Facebook Places.. BOO..

I’m sure I’ll be turning it off soon, but Boooo… hurry up!

iTunes in the cloud is more ambitious than we think

There is lots of chatter about on the new data centre that Apple is building – a data centre to end all data centres. A data centre with 500,000 square feet. At that footage, you’re talking almost seven times the size of a soccer pitch. Besides the sheer size of the facility, the next thing [...]

On scaling for innovation

Photo owned by Joost J. Bakker IJmuiden (cc) A few weeks ago, Andy Groove wrote an opinion piece for Bloomberg entitled ‘How to Make an American Job Before It’s Too Late’. It’s an important piece not just for the America, but also for Ireland. Grove, ever the engineer, takes a deep breath and a pragmatic [...]

Facebook kill custom landing pages for small page owners [Updated!]

Update: Facebook appear to be backing down and have restored original settings of setting landing tabs for pages. Cue saving face while they figure out how to assess to situation? News filtered out this morning that Facebook had withdrawn the rights of some Facebook Page owners to create default landing tabs for their pages, so [...]

Reconditioned iconography

It doesn’t matter how technologically advanced we become, iconography is important. Like how the BBC homepage has gotten a facelift recently (went live yesterday), but the clock has returned albeit with new HTML 5 bits under the hood. When we launched the Beta Homepage we received feedback from a number of you who missed the [...]

Vodafone announces iPad plans in May, but not for us..

Vodafone announced yesterday that it will come out with price plans for iPad at the end of next month but just for the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain. Another case of Ireland always playing the bridesmaid, and never the bride. Does this point to O2 claiming iPad exclusivity come launch in May? Or perhaps a [...]

Irish Blog Awards 2010

Just a brief note to say that last weekend’s Irish Blog Awards were really enjoyable.I enjoy the prep and buildup as much as the show. Weird, I know. Every single one of the winners deserved their awards. I especially enjoyed seeing Pat, Jim, Redmum and Suzy win. Best speech of the night award goes to [...]

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