Last.fm to charge for Radio

27Mar09

Last.fm fans will be disappointed to hear that the site plans on making its streaming Last.fm radio service subscription only to listeners outside the UK, US and Germany. So that would include us then.

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Tags: fees, Germany, last.fm, last.fm radio, spotify, streaming, subscriber, UK, USA

Proof that people can still surprise/disgust me

22Mar09

I have never been a fan of Jade Goody. The recent media attention surrounding her illness was distasteful at best, regardless of whether she courted it or not. But this type of reaction is not only over the top, but if you check out the source code of the page, is just plain nasty.

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Tags: Jade Goody

The best job ever. EV-ER

10Mar09

Vote for George! Maybe he’ll invite us all over one he gets the job as caretaker of the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef. At 17,000+ people voting for him, I doubt it, but we can dream.

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Tags: caretaker, george, Great Barrier Reef, Islands, vote

Blackout Ireland: the campaign continues

06Mar09

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

Net Visionary Awards 2009

23Feb09

The nominations for the Net Visionary awards are now open. Nominations close on March 27th and voting will open in April.

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Tags: Net Visionary

Fake Twitter followers? Surely not

18Feb09

Brooks Bayne has started a bit of a spat on the internet by speculating about fake twitter followers.

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Tags: brooks bayne, guardiantech, spam, twitter

Facebook creates etiquette minefield

15Feb09

It used to be getting dumped by a text was bad enough. The faceless, can’t even be bothered with a phone call kind of brush off that would take up more than 30 seconds of your time.

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Tags: Chris Brown, Facebook, Heather Swan, Michael Chopra, Rihanna, social networking

Motorists get more than they bargained for

12Feb09

It seems as though a fine isn’t the only thing people have to worry about when they get a parking ticket – there might be a computer virus on the way too.

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Tags: data loss, malware, scams, viruses

Safer Internet Day ’09

10Feb09

Released to coincide with Safer Internet Day, this Microsoft study says a fifth of Irish teens have experienced bullying of some sort online, most commonly over instant messaging, while 55 per cent have unrestricted access to the internet.

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Tags: bullying, instant messaging, microsoft, Safer Internet Day, social networking