Tag: web_apps
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See you at the IIA Congress?
I’m off to the IIA Congress tomorrow – I’m looking forward to hearing some of the talks (esp. Tom Murphy‘s talk on business blogging) and meeting up with as many of you as attend. I see Michele is going and Ed has already told me he’ll be there too. I’ll have my mobile with me…
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Charles Handy and Robert Scoble headline IT@Cork Annual Conference
Some of the speakers for this year’s IT@Cork Annual Conference have been announced today. The main headliners are Robert Scoble and Charles Handy – Robert will be a big draw for anyone with an interest in technology while Charles will be a major draw for anyone with an interest in business management. Fortunately the two…
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Yahoo! launches Instant Search
I have written recently about Yahoo!’s extremely shady business practices (working with the Chinese government to help jail journalists, building spyware into their IM client, and funding spyware developers) but today they launched an innovative search recently called Yahoo! Instant Search which appears to be quite good! Built with AJAX – the search box attempts…
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More about Google Blog Search
An important feature of Google’s new Blog Search to be aware of is, as Niall Kennedy and Damien Mulley have noted, it is not really a Blog Search – it is a Feed Search. This may sound like semantics but there is an important distinction – many bloggers only publish summaries of their posts in…
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Google launches flawed blog search
Google’s long anticipated blog search was launched overnight (I guess that means they’re not buying Technorati then Tom!). Google have made a faq about their blog search available where they say: There are a few different ways you can get to Blog Search: * blogsearch.google.com (Google-style interface) * search.blogger.com (Blogger-style interface) * The Blogger Dashboard…
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Irish bloggers dinner location
I am organising a bloggers dinner with Robert Scoble for the night of November 30th. Robert will be in town for the IT@Cork Annual Conference. Several people have asked me to ensure that the dinner is in a nice venue! I had originally thought that having it in the Rochestown Park would be simplest as…
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Memeorandum's hopelessly US-centric site
Robert Scoble wrote an article overnight in praise of Memeorandum’s splitting itself into two sites. Memeorandum, in case you haven’t come across it, aggregates news from the blogosphere by topic and presents it in the form of a news site – very similar to Google News in concept but with its focus on the blogosphere…
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Yahoo! now employing Spyware tactics!
I read with interest a post on Angsuman’s site this morning that Yahoo!’s new Instant Messanger application, when installed using the default settings on your system, will change your systems settings and install various applications on your hard drive unasked. A News.com article on the new release lists the changes: By accepting Yahoo’s “typical” installation…