Tom Raftery, social media consultant, speaker, blogger and podcaster
Web2Ireland week is on in Dublin September 10th to 14th 2007.
Some of the events look very interesting -
Mashup University - Monday 10th/Tuesday 11th
Mashup Camp - Wednesday 12th/Thursday 13th
Paddy’s Valley Meet-up- Thursday 13th
DemoBar signup and FOWA Road trip - Thursday 13th
OpenCoffee - Friday 14th
The DemoBar looks particularly interesting - shame it is on the same day as the Building Your Business in Second Lifeevent in Cork.
Decisions, decisions!!!
I have started to use TiddlyWiki a lot recently. TiddlyWiki is a wiki platform which runs on your personal computer.
TiddlyWiki runs entirely out of html and so simply by visiting the TiddlyWiki site, you have downloaded the application! Chose File -> Save As… to name it and save it to an appropriate folder on your machine.
TiddlyWiki is blog-like in that new articles (Tiddlers) appear like posts in a blog. But it is unblog-like in that they are not displayed sequentially, but rather called by links or searches on the page.
It is very handy for notes-to-self - especially when you are offline. It can be hooked up to an online version and synched but I haven’t tried this yet.
The application was written by Jeremy Ruston who was taken on by BT as head of Open Source when they saw TiddlyWiki
I have now completely moved over to using Google Reader as my primary RSS reader. And it appears I am in good company!
I started using it regularly while on holidays on my phone and I grew to like it - particularly the ability to Star and Share posts.
Now I’m using it full-time, not only for these features, but also because I can use it on my Vaio, my MacBook Pro and my mobile phone (I still read and Share many items on the phone at home).
There is really cool trending software in Google Reader as well to help you figure out which blogs update regularly (with a one-click option to unsubscribe from ones which don’t), which blogs you Star and/or Share and it charts your reading activity by day (and by time of day).
The only thing which annoys me about it is that the list of unread items my phone displays differs from the list my computers display. I don’t know why this is, they are running from the same account, reading the same subscription list. Has anyone else noticed this?
If you’d like to follow the items I’m Sharing from my subscription list (i.e. follow what I am recommending) you can:
on the launch of Blognation Ireland earlier today.
Conor (from review aggregator LouderVoice) is the editor of Blognation Ireland and the publication promises:
to bring you all the latest news from the world of Web2.0 and mobile in Ireland
Subscribed.
Pat Phelan’s Cubic Telecom company has been selected to be one of the finalists in TechCrunch 20 for their Roam4free product. What is TechCrunch 20? From the site:
Twenty of the hottest new startups from around the world will announce and demo their products over a two day period at TechCrunch20. And they don’t pay a cent to do this. They will be selected to participate based on merit alone. In fact, we’re even offering a $50,000 cash award and lining up other in-kind services and awards from a generous group of corporate sponsors.
There were over 700 submissions from 26 countries so making it to the last 100 finalists was a considerable achievement. In fact, as far as I know Pat’s is the only Irish company in the final 100. Well done Pat - go for it boy!
I have spoken to Pat at length about their new Roam4free product set due out in the coming weeks and if they deliver half of what Pat is promising, it will set the mobile world on its head.
Loic Le Meur, France’s best known blogger and organiser of the Le Web conference interviewed me recently by Skype Video.
Previously I had panned Loic very publicly for the way he handled the Le Web conference last year. Loic starts this video by asking how he can do better this year. Soliciting people’s opinions is a great start Loic. Loic finished by asking me to be on the advisory board of this year’s Le Web. I’m now on the advisory board of the Le Web conference, the Web 2.0 Expo in Berin and I’m chair of the organising committeeit@cork annual Business in Technology conference. Phew!
For the majority of the interview (from 06:30 onwards) we talked about CIX, how to make data centres carbon neutral (while at the same time facilitating bringing more wind energy onto the national grid!) and the energy efficiency strategies we have designed into the CIX data centre.
I’m going to be printing out the screen grab from this video and using it to scare away the neighbours kids!
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