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Re: Loic and George W

James Corbett — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:02:07 -0000

LMAO.... nice one Dennis. ;-)

Re: Lost my watch (Scripting News)

James Corbett — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:08:13 -0000

I've long thought that Swatch are the iPod of watches Dave. Or, more correctly, since Swatch were huge long before the iPod was born, I've long thought of the iPod as the Swatch of music players :)

Re: Thank You Skype (and Sandrine!) for the Asus AiGuru SV1

James Corbett — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:48:49 -0000

Hey Loic is the AiGuru working okay for you? I got one last week but it consistenly loses the Wifi connection after a few minutes, regardless of which router I connect to, and then I cannot reconnect no matter what I try. The only way to reconnect is to turn it off and leave it off for at least 10 minutes.... yes, weird!

BTW, I'm investigating the use of the AiGuru for a new social project I'm working on to bring video calling to the elderly, disabled and other socially isolate groups. It seems like an ideal device in terms of user friendliness, as soon as they've sorted all the bugs

Re: Thank You Skype (and Sandrine!) for the Asus AiGuru SV1

James Corbett — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:58:22 -0000

Nocky, I've got a netbook too - the Dell Mini 9 - and love it to bits. BUT, for my social project (bringing video calling to the elderly, disabled and other socially isolated groups) there is simply no comparison between a netbook and an AiGuru. I gaved a 7 year old and a 70 old two minutes instruction on making a video call on the AiGuru yesterday and then turned it off. Both of them were able to turn it on, navigate the menu and place calls without problem. Try doing that with a netbook of any kind. It's horses for courses :-)

Re: Irish blog award longlists: leaks show plethora of Local bloggers nominated

James Corbett — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:09:01 -0000

Don't forget Alexia Golez and myself, both proud Shannon siders longlisted in the Tech Blog Category! :-)

Re: [Catchup]Video from Limerick OpenCoffee event.

James Corbett — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:09:58 -0000

Thanks for pointing to Limerick OpenCoffee, a business networking event which has gone from strength to strength. We meet on the first Thursday of each month at the AbsoluteHotel.com from 11am onwards. It's free and open to all. More information on OpenCoffee.ie

Re: Local Music: Black Daisy - Disturbing New Fashion

James Corbett — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:40:12 -0000

I wasn't too impressed with the band from their appearances on You're a Star but wow, I really like this track. Nice one girls!

Re: Road closure due to traffic accident

James Corbett — Tue, 06 May 2008 05:09:09 -0000

Have the Gardai released the name of this man? I'm taking over the maintenance of RoadDeaths.ie

Re: Google Spreadsheets

James Corbett — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 14:57:40 -0000

You're absolutely right Paul. I think Mr. Arrington is just trying to court some controversy/publicity for himself here.

I've resisted Microsoft Office for over 10 years now in my home computers and Google is slowly but surely making it clear that I'll never have to go for bloat. What's really terrific is the sharing and chat features - myself and my business partner in the USA can now use the combination of gmail, gcalendar and gspread ;-) for 95% of 'Office' business needs :-)

Re: Feeds for forums

James Corbett — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:31:36 -0000

You're right Paul - eventually all aggregators will support hierarchical OPML browsing. I just use the term "Feed Grazer" to differentiate between the aggregators that already support hierarchical browsing and those that don't yet.

However, that's not quite the end of the story as regards feed grazers. Its not just about the ability to navigate multi-level hierarchies - its about providing advanced management features for transient feeds. These include drag and drop re-arrangement of nodes and hierarchical tree branches, support for reading lists (ie. dynamic feed lists), etc (hey, I'm on the board of Grazr Corp. - I can't give it all away! ;-)

Another point of difference is that Grazers approach feed management from the "subscriptions are dead" point of view. In an RSS everywhere world, ie. where there are thousands of feeds you'll want quick if fleeting access to) it makes no sense to talk about subscriptions. We can't possibly make long term contracts with each and every feed. What we'll want is a way of managing feeds such that we can access them briefly in an organized way for as long as they are relevant to us and then be rid of them just as quickly.

Re: Zidane is a hero?

James Corbett — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:41:34 -0000

Well said Paul, wise words indeed.

Re: Google’s next trick

James Corbett — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:35:07 -0000

I love the new Google Reader Paul but I was really scratching my head with regard to that feature. It seems to defeat the whole purpose of feed aggregation. BUT, now that you mention photo and email feeds it starts to make some sense, though yes, as you mention it requires control over the tag or feed. Interesting....

Re: Google’s next trick

James Corbett — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:58:39 -0000

Actually Paul, I've just realized that there now is a Tag specific Next bookmarklet. Did that slip in on the recent update?

Re: Bertie came

James Corbett — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:52:03 -0000

"The day went well though he was in and out faster than a wife dragging her man out of a pub"

That brings back the memories. It was all of 6 years ago when I setup in business and first thought of myself as a web developer. One of me first contracts was a website for the local parish council. As luck would have it An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was calling around to launch some other scheme/association in the parish and we got him to launch the website at the same time.

What amazed me was the way in which the whole thing was choreographed. Bertie's personal assistant literally rehearsed every footstep Ahern would take and estimated how long it would last..... "So An Taoiseach will enter at this door.... walk across the room thus.... sit down at this chair..... and push this button.... then he'll stand for a photograph and exit via that door".

Of course "pushing the button" didn't actually do anything significant but I guess it cut the virtual tape ;-)

Re: Bertie came

James Corbett — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:53:26 -0000

Did I actually write "one of *me* first contracts"....? Crikey I'm not really that much of a bogger.... honestly! ;-)

Re: Bertie came

James Corbett — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:45:23 -0000

Weird indeed but I bet that kind of thing happens all the time. DId you ever see the episode of "Hanging with Hector" where Ò hEochagàin followed Bertie to France? There was a photocall on the steps of some building and Chirac forefully shoved one of Bertie's aides down the steps out of the shot. And I don't mean 'nudged gently'.... I mean *forecefully* shoved .... hehe....

Re: Reader your reading list

James Corbett — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:26:40 -0000

I've been using Google Reader similarly for over a month now and really think it's a terrific feature -

http://eirepreneur.blogs.com/eirepreneur/2006/1...

I call it 'feed-a-feed' and don't really see the point in burning the feeds to be honest. It's just an easy way to filter and redistribute memes.

Re: Twitter’s not for twits

James Corbett — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:27:03 -0000

Paul, mind if I add you to a list of Irish 'coworkers'/web-workers (ie. freelancers, homeworkers, startuppers, etc)?

Re: The Twiterati

James Corbett — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:35:24 -0000

Paul, that's an excellent point - there's definitely a much more local feel to twittering (for me at least) than blogging. In fact I found it very interesting to hear some of the people in the coworking community looking for ways to 'tune into' geographically based coworkers when they travel. I think when Twitter introduces groups it will provide an ideal means of facilitating that. I expect we'll initially see an 'Irish' group on Twitter and then more local ones as the number of users goes up - Waterford, the People's Republic of Cork, etc ;-)

Re: The Twiterati

James Corbett — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:09:01 -0000

Woah, didn't of that - webographically too. That means twitter could replace one of those dime-a-dozen 'group swarming' websites that allow you to discuss webpages with other visitors/viewers. Hmmm....

Re: HDTV, first take

James Corbett — Thu, 31 May 2007 06:48:57 -0000

Looking forward to your updates on your HDTV adventures Paul. I've been asking a few newbie questions on the boards.ie forums regarding availability of FTA HD and unfortunately it seems like it's still limited to the BBC trial channel. And the HD receivers are still rather expensive. Some commentators believe that should change quickly though.

Re: HDTV, first take

James Corbett — Thu, 31 May 2007 10:53:40 -0000

Kav, hope you don't mind if I jump in here but I'll refer you to the following chart which demonstrates that viewing distance and resolutions are important considerations -

http://wirelessdigest.typepad.com/.shared/image...

Re: In the Summer time

James Corbett — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:13:39 -0000

It's been terrible Paul but in fairness, even for Ireland this is a bit of an extreme. In fact, my mother's 71 and says she's never seen a summer so bad. Yes, as a young girl she saw haystack being washed into the river but she never recalls months of rain every single day.

Re: Lesser subscriptions

James Corbett — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:47:10 -0000

Paul, that link to Embracing Chaos doesn't appear to work. I'm eager to read it since it sounds a lot like the philosophy we have at Grazr in that the system helps provide access to groups of feed on an on-demand basis. Feed Grazing is about access to and glancing at feeds without subscribing.

Re: Friendster begets MySpace begets Facebook begets Perfspot

James Corbett — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:51:34 -0000

Well said Paul. While I remain an active user of Twitter and Jaiku (social networking lite) I've lost all interest in Facebook (not that I ever used it much to begin with). The only sustainable Social Network longterm, IMHO, is the blogosphere (Call it blogopshere 2.0 if that doesn't make you puke ;-).

It's damn frustrating waiting for the microformats / OpenID / OAuth / whatever-else-is-needed ecosystem to bootstrap but it will eventually I think.

Re: GossipCrunch

James Corbett — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:02:00 -0000

Welcome to the club. Arrington engaging in a witch hunt by reprinting private emails is what did it for me.

Re: The view on wind power

James Corbett — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:36:00 -0000

Spot on Paul. I can see 5 of the 18 turbine Tournafulla (Airtricity) windfarm from my house and actually took a Sunday drive to the hilltop last week. There were plenty other 'tourists' sightseeing there too. It's a spectacular sight on the main Limerick -> Tralee road.
http://www.airtricity.com/international/wind_fa...

Re: What’s on the box?

James Corbett — Thu, 01 May 2008 06:30:51 -0000

I was very late to the party as regards 24 - I never watched it while it was airing on TV here. But I bought the first season on DVD 2 years ago and, like you, couldn't stop watching it once I started. I very quickly went through the first 5 seasons. So 24 is still my all-time top TV program, heart-pounding stuff all the way.

I was nearly ready to give up on Lost myself after the first 4 episodes of last season. It was just getting dull. However, this season has brought great rewards for those who stuck with it - each episode has been excellent, almost reaching 24 level consistency of quality IMHO. What's really made it great this season is that they've dropped the flashbacks in favor of flashforwards which has give a totally new dimension to the mystery element.

Re: It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future

James Corbett — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:37:00 -0000

Mike, I'm a bit late in hearing this news and just wanted to wish you the best of luck in future. It was great meeting you during my trip to Boston and I know that whatever you do in future you'll make a success of it.

Re: Who I’m reading - OPMLs for your enjoyment

James Corbett — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 03:33:21 -0000

Hey Kevin, you might like to try out the free OPML browsing and feed reading service called Grazr (at Grazr.com). You can embed a Grazr on your webpage or launch it into stand alone mode. I use one on my blog.

[Disclosure: due to my enthusiam for feed grazing I was taken on as an advisor to Grazr Corp.]

Re: Dedicated Video Conferencing

James Corbett — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:25:14 -0000

I've got a netbook too - the Dell Mini 9 - and love it to bits. BUT, for my social project (bringing video calling to the elderly, disabled and other socially isolated groups) there is simply no comparison between a netbook and an AiGuru. I gaved a 7 year old and a 70 old two minutes instruction on making a video call on the AiGuru yesterday and then turned it off. Both of them were able to turn it on, navigate the menu and place calls without problem. Try training a 70-year old to do the same with a netbook of any kind. It's horses for courses :-)

Re: European Startups vs the US Upstarts - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

James Corbett — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:18:44 -0000

Very interesting to hear how the Digital Pioneer Programme works - what a great scheme. Agreed we need to meetup with EI and trash out some of these issues.

Re: Are you going to buy an iPhone? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

James Corbett — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:50:31 -0000

I've no intention of getting an iPhone and had been dreaming of an N95 for many months before Bernie Goldbach, kind gentleman that he is, insisted I take a loan of his Sony Ericsson P1i for a while. Now I generally have no loyalty towards any gadget manufacturer but have probably come closers to being a fanboy of Nokia than any other brand. Having owned a 3650 and 6630 (before I lost it) I was very happy with the S60 interface and inclined to imagine I'd have no time for UIQ nor any need for a touchscreen.

But I admit one month later that I'm a convert to both touchscreen and stylus. That's not to say I'd consider an iPhone, I still wouldn't, but it is to say I'd definitely feel now that I was missing something by going back to S60. The only reason I *would* have considered an iPhone is for the browsing capability but I've got to say I'm so thrilled with the experience of Opera Mini 4 on the P1i that I can't now imagine any advantage in mobile Safari. Opera Mini 4 kicks ass! And I can zoom in and out and navigate around with ease using the stylus or even my finger. It really feels like the (full) web on a mobile.

The QWERTY keyboard on the P1i did take me some time to get used to though. I used to be under the impression that it would be an immediate boon to my text entry speed but what I learned was interesting. Even though I'm a touch typist I came to realize that skill is based on instinct rather than thought. Pretty much like riding a bike. Which mean that I couldn't actually get my thumbs to find the right keys without looking at them. However, a few weeks later and I seem to have retrained my brain to locate the right keys with my thumbs too. Meaning that I can now compose text messages with greater speed and accuracy than ever I could with my Nokia. By the way the predictive text is also much better than T9. Not only does the P1i predict words but also sentence fragments.

Bernie has extended the loan but when he eventually recalls the P1i I've a feeling I'm going to be left with a very tough decision. Go back to Nokia or get another touchscreen SE.

Re: Are you going to buy an iPhone? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

James Corbett — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:26:14 -0000

XDA? Er, thanks very much but no thanks very much ;-)

Remember you're talking to an almost- Nokia fanboy here so you don't have to do much evangelizing but please explain in what way "Nokia wins every time". In terms of usability? I know web surfing is only one aspect of the P1i but I find it very hard to imagine that I could have anything like as good an experience usability-wise on a Nokia as I'm having with the touchscreen and stylus.

Re: The Great Facebook Debate video - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

James Corbett — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:29:34 -0000

Great video, thanks for that. Really appreciate edited, breezy material that captures the essence of an event in a few minutes without waffling on for hours like some other online video shows.

Re: Why TechLudd should stop before it starts - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

James Corbett — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:50:38 -0000

Great commentary on the matter Paul. I've met Antoin at Limerick OpenCoffee a few times and know he's a great guy open to good advice.

One correction on your post though.... I'm no good to anyone as regards advice on this kind of stuff... I've organized feckall in that line! I'm all mouth no trousers mate ;-)

Happy Christmas! :)

Re: Networking week in Dublin - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

James Corbett — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:46:32 -0000

Sing it with me now Paul - "30 days has September, April, June and November... " ;-P

I'm heading up to the big smoke for the Blog Awards so a dinner sounds good. I actually met Pat Phelan in the flesh for the first time at TechLudd last night, after knowing him for what feels like years online. Next it's time to find out if you're for real or just a top-secret bot escaped from the Google lab ;)

Re: Get off your ass - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

James Corbett — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:42:58 -0000

Really nice post Paul. I've only ever been, er,.. confronted by a Big Issues seller a handful of times but each time I walked quickly past... not because I don't care but because I found each seller had an aggressive attitude (that's why I say 'confronted). Wish I'd met the likes of Carlos.

Re: San Francisco here I come - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

James Corbett — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:02:43 -0000

Hey Paul, how many of the Web Mission people are on Twitter, Flickr, QIK, etc? Got a list of their IDs? What tag is being used? WebMission08? I'd like to build a widget to track all the action.

Re: San Francisco here I come - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

James Corbett — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:44:05 -0000

Paul, if you can put a list together of IDs of those travelling for Twitter, Flickr, Jaiku, QIK, etc, etc, I'll gladly build the widget. A small list will do to get started. A QIK channel is good but it's also nice to be able to follow individual contributions to the 'lifestream'. Having being involved to a degree in the organization of Paddy's Valley I'm very interested in following the experiences of all those travelling on the Web Mission.

Re: Cool Web 2.0 image editor

James Corbett — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 09:00:32 -0000

Glad you found out about PXN8 Robert, it really is a terrific little service. In fact I was so impressed when I was reviewing it recently for "Web2.0 Ireland" that I said "Move over Picasa - PXN8 is here!" Obiouvly PNX8 is much more compatible with GMail than Picasa.

Re: Something fun

James Corbett — Fri, 25 May 2007 06:41:27 -0000

I only rediscovered vpod.tv recently Robert when Loic Le Meur used the service to cover TechTalk Menorca at Martin Versarsky's farm. Loic is also using it for his own 'tv channel' - http://loic.tv/

What I love about it is being able to double click on an embedded video (as on Loic's blog) to open it up full screen. Click to pause. Click to restart. Double click to pop it back down to blog size.

Re: Getting links from A-listers

James Corbett — Fri, 25 May 2007 06:56:26 -0000

Noooooo! You can't stop. I beg you! I find it an invaluable filter of the blogosphere, second only to TechMeme. So I've posted a (belated, I'm sorry) reciprocal link for citing my Bytes 'n' Bobs post :-)

Re: You’re watching my Twitter video

James Corbett — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:04:42 -0000

This was your best video yet Robert IMHO. You managed to squeeze some good information out of the Twitter guys and also gave us a good look inside the company. Thanks.

Re: TechCrunch: Linkblogs are evil?

James Corbett — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:44:44 -0000

Robert, I've said it before and I'll say it again, don't you dare give up on your link blog! Pleeease! It's one of the most important data-streams in my life and save me loads of time every week by filtering out the noise and bringing me the important stuff.

Don't mind Riley, he's way behind the times on this. I can't understand how he didn't see the writing on the wall. Last January I started writing about “Google ReWriter” -

“…. blog posting, commenting and social bookmarking are various forms of the same thing - annotation…. we must shake off the page-centric mindset. The ‘Wide Web was about reading pages, the Live Web is about annotating microchunks (e.g. permalinks). While we tend to categorize our annotation according to the point of submission, each form is essentially the same. Whether to your own blog, someone else’s blog or a third party note-taking site it’s the same mechanism. Different context but same mechanism.What sense does it make that I have to open my Performancing plug-in to blog, visit a blogger’s web page to comment and invoke a del.icio.us pop-up to take a note? None! I should be able to perform each annotation from within my aggregator - a single unified interface to the Live Web. And I’m betting that’s exactly what Google ReWriter will become.”

I followed up in February -

“…. how will we publish these microformatted comments? With our Google ReWriters (or other 2nd generation aggregator/annotators). We can already use Google Reader to annotate (tag) posts, just press ‘T’. A new version will allow us to comment, just press ‘C’. These comments will be microformatted and tossed back into our uniFeeds, there to be scanned and recombined back into the discussion flow by any microformat aware aggregator.”

Not meaning to blow my own trumpet but it’s been very obvious to many that this was on the cards.

Re: Digging an elite news source

James Corbett — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:57:10 -0000

I think you hit the nail on the head here Robert. I've largely migrated to Jaiku recently but still try to keep up with my Twitter friends. Unfortunately most days I only get time to skim through. The one Twitter feed I don't skim is your linkblog. I unsubscribed from Digg last year because there was about 2 hits for every 8 misses in terms of matching my interests. However I consistently find myself clicking through on 8 out of every 10 items in your linkblog.

On days when I'm extremely busy I only read the feeds from my friends, techmeme and your linkblog. I feel like I'm still connected while tracking those.

Re: Irish coffees with the Irish tech entrepreneurs

James Corbett — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:10:07 -0000

I'm part of the PaddysValley group and really looking forward to it Robert. And seeing as Irish Coffee was 'invented' only 15 miles away from me in Foynes, Co. Limerick I'll be happy to regale you with the true history. You might be interested in clicking through to the webpage for the http://www.flyingboatmuseum.com/ to learn a bit more -

"Foynes, Ireland, became the center of the aviation world from 1939 to 1945. On July 9th 1939, Pan Am's luxury Flying Boat, the "Yankee Clipper" landed at Foynes. This was the first commercial passenger flight on a direct route from the USA to Europe. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, this quiet little town on the Shannon became the focal point for air traffic on the North Atlantic...... Captain Charlie Blair, later to become the husband of the actress Maureen O'Hara, had made the first non-stop passenger flight from Foynes to New York in 25 hours, 40 minutes...."

Re: 3 news sites to launch shortly

James Corbett — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:53:20 -0000

Looking forward to seeing wifimapper. We started a collaborative map on Google a few years ago and there's quite a lot of data there if you'd like to use it -

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0...
112855554048460880778.0004358aea20ba94cba25

Re: Geek Dinner – Wednesday April 26th – 7pm – MarketBar, Fade Street

James Corbett — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:57:06 -0000

Thanks for including the convenient Google Reminder button. Unfortunately I wont be able to make it but I look forward to the dinner on Thursday.

Re: The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn

James Corbett — Tue, 02 May 2006 17:40:35 -0000

Yes, I think there's great demand for a startup school and I second Paul's vote that it could be done as an unconference - great idea!

Re: BarCamp for Ireland

James Corbett — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:35:17 -0000

Definitely!

Re: Web2Ireland meetup in London – at FOWA

James Corbett — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:02:23 -0000

I'll be at the FOWA but not sure if I can pencil in the dinner yet (have a meeting to attend). Can I provisionally book? :)

Re: Web2Ireland meetup in London – at FOWA

James Corbett — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:34:38 -0000

Actually I will be able to make it. And please add Adam Green of Grazr to the list too :)

Re: Web2Ireland meetup in London – at FOWA

James Corbett — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:22:31 -0000

Change of plan for me and Adam - we won't be making it now unfortunately.

Re: Irish OpenCoffee Club – entrepreneur/startup meetups

James Corbett — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:47:42 -0000

Great idea. I'm proposing the lobby of the Clarion Hotel in Limerick which is the most comfortable venue with free wifi that I know of in the city.

Re: Coffeeclubs, Conferences, Coworking and Community

James Corbett — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:47:31 -0000

"However I think a critical aspect of Saul’s announcement is that it comes from an investor."

Very true, but knowing how slow Irish VCs are to come down from their lofty perches I'll be happy to get the entrepreneurs going along first and then putting it up to the VCs to come join us :-)

Looks like Jan Blanchard and myself, so far, are going to kick-off the Limerick coffee mornings next Thursday.

Re: Coffeeclubs, Conferences, Coworking and Community

James Corbett — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:58:45 -0000

"I hope my comment didn’t read as a criticism."

No, not at all Conor, and your post is spot on. Looks like we'll have Evert Bopp along now as well so that makes three so far. :)

Re: Red Herring Europe Top 100 – the Irish nominations are…

James Corbett — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:58:03 -0000

Well done Fergus and everyone at Nooked !!

Re: Valley World Tour Update

James Corbett — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:34:47 -0000

Silly me forgot to post the password on the wiki homepage, it's - silicon

Re: Web 2.0 Expo, November 6-8, 2007, Berlin, Germany

James Corbett — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:39:23 -0000

I'm off to Berlin for a few days next week. Want me to do any advance scouting... like for an Irish pub or two? ;-)

Re: Opencoffee Limerick – Auctomatic chat on ustream

James Corbett — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:28:24 -0000

Thanks but I've got to say it wasn't just the people in the AbsoluteHotel.com who made today such a great experience, it was also the interaction we had from remote viewers through twitter, jaiku and in the Ustream chat room. It was a wonderful occasion.

Re: Westport goes 3D – with help from Irish company and Google

James Corbett — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:17:51 -0000

Excellent, I must get in touch with these guys about participating in 3Dcamp.

Re: YL Ventures wants to meet Irish startups

James Corbett — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:39:22 -0000

Thanks lads, you're both on the list for our first video chat. That makes 4. If we could get one or two more now that'd be great.

Re: BarCamp Cork II ?

James Corbett — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:20:48 -0000

Hey, if Podcamp qualifies as a Barcamp (and it does) surely 3Dcamp in Limerick did?!? :-)

Anytime is good for a Cork barcamp!

Re: Speed Networking in Trinity College

James Corbett — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:12:13 -0000

I wonder if some kind of speed networking session could be tied into Barcamp Cork? Personally speaking I'm not the most outward-going person in the world and find myself at Barcamps gravitating towards people I recognize/know. And I know I'm not the only one - it seems to be a fairly common geek trait!. So perhaps one session dedicated to speed networking for those who'd like to make new contacts (like me) in a less awkward manner. Just do it like speed-dating - eg. divide the attendees into two even groups, allow 2 or 3 minutes for each pair to chat, ring the bell, everyone moves to the next person in line, etc,.

[Yes, I have been speed-dating and it works great :)]

Re: The grand plan by Patrick Collison

James Corbett — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:04:25 -0000

Great debate/discussion here everyone, keep it going. Just in relation to Vinny's point above - "Would love to see 10 companies reading this come together and raise enough between them to support a couple of ideas" - I'd like to point to a related idea I posted on Joe's blog just now -

"What I’d like to see too is more €6,000-ish grant schemes like the level 1 awards made by Social Entrepreneurs Ireland each year. I was one recipient of such a grant last year and it gave me the opportunity to invest a lot of time getting my project off the ground. @keithdkennedy is after announcing on Twitter that he has just received news today that he is to receive a level 1 awards through this year’s scheme. And I know that’s going to make a big difference to him in terms of the commitment he can give to his project idea. In some terms there’s not a lot you can do with €6k but in other ways there is, as many other alumni of Social Entrepreneurs Ireland have proven over the last few years. And access to the Social Entrepreneurs Ireland network is invaluable.

I often wonder why us Tuesday-pushers don’t create a similar ‘crowdsourced’ grant scheme where we use Pledgebank or similar crowdfunding service to fund (non-social) business ideas IQ-prize style by the group of people donating to the fund… and I do mean donating. We could then provide advice/feedback on an on-going basis in the same way Social Entrepreneurs Ireland do, through an on-line forum/network/twitter.

I for one would be happy to pledge €60 to such a fund and I’m sure we could find 100 other on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and so on. In fact I’d be happy to make such a donation every couple of months. Anyone want to help make it happen?

Re: Co-working Belfast Plan

James Corbett — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:23:00 -0000

Delighted to see this getting off the grounds lads, well done! Just had a ridiculous (but fun) idea too about creating 'portals' between co-working locations island-wide by virtue of 42" plasmas running Skype Video windows to other locations for that ambient visual presence effect - http://rooreynolds.com/2008/03/12/ambient-skype/

Re: Wi-fi top up cards?

James Corbett — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:39:37 -0000

Sounds to me like someone should be there selling 3V vouchers [www.3v.ie/] and taking a cut Paul.

Small plug - there are several hundred free and open Irish wifi hotspots mapped at OurMaps.ie