Monthly Archives: May 2008

Web 2.0 Toolset presentation

I gave a talk yesterday for the members of it@cork titled “The Web 2.0 Toolset – a business focussed overview” There were around 70 people in attendance and feedback afterwards was very positive. Here is a copy of the presentation … Continue reading

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Happy birthday Enrique

It was Enrique’s 2nd birthday yesterday. We are going out for lunch today with my Dad to celebrate. Time flies, eh?

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I’m joining RedMonk!

I have been working as a Social Media consultant in Ireland for around four years now and director of the Cork Internet eXchange data center for the last two years. However with my imminent move to Spain in July, I … Continue reading

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Worldwide Telescope launches half-baked!

Microsoft launched their much-hyped WorldWide Telescope this morning. The application has a lot of promise as an educational tool, in that it can make astronomy fun and engaging. First off, there is no Mac version. Boo! For this reason alone, … Continue reading

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OpenOffice 3.0 Beta launched

OpenOffice, the free opensource office suite, released OpenOffice 3.0 Beta yesterday. This latest release now runs on Mac OS X without requiring X11 to be running as well. And there are versions for Windows and Linux obviously. There are a … Continue reading

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Twitterfone launches

Twitterfone launched last night to a spectacular response. Mike Arrington gave it a glowing report on TechCrunch and the feedback has been very positive. What does Twitterfone do? Not much! It does one thing and it does it well. It … Continue reading

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