Disqus - Latest Comments for Ciaran Rooney

Re: Google finally ready to take Jaiku seriously?

Ciaran Rooney — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:48:38 -0000

@Benjamin The "new" logo you talk about is actually a very old logo that used by Jaiku in the past and was still seen on certain error pages, and yes the earlier downtime was due to a power outage at their Finnish hosting company.

Re: The first SMS Text News Podcast - demo baby!

Ciaran Rooney — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:43:19 -0000

Eh links guys? You say it like a dozen time but no sign of them :(

Aside from that very cool I like it. The jingles are bit cheesetastic though.

Re: N95 8Gb address book question

Ciaran Rooney — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:45:31 -0000

Could be you have all the contacts in there twice and doesn't know which one to display. I had that happen me for a few numbers

Re: N95 8Gb address book question

Ciaran Rooney — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:46:40 -0000

God dam disqus! Who puts the comments after the comment box! I see I was beaten to it.

Re: Posterous looks promising

Ciaran Rooney — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:57:00 -0000

Is that for real?

"Sent from my Android® wireless device"

Re: Jaiku

Ciaran Rooney — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:49:12 -0000

Hope this doesn't end up in you smap because of all the URLS but

http://jaikuinvites.com/jaiku-is-now-on-the-goo...
http://www.techmeme.com/080824/h1840
http://venturebeat.com/2008/08/24/google-finall...
http://mashable.com/2008/08/24/jaiku-upgrade/
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=1124
http://www.tomstechblog.com/post/What-Jaiku-Say...

and many more ...

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

Ciaran Rooney — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:30:36 -0000

Hey Paul,

Interested in dinner if you are thinking of Friday before IWTC after party or (lunch?) before Blog Awards on Saturday, something like a guys version of Sabrina's Ladies Tea Party? http://sabrinadent.com/2008/01/12/irish-blog-aw...
Anywhere but that dreadful Jaipur place you had the last few dinners in would be good :-)

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

Ciaran Rooney — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:10:00 -0000

I was only joking of course :) thats an amazing amount of food to put up, Jaipur is actually one of my favourite Indians in Dublin.

And I did say a guys version :)

Will see you then either way at the awards.

Re: Google search result for Segala is a little strange. Do you know why? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Ciaran Rooney — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:04:24 -0000

You've really never heard of sitelinks? I find that hard to believe. Isn't POWDR (or is it POWDER now?) all about search?

http://google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer...

:) I wish I was snowboarding, I miss powder!

Re: Something new, really soon.

Ciaran Rooney — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:26:42 -0000

Thunderbirds are go! Can't wait!

Re: FREE ad giveaway on my blog

Ciaran Rooney — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:43:19 -0000

in between with 2752

Re: If you were a thief..

Ciaran Rooney — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:54:30 -0000

I'd also make sure to take the holder off your windscreen as a friend of mine had his side window broken and someone had routed through his glove box looking for it even thought he had brought it with him.

Re: WYSIWYG CSS editor

Ciaran Rooney — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:05:15 -0000

Whats wrong with dreamweavers CSS editor, Its as standards complaint as you are and has auto-suggest. What else do you need from a CSS editor?

Re: sold for $105,000

Ciaran Rooney — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:56:30 -0000

It's a good niche site and at less than $0.50 a user not bad value. The going rate is well over $1.00 now. With a small bit of work you could turn that $5k a month into $10k or $15k a few months time and you are rollin' in it $$$

The number of ad's on it now means that when you start optimize you don't need to be afraid of losing user due there being "too many ads." Also a design front its not hard to improve and everything on it is so clichéd it would be dead easy to design.

Re: more ads on bebo

Ciaran Rooney — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:58:38 -0000

Were they not always there?

Re: sold for $105,000

Ciaran Rooney — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:09:03 -0000

Well done on the ranking Smemon, your actually no.2 though behind MyGettho.com so not bad.

Hi Khris great to see someone from the site come buy and comment. (NO NEED TO SHOUT THOUGH.) I have to agree with here, the last thing the person who bought this for was the design. Another $10,000 -$15,000 will make it into an awesome web2.0 site, which is nothing relative to the price they paid for it.

REPETITIVE BACKGROUND = CONSISTENCY!

Have to disagree with that though, Solid background = Consistency, Repetitive Background = Distraction.

I don't think Smemon was attacking your site though, he was more commenting on the fact how he finds amazing that a site
with such poor design could sell for so much. But then he does say ...

$105k this site sold for. Surely none of that was for the design.

So here I have to agree $105k for the user base and revenue stream well worth it and congratulations Khris. I hope you got a piece of that.

Re: sold for $105,000

Ciaran Rooney — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:47:48 -0000

smemon I agree with what you are saying in general. But at the same time you have cater for your target market and the target of this site is clearly people who like autoplay and flashy banners. They probably hate site's with no gangster music playing and are plain and boring with nothing flashing.

Like it or not the most important thing in this game is distancing yourself from your preferances and going with what the target user would like. I have done many many designs that I personaly dislike but performed very well with the target users.

Re: Wordpress 2.5 out now!

Ciaran Rooney — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:23:55 -0000

Hey Ken has a fix for the ‘popularity contest’ plugin over here.

http://www.kenmc.com/2008/03/30/wordpress-25-is...

Re: why can’t i do this every day?

Ciaran Rooney — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:10:57 -0000

You should look at deploying your wordpress code/plugins/etc via SVN will make first install easy and updates 1000% quicker.

Re: That’s the way to shoe it!

Ciaran Rooney — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:03:10 -0000

Check out this story, you'll like it right up your street

http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/12/17/sockandawe-...

Re: Meteor = Sly Bastards!

Ciaran Rooney — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:43:54 -0000

Hey that sounds shit but for this kind of thing you want Comreg not Regtel, Regtel police premium content like 1580 numbers 5xxxx Texts.

Comreg are the communications regulator and should be able to give you good advise on what to do here you can call them on Low call 1890 22 9668 or got to askcomreg.ie

Re: Wrong on so many levels!

Ciaran Rooney — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:31:07 -0000

Soo true man!

Re: FOWA – Web2Ireland Meetup

Ciaran Rooney — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:01:35 -0000

I'll be there with dave and vinny from justroutes for the wed night so like a good time.

Re: Rise Of The Netbook

Ciaran Rooney — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:20:47 -0000

Read on my Dell Vostro A90 8.9" Netbook currently running XP but soon to be experimented with, on the couch watching Family guy at the same time and sending a few client emails