Tag: Web 2.0
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Busy couple of days
I have a busy couple of days ahead – expect light posting. – today I have a couple of CIX-related sales meetings – I have an it@cork pre-conference podcast with Eddie Hobbs to edit and publish – tomorrow I have several meetings in Dublin followed by the Netvisionary Awards night – Friday I have an…
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Your top Web 2.0 apps?
If we ignore the fact that the term Web 2.0 is controversial for all kinds of reasons and concentrate on the applications themselves, which Web 2.0 apps (using the broadest possible definition) do you use most? I use: my blog and podcast software all the time (they are run out of WordPress) my Flickr account…
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Plaxo – good idea, poorly executed?
I have a Plaxo account. I set it up last year to try it out. It seemed like a good idea, an online address book where I could store all my contacts info and have those data available whereever I had an Internet connection. The reality though is a little different. When I set up…
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Online presentation software review
There is plenty of talk around the online Word processor space and the online Spreadsheet space but you don’t hear as much about the online Presentation space (think online PowerPoint). This is one plank currently missing from Google’s online Office offering. The other CIX guys and I have a need to create a presentation and,…
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Le Web 3 wiki
Loic has put up a wiki for the attendees of Le Web 3. This was a very useful resource last year for finding out about good hotels in Paris (I found a cheap one with free wifi on the wiki) and for organising get togethers. Hopefully it will be as good again this year.
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Can Google Reader scale the Great Firewall of China?
Jeremiah Owyang is on a trip to China at the moment. He put up a post on his blog the other day saying he couldn’t access Robert Scoble’s blog from inside China – it seems to be blocked by the Great Firewall of China for some reason. I don’t know if this applies to all…
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Microsoft Office? Oh yeah, I remember that…
Via the Google Blogoscoped site comes news of Google’s integration of Google Spreadsheets and Docs into Gmail. Now, anyone receiving an Excel spreadsheet as an attachment in Gmail will be offered the option to open the Spreadsheet in Google Spreadsheets (see below). Similar functionality has yet to be added for Word documents but, no doubt,…
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Top 100 Irish blogs
Justin Mason has put together a list of the top 100 Irish blog sites by Technorati rank and by inbound links. Jason obviously put a huge effort into doing this and serious kudos to him for doing it. If it weren’t too difficult to do Justin, a monthly report of these numbers would be fascinating…