#“Running a business in the Cloud with Amazon Web Services #AWS” These are the slides from a talk I gave back in March to the UCC SME Cloud Incubator Workshop. It goes through all the details of our use of Amazon Web Services with some mentions of other cloud providers too. Running a business in the Cloud with AWS from Conor O'Neill »
#“Google using Google+ to up-sell Google Apps” I saw this in the control panel for one of my Google Apps for Your Domain accounts today. The value-add for paid accounts on Google Apps has always been very poor. $50 per user for a few tweaks most people don’t need. This could change things, particularly for those who want to use Google+ as a replacement for Yammer. »
#“The Greatest Electronic Music Video of All Time?” I think so. Old Spice Muscle Music from Terry Crews on Vimeo. »
#“Nerdy Derby - Looks like a blast” The Nerdy Derby is a no-rules* miniature car building and racing competition inspired by the Cub Scouts' Pinewood Derby. With a larger, more undulating track and no restrictions on the size of the cars or materials participants can use, the Nerdy Derby rewards creativity, cleverness and ingenuity. The first-ever Nerdy Derby will take place at World Maker Faire New York on September 29th and 30th at the New York Hall of Science in Queens. »
#“My mind is blown - Met Eireann\u0092s radar image converted to #OpenData” Brendan Cunningham has just left the most exciting comment this blog has ever received. He has thrown some serious smarts at the Met Eireann radar image of rain and converted in to actual numbers you can use! That vector data with rainfall values is now up on Google Fusion Tablesand is updated every 15 minutes so now it can be integrated with GIS and other location based services. »
#“In honour of Peter Cook, Nike announces new line of running clothing - Clivestrong” »
#“Sib\u00e9al, Fionn and S\u00edofra use littleBits for the first time” Last night, just before bedtime, I handed over littleBits to our three younger kids. They had never seen or used it before and I wanted to gauge their reaction to it. Overall they loved it and it was the first thing Fionn looked for when he got up this morning. Sibal also snuk off with it for a while on her own last night after the others had gone to bed. »
#“Amazon Glacier looks ideal for cheaper long-term storage/backup” Amazon just announced Glacier: Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup. In order to keep costs low, Amazon Glacier is optimized for data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable. With Amazon Glacier, customers can reliably store large or small amounts of data for as little as $0. »
#“Comic Sans Will Get You Thrown Off Twitter” I just used the Twitter API to get my recent Tweets. I took one of those tweets and rendered it in Comic Sans: From now on, this breaks Twitter’s Guidelines, Requirements. I know you don’t care, but remember, the next time you Tweet, they own it, not you. »
#“First Hands-On with littleBits. Yes I’m grinning a lot.” The lovely lovely people in Sugru sent me a littleBits kit and a great book yesterday. I have been intrigued by littleBits since I saw discovered it via the Adafruit site a while back. Soon afterwards they raised bunch of money and I was pleased to see Ireland’s own PCH involved in the production. If you are not familiar with littleBits, it’s a beautifully simple way of learning about electronics using parts which just snap together using magnets. »