Tag: web_2.0

  • Any questions for Sam Sethi?

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    Sam Sethi is an entrepreneur, technologist (entrepologist) and consultant. Sam has worked in the IT industry for over 15 years for companies like Microsoft (strategy director in MSN UK ), Netscape, Gateway Computers and CMGi, in a variety of senior technical and marketing roles. Most recently Sam has been charged with setting up TechCrunch UK.…

  • Rick and Shel want to meet you!

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    I received an email yesterday from Shel Israel regarding his forthcoming road trip to Europe with Rick Segal. Shel asked me who he should meet in Ireland. I said, “why don’t I post it on my blog?” “Great!” he said. So, Shel and Rick are looking for people with great ideas who can help us…

  • Gmail accounts preferred by Google Spreadsheet

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    Google launched an online spreadsheet application earlier today. To overcome the problems experienced with previous launches, they are limiting the numbers of people who can access it by asking people to go through a signup process. I signed up for a Google Spreadsheet account this afternoon and I received one already. Interestingly, I signed up…

  • If you love your OPML, set it free!

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    Dave Winer has launched a new site called Share your OPML – Mike Arrington and Steve Rubel and quick off the blocks with early reviews. The site is straightforward enough – you register and you upload your OPML file – this is generally an export of the feeds you are subscribed to in your feed…

  • Enterprise Ireland Web 2.0 event

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    I’m off to hear Marc Canter, Jeff Clavier, Judy Gibbons, et al speak at the Enterprise Ireland Web 2.0 event tomorrow (Thursday Apr 27th) – if you are going to be there, please introduce yourself, I’d hate to be the one sat in the corner with no friends!!!

  • Anyone have contact details for Tim O'Reilly?

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    I am organising a Web 2.0 mini-conference for IT@Cork for early June of this year. I have some good speakers lined up but I’d love to get Tim O’Reilly along to speak since he wrote a seminal piece on Web 2.0. Also, the fact that Tim is from Cork originally and this is an IT@Cork…

  • "Thank you for taking the trouble to complain"

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    One of the reasons why Robert Scoble is liked and respected is that he puts his hands up when someone highlights a problem with some aspect of Microsoft or its products. If someone says “Microsoft sucks” – he doesn’t say “No it doesn’t”, he says “Why do you think that, and what can we do…

  • Web 2.0 to suffer from United States Department of Justice request?

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    I see Xeni Jardin over at Boing Boing has posted an article on how the US Department of Justice have requested a weeks worth of search data from the major US search engines. Seemingly Yahoo, AOL, and MSN simply handed over the data without any question. Google however held out and is now being taken…