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Without getting all Sister Act we'll follow you, wherever you may go. Best of luck!

Brilliant. If people use this tool and get miffed, great. A tool that lets people know they're not as great as they think they are might be a good thing in the longrun for them. It's not damage. If someone unfollows me because I don't follow them then they may have been following me for entirely the wrong reasons.

Qwitter (bad name given another app with same name has existed for ages) is an app that is causing emotional reactions and changing the status quo on a social network. That's Wow right there. Like Marcus said, disruption.

I use JazzBiscuit's tool:

http://www.jazzbiscuit.com/blogCCsearch/

Guranteed Irish or something, copy and paste is yer only man.

Love the new design

Congrats to the whole family!

Hello, I like your domain name.

Crikey, everyone has beaten me to recommending you talk to Pat.

Fred, come to Ireland if you can, we'd be delighted to welcome you and show you around. Bono might be too busy preaching somewhere outside of Ireland about saving the world to have a pint with you, sorry!

I'm a big fan of Twitterfone because 1. It rocks 2. One of the founders is from Cork, Ireland and Cork people are terribly patriotic 3. It accepts naughty words

(Disclaimer: I helped the Twitterfone folks get the word out about it when they launched and I'd consider Pat Phelan from MaxRoam to be a close friend)

They're excellent live. Saw em at Electric Picnic.

I'm getting more trophies made for a commercial event so the trophy guy will throw this in for free. Don't worry about the cost. :)

Cunts. I'll have another made and send it by DHL next time.

and there's absolutely no pressure to perform now at all is there? :)

Making love to the camera dude? :)

Purple Cow. Haha.

Since I'm mentioned here I guess I have to reply but to be clear, I won't be taking an active part in any of these groups and for various reasons I think I'm going to be bowing out of most events in 2008.

I'm glad the white knight that is Fergus came in to this and talked the most sense here and was not territorial. Too many dogs, not enough hydrants.

Anton, you did consult me but I didn't give much, if any feedback though I did say run the idea past Fergus. Seems there's been a basic communications screw up here by a few people not one. I had meant to forward on your thoughts to Conor and James too but things got in the way.

Anton this next bits sounds like I'm talking as if you're 14 but I'm in too much of a hurry to frame this right. Anton is bright and enthusiastic and has a lot of energy and wants to help a community not act just for himself. The org doesn't matter but he should be welcomed into the community since when it comes down to it there's a very slim few busting their balls to do things here and there's always space for more er .. dangly bits. But there needs to be coordination too so there's no overlap. The place is too small to have overlap.

By the by, the information on web2Ireland is almost all new information to me. I wasn't aware of that, perhaps there needs to be more in the about us section and how to help us sections?

Really surprised at the amount of pissy ego bumping in the comments here. I mean, none of them were from me.

Here's our itinerary: http://paddysvalley.org/?p=51

Happy to meet up with anyone AND everyone from the 2nd to the 9th. We'll also be having a networking event in Pete’s Tavern, 128 King St, San Francisco from 6pm to 8pm on Thursday the 6th of Dec. All are welcome.

Don't use banner ads or Google ads to get my attention. I won't notice them. Don't build flash or flashy websites to tell me about your existing or new products, they'll waste my time.

Instead, talk to the bloggers I read and have them test these new products out. Have the grumpy and non-grumpy people review your stuff.

Do create sites that will make me consume more data or if you don't create them, give me easy access to sites that will. You still make money from my downloading.

Don't build a new twitter or something like that which makes me spend more on text messages which will make you more money. I've already made my commitments so partner with them or Jaiku or existing sites. You still make your buck.

As can be seen by Nike, they're moving away from old-style marketing and instead are creating services and communities where their customers gather after using their product, such as that Nike running site. A site that gets their customers to run more, wearing down the shoes more and so ensuring more products and accessories being bought too. Don't build something yourself, hire in someone that will instead, some new young company that gets this, you'll take 3 years with all your meetings about meetings. Hi Nokia Mosh!

Some thoughts so far.

Haha

"we all know Ireland has a very powerful tech base (and it was really cool how they built it!)."

I'm Irish, I work with tech people a lot, please explain that comment because it's news to me.

I have a public Google Reader feed of all the Twitter users in Ireland (or at least a lot of them)
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/120971...

but this app won't show that, only the root shared feed - http://www.google.com/reader/shared/12097132795... If I was able to use Mario's app to show my shared Twitter label, I'd be using it.

I changed DNS servers and all is fine.

Do you think Apple is entitled to know the identities of those that sent the email to Engadget after so much damage being caused?

Ok, the time delay between writing my comments and pressing post was two hours (I forgot!). Good to see some additional info added. Best of luck with the talk. Will you have a video of it? I bet more people watch it than the Intel one!

Robert,
Are you contractually obliged to attend this as it is what your company dictates?

Is Podtech running out of cash? It just seems like you have to go to this and the Intel video fiasco made it seem like you were under personal pressure to get more attention for them.

I think you should go and take expenses but not take a fee and from the keynote tell them all there what blogging is about, like you and Shel wrote about and explain why the pay per post model is a bad thing.

You're well respected and loved because you are not a shill. I hope you're not changing.

There seems to be a bit of a blur with this. Intel are not a sponsor but *are* a client? Money is being exchanged with Intel either directly or indirectly. Only in the comments has it been mentioned they are a client of some description. I'm honestly surprised as you normally are excellent with disclaimers. I think you should have had some kind of message saying your employer has an existing financial relationship with them.

I agree with Adam, (disclaimer: I know him) this video promotion is akin to the work of a PR company.