Thursday, November 15, 2007 Alexia has declared her disappointment in Science Week‘s carrot-dangling approach to spread awareness of science by encouraging Irish bloggers to write about inventions. Let me just preface this by saying: I like carrots. I would like to win a free Nintendo Wii, I am just a bit too lazy to think of an invention that [...]
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 Apologies to anyone who’s comment hasn’t made it onto this site in recent months. I’ve spotted a few false positives in my Akismet spam list lately, which makes me wonder how many I’ve missed in the past (because I usually just ‘delete all’). The inability to sort by “spamminess”, as Techcrunch puts it, is a [...]
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 Congrats to Conor and LouderVoice on making the final list of 30 competitors for the 2007 LeWeb3 Start-up Competition. Looks like it could be a great conference too, some really interesting sessions. It is nice to see the organisers taking heed of the importance of gaming in the future of the internet – this is [...]
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 I was pretty surprised when I saw the lights go off on my Rackspace servers in the DFW data center, in Dallas. The outage was covered by Laughing Squid, and made it onto a lot of big tech news sites such as TechCrunch, GigaOm, Valleywag, and O’Reilly Radar. 37 Signals and other well known web [...]
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No matter how hard I try to describe Berlin, only one word comes to mind – it is very very “German”. It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly what I love about the place. Just like Weisswurst and pretzels, the city is numbingly bland on first impressions, until you discover the sachet of honey mustard. The wide [...]
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Thursday, November 8, 2007 I’m seeing some referrals from this LiveJournal post by a member of the team behind Librarything regarding Shelfari’s unethical spamming strategy. When I wrote about Shelfari’s “confusing and deceptive” sign-up process last week, I did consider at the time that I was over-reacting, but now I see what a widespread problem Shelfari has caused. The [...]
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Who decided that it was OK to send a spammy mass-invitation to everyone in your addressbook by default? Allowing some web app to access my private email account is an act of trust, and it is being abused by every site that tries to dupe me into spamming my contacts. Anyone who is thinking “it’s [...]
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I’ve signed up for Mashup Camp, 11-12 November in Dublin. At first I couldn’t believe that this was a tech conference, because the website was so bad. I have no problem with the minimalist style of websites preferred by university professors and the like, but you’d never expect to see anything like this anywhere near [...]
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I changed the theme a few times over the past couple of weeks. Never realised that the last one I had actually didn’t work in Internet Explorer, which probably explains why my site traffic has plummeted. I was alerted to the fact that something was wrong when I stopped getting my usual €0.05 per day [...]
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Was over in London for the FOWA. I’ve been to London a few times in the past couple of years, but still can’t get over what an insanely expensive city that is. Breakfast in the hotel, for a basic fry: £21! That’s €30 or $43. Future of Web Apps conference was on in the Docklands, [...]
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