Archive for March, 2009
Oi. You. Quit it.
Mistakes happen. Every now and again we all get our email addresses wrong. But a polite request to the person who keeps giving out my gmail address as theirs: please stop. In the past few months I have had family emails, friends updating me about hen parties I’m not actually going to and, once, some […]
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Tags: Email
It must be tough being Google. I mean, you try to throw out some new services, out of the goodness of your own heart, and there are people standing by waiting to stomp all over your efforts with talk of “privacy”.
Filed under: Web 2.0 | 1 Comment
Tags: google, google maps, images, kildare, latitude, mapping, privacy, street view
Call me a cynic, but when I see another company boasting of its “eco friendly” products, I can’t help but smile. Environmentally friendly technology is a growing business these days. With consumers seeking to cut bills and politicians pushing the carbon emissions agenda, everyone wants in.
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Tags: Bravia, eco, environmentally friendly, flatscreen, green tech, LCD, Sony, TV, WE5
Internet in time-wasting shocker
Another week, another survey on how the internet is wasting time for Irish employers. This one, by Peninsula Ireland, says Irish employees are wasting two hours and 20 minutes a day on personal internet use [Irish Times]. Now, does anyone else suspect some fudging of the truth was going on here?
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Tags: Email, Peninsula, time wasting, work
Europe relaxes monitoring on MS
Microsoft is getting a bit of breathing space, it seems, with the news that the European Commission is backing off on its surveillance of the tech giant.
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Tags: anti trust, European Commission, microsoft, monitoring
So Blackout Ireland has started, and there’s a few blacked out avatars on Facebook and Twitter. I’ve yet to see how many people wrote to their ISPs and TDs to lodge their objections. Danny O’Brien writes about it in todays Irish Times.
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Tags: blackout ireland, Eircom, Irms, three strikes
Twitter loses a follower
After his no-show last week for the US v Ireland at the National Stadium, the only clues to Kenny Egan’s whereabouts were on Twitter. @kennyegan was leaving us cryptic clues about his whereabouts through pictures and posts that seemed to suggest he was in New York. But @kennyegan is no more.
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Tags: @kennyegan, boxer, kenny egan, new york, twitter, US
Random Gmail ads
I love the different web clips that Google sticks into my Gmail account. Every so often there’s something interesting. Sometimes they are just bizarre. Like today’s “gem”. “Inbox [2] Unread – http://www.secretlovemsg.com – There are secret messages waiting for you. Read them here €10/wk” Oh look, internet strangers are sending me secret messages. I’ll just […]
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Tags: gmail, recession, web advertising
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