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Friday, August 8th, 2008

Firstly, Salesforce.com are looking for:

Salesforce.com are looking for a graduate or junior web developer to work in a fast paced interactive marketing team based in Dublin, Ireland.

Job Details.

A Dublin-based telco are also looking for a fulltime web dev. PHP, usual scripting etc. Email me for more details or I’ll email your details on to them.

Lastly. I’m looking for freelance/part-time copywriters for some blogs. Gastronom.ie to start with and then other blogs, possibly helping people/companies who are just starting their own business blogs. Apply within with subject Copywriter.

Go Team Ireland – Twitterfone 2 launches, SpoiltChild do Olympics

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Twitterfone V2 is out. Well done Pat Phelan and crew for delivering it just a few months since launch. I really love the video for it too which was put together by the Dial2Do folks who are also partners in Twitterfone. Launch, weigh reaction, iterate, weigh, iterate. Always iterating. A great way to run a service besides working on a project for years and years without releasing anything. (Slight disclaimer: I helped Twitterfone with their press release)

Also buala bos to Spoilt Child who did the design for RTE’s Olympics subsite.

The emotional, the inspirational, the practical

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Still a little time to nominate the Blog Post of the Month. Winner will be announced on Monday. Nomination form.

Fluffy Links – Thursday August 7th 2008

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

11. The BBC player goes to.

Piaras has fantastic tips for tech startups/tech SMEs.

Brilliant. Kilkenny County Council create a wiki for planning issues.

Ahhh David Norris. Always the vaudeville act.

This is cute.

Starbucks doesn’t seem to be doing well in Oz.

Garbage in…

Every bathroom needs this.

As blogs grow in audience, they take less risks. There are exceptions though.

Red Devil. Sky at night…

Scala and Kolacny Brothers – Friday I´m in Love

Back in a bit

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Fluffy links back tomorrow and all that.

ISPAI – Join our union or else you’re not against stopping child porn

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Sensationalist headline from the Tribune this Sunday: Internet providers refuse to fund web sex abuse hotline. So have you stopped beating your wife then? That’s pretty much the same line.

The line from the article is child pornography is online and without Digiweb, Magnet, Hosting 365, Leap et al paying fees to the ISP Association of Ireland who run Hotline.ie, child porn is going to run rampant because Hotline won’t be able to keep going. Think of the children!

among the well-known companies which are not members of the Internet Service Providers’ Association of Ireland (ISPAI) – and by extension are not financially supporting its Hotline.ie service – are Digiweb, Magnet, Hosting 365, Smart Telecom and Lastmile.ie

By extension? So by extension Texaco are not in the ISPAI so they too REFUSE to fund the war on child porn?

Isn’t it odd that they can’t support Hotline.ie on it’s own but have to buy into the ISP Association if they did decide to voluntarily help in the reporting of child pornography online? Can other companies give financial support to Hotline.ie?

Why is an industry-run group tasked with logging reports about child pornography online? Well apparently our poor Gardai have enough to be doing, besides, you know, watching out for serious things like Child Pornography:

Paul Durrant, general manager of the ISPAI, told the Sunday Tribune the current approach, whereby members of the public can report suspect internet content to Hotline.ie, had been agreed after high-level discussions between the relevant authorities 10 years ago.

“If there is no hotline there, where are the public going to report to? Their local garda station, who have 101 things to do?” he added.

So maybe we let Toyota, Ford and Irish Toll Roads Ltd run an organisation that patrols our roads for people that commit serious crimes there? Same logic right?

Were I Digiweb and Magnet and Hosting 365 I’d be phoning my solicitor over the way they got painted in that article. I also think were the Government to actually try and regulate this they’d get a kicking in the Courts for forcing a company to pay dues to a “voluntary” organisation. We’re not obliged to join a union as individuals, why should a company be strong-armed into joining a business union? If the Government is going to fund Hotline.ie then do. Enough of threatening businesses to join a voluntary org, only part of which deals with fighting child porn.

If the Government really gave a damn about Hotline.ie wouldn’t they be funding it?

Fluffy Links – Tuesday August 5th 2008

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Will has a great idea about going pink.

Dear Paul Street Car Park. I’m coming for you.

The latest On the Record Muxtape is brilliant. Really love the cover of The Knife.

New site: Arts and Crafts of Ireland.

Why Powerpoint just doesn’t cut it for presentations.

The O2 sale where prices go up. A lot. Ooops.

So, what have you stolen?

Slash and Perry Farrell play a concert for kids. Wow. Though they played Jane Says. But the kids don’t know what it’s about.

My Drive Thru, a song sponsored by Converse:

Fluffy Links – Bank Holiday Monday August 4th 2008

Monday, August 4th, 2008

There’s a meetup in Ballincollig in Cork on the 7th for those who are applying to seedcorn/seedcamp.

Let’s have some foodie fun.

Via Irish Craft UpdateBrownie Points, gift ideas for men to buy their women. Site needs a better design, but great idea.

New blog: I saw this.

Sinéad says we should volunteer for science. So maybe do.

Nialler finds a very odd anti-smoking site.

Why Microsoft’s Mojave experiment proving people really do like Vista is just bollox. Good marketing stunt though.

A very interesting idea. Idiots who call 999 have their idiocy stuck up on YouTube.

A neat way of visualing social networks … using Excel

MGMT – Kids

Fly me to the moon. Sideways. Also on Robert’s blog:

dbTwanged – Business Post coverage of guitarist’s social network

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

Congrats to dbTwang featuring in the Sunday Business Post today. Our own Keith is the CEO of it and they’re brought in Gerry McQuaid, formerly of O2 to be on board too.

Recruit Ireland understand Web 2.blah

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Well done to Recruit Ireland who seem to have an understanding about how the 2008 web is working.

RecruitIreland Web 2.0

Not only are they doing RSS job feeds but they also have a Twitter profile and have an application for Facebook allowing people to search for jobs. They also have a Bebo profile, though no job search app on that just yet.

I’m most impressed with the Twitter profile because they’re using it in the best way it can be used.

RecruitIreland Twitter

It’s not broadcast. It’s interacting with people and has a person behind it. Too many people don’t realise that “social media” brings back most value when there’s a personality and a friendly manner. Blogs work best when it’s a person writing and interacting with people leaving comments though it could just be used to house press releases, Facebook could be used for a bland profile but it becomes more valuable when those connected to you get some banter back and likewise with Twitter, you can just use it to link to new blog posts (and this can be automated) or you can use it to interact and immerse with people.

See, the more human you make your business interactions with other humans the more value it has. That’s how social media works best. It’s harder work though, maybe that’s why so many companies take shortcuts and screw it all up? It’s great to see Recruit ireland become human. Their blog must be just around the corner so. 🙂