Tag: Technology

  • Selling from the edge of the Long Tail

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    I am a big fan of Chris Anderson’s book The Long Tail (so much so that I recently emailed Chris to ask if there was a pdf copy of the book available for sale ‘cos I am constantly lending my hard copy to people! – there isn’t). One of the principles of The Long Tail…

  • Yahoo! releases Pipes – online programming for dummies!

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    Yahoo! released Yahoo! Pipes today to almost universal acclaim! What is Pipes? According to Yahoo!’s Jeremy Zawodny it is: a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment. The name of the service pays tribute to Unix pipes, which let programmers do astonishingly clever things by…

  • BarCamp Cork 2007

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    I spoke to the owners of the National Software Centre the other day and they said they’d be delighted to host a BarCamp there. I reckon sometime in May would be an appropriate timescale for the next one. What do you think?

  • Google PowerPoint in the works

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    I mentioned Google’s lack of an online Presentation app (i.e. a browser-based PowerPoint) previously. Well, according to TechCrunch today, it looks as if they are addressing that gap in their offerings. With the addition of online presentation software, Google becomes a serious player in the Office software space. Key advantages of Google’s Office software offering…

  • Climate change

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    Not really tech-related I know, but I was appalled over the weekend when I read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change‘s (IPCC) summary report (pdf) on climate change. The summary report is a 21 page document summarising a four volume report yet to be released. It is the work of over 1200 scientific authors and…

  • Congrats Walter

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    Congrats to Walter Higgins of sxoop for getting another positive review for his pxn8 (an online photo editing app) on TechCrunch today. The TechCrunch article is a review of six online photo editors and of pxn8 TechCrunch says: PXN8 is the best of the Ajax based editors (and the best overall until Picnik launched) and…

  • Flickr go-slow?

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    I’m uploading a couple of images to my Flickr account right now and it is like wading through treacle – they are going really slowly. I’m not sure if there is an issue with my broadband provider of if Flickr is having problems/throttling upload speeds. Anyone else noticed this?

  • The sad demise of Bifsniff cartoons – sniff!

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    I was very sad to read that Bifsniff will no longer be releasing their weekly cartoons – at least not for the foreseeable future: This does mean that the cartoons are now officially on hold for the time being – possibly forever. I regularly use their cartoons in my presentations and I have had their…