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#“Webcast Recording of "What’s Next for App Inventor?"” via event.on24.com Well worth a listen if you are interested in future of App Inventor. The news is very good indeed. »

#“Yahoo Kills Maps and OpenSources Sled/Postmile” I gave up on Yahoo a long long time ago. The ultimate bungee VP company that came up with so many great products and ideas but followed through on almost none of them. I wouldn't touch any new Yahoo web-app with a long shitty stick because I know it'll be canned 12 months later. The death of Yahoo Maps, once the absolute industry leader, is a case study in how Yahoo screws up. »

#“Physicist cuts plane boarding time in half - Except in Ireland” "This savings could be as much as $110,000,000 annually per carrier--well over a billion dollars for the industry--and likely could be more given the parallel nature of the boarding process," Steffen writes in a recent follow-up paper. "Indeed, a test with a longer aircraft may show surprising results in this regard." via news.cnet.com As anyone who travels regularly know, 97% of Irish people are genetically incapable of boarding a plane quickly, efficiently or correctly. »

#“Any Irish Incubators Signed-Up with Rackspace Startup Programme @scobleizer e.g. @ndrc_i2i ?” Incubators/Accelerators Established or new on the scene? If you are currently affiliated with an incubator or accelerator, we want to hear from you. See how we can help startups like yours with up to $2,000 in Rackspace cloud credit per month for up to a 12-month period applicable to Rackspace cloud services. Use the form and tell us all about your startup and incubator / accelerator experience today. »

#“Our replacement for Sky TV cost \u008099. Ariva 120. No monthly fees!” So the kids complained about the removal of Sky. A lot. There are only so many Charlie and Lola episodes you can watch on YouTube, particularly the ones in Finnish. The intention was to get that very highly recommended Humax Freesat box on Amazon but it's bloody pricey and we weren't sure we needed all of the features. Then the very kind @gpelly on Twitter mentioned the hugely impressive Ferguson Ariva 120 Combo. »

#“RTE Player at 1080p is Just Magical” All those pixels.On a serious note, what resolution are they running? 240p? It's laughable. »

#“VS Day - Victory Over Sky Day. Free at last etc etc yadda yadda” After our ongoing argument over the telephone connection with Sky TV, they doubled the multi-room charge, so we cancelled the lot in early August.Today the cancellation finally kicked in.The kids are in shock. We had planned to get a Freesat box but we're actually going to play it by ear and get nothing for a while. Let's see how they survive on the few stations they can get in "Other Channels" on the Sky box, along with BBC iPlayer, Hulu and YouTube. »

#“Kindle for Kids Must Be Coming Soon” Sibal, our 7 y/o, just read a sample chapter of Judy Moody on my Kindle. Some of the words were beyond her and we made good use of the dictionary feature which is pretty decent. But it struck me that a "Kid Mode" would be 100x more useful. It would give a child-friendly pop-up explanation plus optional audio pronounciation. Basically what the VTech Storio does but at Amazon scale. »

#“Can @vodafoneireland Explain The Differences Between These Three 1GB Add-Ons?” Or do we just have complete UI failure? And as for the "You've used 2GB of the 2GB on your 1Gb Plan", eh, no I haven't, I've used 250MB.There is also a big difference between GB and Gb. 8x in fact. »

#“20 Years of WWW - I think I started in 1995 with RTEMS” Today is the 20th anniversary of the web. Pretty incredible 20 years really. My own history of the internet was finding Usenet in 1990 when I started my Masters in UCD, followed by email, FTP.FUNET.FI, Gopher, WAIS and the joy of downloadable shareware. There was then a pause from 92-94 as I worked on GSM basestation software in S3 and only had email. »