickhouse project, for example. Salim has been…

  • Salim, the early bird…

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    The first of the speakers for the it@cork 2006 Business and Technology conference flew in last night. Salim Ismail, founder and CEO of Confabb (coincidentally a conference aggregation site!), is taking a couple of days before the conference starts to drive around beautiful West Cork and Kerry. Salim will be arriving back in Cork tomorrow…

  • Salim launches Confabb

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    My good buddy Salim has taken the covers off his latest venture Confabb and it has received a glowing review from TechCrunch, amongst others. Confabb is a conference aggregation and organisation site. It has a database of over 16,000 conferences and the ability to log in and add more or use the site to help…

  • The next great Cork Blogger's dinner

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    The plates are hardly dry from last night’s great blogger’s dinner and we have another spectacular one planned. The date is November 28th, time and venue are yet to be decided – mark it in your calendars now! November 28th is the eve of it@cork’s 2006 Business and Technology conference, so I made sure to…

  • Yahoo's open hackday

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    Yahoo’s first open Hackday is starting this coming Friday (29th) in Sunnyvale California. Upcoming.org has more details including details on how to register. Michael Arrington is MC’ing the event and good friend Salim Ismail is one of the judges. Apparently there is a surprise band showing up as well – no I can’t confirm it…

  • Sneak peek at edgeio!

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    I received an invite to take a sneak peek at edgeio this morning – edgeio is Michael Arrington of TechCrunch fame’s latest startup. The tagline for edgeio is “Listings from the edge” so the name comes from the word “edge” and “io” (input/output?). The idea behind edgeio is that people can advertise items for sale…

  • Launch of Structured Blogging

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    I see Jeff Clavier has a post about the launch of StructuredBlogging.org at the Syndicate conference. Structured blogging is a way to get more information on the web in a way that’s more usable. You can enter information in this form and it’ll get published on your blog like a normal entry, but it will…

  • Salim Ismail interview podcast II

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    As promised, here is the second interview with Salim Ismail – Salim is chairman & co-founder of PubSub and he very kindly agreed to come back on the show to follow-up on some of the things we talked about in the last podcast – if you haven’t listened to the first interview I did with…