#“FOWA Dublin 2010 Startup Pass” The Startup Pass includes 3 tickets for the price of 2 All 3 tickets must be booked at the same time Free FOWA Dublin micro sponsorship (worth 100) Your link + 140 characters, emailed to all attendees one week before the conference Automatic entry into the Start Up Pitch panel 5 lucky winners will get to pitch their web app to the panel of speakers and audience »
#“American: The Bill Hicks Story in IFI tomorrow. Go.” via ifibooking.ie Damn I wish I was in Dublin tomorrow. It's on at 8.30pm and you can book on the link above. All the reviews are raving about it. »
#“Google filling the gaps in Twitter too? But Replay is awesome.” By replaying tweets, you can explore any topic that people have discussed on Twitter. Want to know how the news broke about health care legislation in Congress, what people were saying about Justice Paul Stevens retirement or what people were tweeting during your own marathon run? These are the kinds of things you can explore with the new updates mode. »
#“Apple Delaying iPad by 1 Month to Add Following Tweaks” The great thing about Steve is that he knows when he is wrong and he adjusts accordingly. »
#“Grant Benefit of Basing BES-backed Business in West Cork” The horror that is broadband in West Cork means that heavy-duty internet-centric businesses willprobablyavoid being based here. However we did run into a little-known business advantage last week.We are prepping to exhibit LouderVoice at a major show in the UK soon (details to be announced shortly) and we contacted Enterprise Ireland to see what supports/grants they offer to companies doing this. It turns out that they usually pay 50% of any expenses incurred which is fantastic. »
#“Plink is joining Google! \u0096 PlinkArt Blog” We have some very exciting news Plink has just been acquired by Google. via plinkart.com I first encountered the Plink guys during the IQPrize. Whilst they didn't get the win, I confidently predicted they would be bought by Google or Microsoft in under 18 months. Well they beat that by miles! Fantastic news Mark and James. Totally deserved. Really really delighted for you both. »
#“Vote in the Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Awards” Innovation Award Conor O'Neill: LouderVoice Ed Hendrick: Sonru Ltd Eoghain Ryan: Mocks.ie Ian Lucey: Lucey Technology Tony Corrigan: TenderScout via iia.ie Great line up of the best and brightest in the Irish web world. Head on over to IIA site and do some voting! Particularly in that Innovation Category :-) »
#“NY Times Review of Treme” The series turns almost didactic at times, but for a reason. Treme is a work of imagination that seeks to reacquaint the world with a struggling citys reality. via nytimes.com If it's even 1/10th the show that The Wire was, it'll be better than almost everything else out there. »
#“My Mobile Broadband setup due to Eircom’s Uselessness” From midnight to 7pm, Eircom broadband is actually pretty good. I now get a solid 6.1Mbs DSL connection on a 7Mbs line after clenaing up all the wiring in the house. But at 7pm'ish every evening it collapses. I'm not talking slow, I'm talking 1993-era 14.4kbs type speeds and worse. Around 9pm we have nothing. 0bps. Contention my hole, this is a joke. »
#“Twitter tackling potential spam/abuse hard” I got a shock last night to receive an email from Twitter support to say that an OAuth Token we had configured had been suspended due to potential abuse.A quick explanation of what that means: When clients add LouderVoice customer reviews to their site, we provide the ability for their users to Login with Facebook and Twitter credentials and also to send a copy of their review to their Facebook or Twitter Account. »