WTF 2.0

24Oct07

I’ve never been particularly comfortable with the Web 2.0 label that seems to get applied to everything these days. It’s probably one of the most overused and misapplied marketing labels I’ve ever come across in my experience in the software industry. At least during the dot-com boom you knew what people were [...]

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Hell Hath No Fury…

03Oct07

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The Irish blogosphere1 has been abuzz for the last couple of days with the latest example of how potentially powerful bloggers have become in Ireland, how careful – and informed – companies have to be to avoid running into serious PR trouble and how they should really learn to react in [...]

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Buy Our Anti-Skin Failure Elixir Before It’s Too Late!

23Apr07

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Olvier Ansaldi beat me to the punch1 on a small piece that appeared in this morning’s edition of the free Dublin newspaper Metro2:
Four in every five blogs on popular websites contain potentially offensive content, such as pornography, new research claims. Computer software firm ScanSafe, which commissioned the report [...]
You know, I’m [...]

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BarCamp Dublin Report

22Apr07

BarCamp Dublin took place yesterday. It was my first BarCamp but certainly won’t be my last. It was a lot of fun and there was a great turnout. The venue in the Digital Exchange building, part of the Digital Hub in Dublin, was a good one but there were persistent internet connectivity problems throughout the [...]

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Microsoft iPod Box

03Mar06

As I mentioned in an earlier posting, the iPod box is an example of Apple’s ability to produce really nice stuff. The difference in style between Microsoft and Apple seems to be pretty fundamental (see this comparison between the presentation style of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs for example). Now someone has produced [...]

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