I’m getting really tired of hearing about Irish initiatives that aren’t inclusive. What’s worse, are initiatives that are backed by tax payers money and EU funding that appear to be organised behind closed doors between people who obviously play golf together and live in Dublin 4. Developed by Enterprise Ireland in association with the Irish [...]

I was inspired to write this post after reading about a recent spam attack by Monster. In fact, it wasn’t the attack that annoyed me, it was the response given by John Burns, Monster’s Business Development Manager in Ireland. John Burns’ response to a disgruntled recipient should have been an apology. Instead, he stupidly wrote [...]

[Update] Thanks to Gerry Hanratty I can see that Mike Arrington agrees with my definition of a blog. I was first prompted to write this post when one of Segala’s Certified Partners directed me to their ‘blog’. I can’t remember why, I think it was regarding the design and it was asking us to review [...]

Looks like Hosting365 customer and technical support isn’t alone at the bottom of the pit. Technorati is probably the worst I’ve seen yet. Actually that’s not true, it’s the second worst as nobody could be as bad as Hosting365. Long story short; I’ve lost my login details to Technorati. I tried to have them emailed [...]

I’m very sorry for inflicting Robert Loch upon you like this. I should have given prior warning. The picture was taken on our way back to the UK after Curry 2.0, where Rob gave his pitch about a new idea called Jokaoke (a bit like karaoke but for people who really can’t sing, rather than [...]

Though I tend to avoid Flash for several reasons, there is no doubt that this is one of the best Web technology I have seen, perhaps the only technology of it’s class. How can you ignore that when 70% of Web 2.0 users are serious fans of those video sharing sites, where Flash runs the [...]

There’s a buzz around the European startup community at present. Well, actually, most of it seems to be happening in London, where the passion and enthusiasm is most apparent and collaboration is easier to attain. That’s probably because it’s a big city with lots of people and all speaking the same language with no water [...]