Google recently launched their OpenSocial product, aiming to bring together APIs to build applications which are cross social network compatible. The idea seems great, I expected or hoped for the majority of social networks to follow suit, but Facebook have opened up their Platform Standards in competition. Perhaps Microsoft’s stake in the Platform has had [...]

It wasn’t that long ago when I took part in a W3C Advisor Committee debate regarding the use of WWW in Web site addresses.
During our debate, Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the Web) made a brilliant observation which was totally marketing driven and not at all technical.
Tim Berners-Lee’s response
People are used to seeing WWW on business [...]

When I received an email entitled ‘2008 Predictions’ from a contributor to the Mobile Monday London forum, I didn’t for a second think about predictions. All I could think about was ‘huh, can we just fix some of the crap we’ve got first’.
I’m a believer in looking forward and I’d like to think I’ve got [...]

Technorati has fixed a bug which will impact the ranking of the top 100 blogs. This means it’s likely to impact the ranking of your blog if you have one.
According to Technorati
Over the holiday break we found and fixed a bug that inflated authority counts for certain blogs. The blogs affected were those on domains [...]

I published a post before Christmas expressing my interest to setup a new Industry Association to represent the interests of the digital sector in Ireland.
I was going to propose we call the Association ‘Irish Digital Media Association’ (IDMA). But I quickly realised it wouldn’t work for a very simple, non-technical reason. The acronym would conflict [...]

Aido and I will be hitting Cork on Monday 7th January at around 6pm. Please let us know if you’d like to meet up for dinner. Feel free to leave suggestions for a venue.
Thanks to Damien for suggesting the Clarion hotel and thanks to Pat for booking it (remember Pat, 20 quid budget).
We’ll be [...]

After the heated discussion about Facebook dumping Robert Scoble after he tried to harvest his contacts using a script, I thought it was time for some light hearted stuff. Check out the video
Thanks to Rebecca Caroe for the link.