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Fluffy Links – Friday December 3rd 2010

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

Ireland competes in another International sport –Football Tennis. Really.

I give a lot of presentations on online marketing/comms/social media each month. If you want your company as a case study to be used in my presentation, fill in this online form. Note, the form will be made public so everyone can avail of good case studies.

Measure It! January 5th or 12th, you decide.

Remember that online retailer list I put together? Now standing at 82 listings of people selling goods online in Ireland, some have special discounts. As a retailer, you add yourself here. It goes live right away.

Some videos from the launch of Wicklow TV.

Was in Malaga the other there where I had a good laugh with Mr. Adair from NI Travel News.

At the Janelle Monae gig the other night, where she painted and sang, some clever kid got a video:

Fluffy Links – Tuesday 23rd of November 2010

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

DCU Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship has opened the application form for their 1Million investment fund. Up to 24 early stage technology startup companies can avail.

Silent protest outside Dáil on Thursday holding You’re Fired signs.

Colm Tobín on the IMF coming to town.

The first allowed for compromise and nuance in Ireland over issues of identity and sovereignty. It allowed for the idea that you could be British in Ireland, or both Irish and British, or just Irish. It allowed for the idea that history carries as much shadow as substance, and that nothing is simple in our heritage. It was negotiated with imagination and openness by Irish politicians and civil servants as well as British ones.

Queer Notions 2010 – Dec 7th to 11th. I like the idea of The Bobby Sands Memorial Race:

Bobby Sands was a long distance runner as a teenager. During his time in the infamous Maze prison in Belfast, Sands wrote articles and essays on endurance and running. His essay, ‘The Loneliness of a Long Distance Cripple’, is the inspiration for Welsh choreographer Eddie Ladd’s extraordinary show The Bobby Sands Memorial Race.

Set on a 12ft X 6ft running machine, Ladd’s stunning solo piece follows the sixty six days of the hunger strike and considers the long-distance goal of resistance.

Go Google. They bring out a plugin that allows you via Word and Excel to live sync with Google Docs. And it supports more versions than Microsoft’s online offering!

The Pipe, the documentary about the Corrib Gas project, will be released at the Irish Film Institute with a gala screening + Q&A on Thursday December 2nd at 6pm

Roy Harper – When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease

Fluffy Links – Saturday November 20th 2010

Saturday, November 20th, 2010

Another Foodfight.ie competition, this one with Doodle bread.

And it’s from Cork. Nift.ie task management web app.

Despise designing a powerpoint deck? Outsource it.

An IGNITE Information Evening which will include talks on Wealth Creation and Idea Generation will take place on Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 at 6pm. To register for this free seminar email ignite@ucc.ie

Researchers throughout Ireland are invited to the 6th Annual Scientific Workshop of the National Access Programme (NAP) which takes place at Tyndall National Institute in Cork on Wednesday 26th January 2011.

Loving this Cake Stands made from old plates.

Preventing suicides by projecting an ad on to the river under a bridge.

Digable Planets – Where I’m From

Fluffy Links – Monday 15th November 2010

Monday, November 15th, 2010

Not my idea, so after some banter on twitter a website gets created that lets people know Is Mulley On a train? I think it’s genius. I would though.

I’m compiling a list of Irish Online Retailers to get Christmas gifts from this year. Are you one? Add yourself here. To see the list so far have a look here.

And on that: Do Irish websites make money?

Now this is a nice patriotic ad for Ireland. I thought it was by the IDA to start with, it should be:

And yes, I agree. Being There is a fantastic movie.

Ghost and Entity removal. Thank you Internet.

City Tickets. Take pay and display machines and allow them to be used to log issues with your City Council.

Username and password in the one box. Like it.

Hidden Cameras – Boys of Melody – A Take Away Show. Walking down by a river while performing this. Lovely.

Fluffy Links – Monday November 8th 2010

Monday, November 8th, 2010

Two competitions over on Foodfight:
Win a voucher from James Whelan Butchers.
Win tickets to the Food and Wine Magazine Christmas show.

When first I heard you could talk to smoking doctors online, I thought it was something different to the Quit Smoking clinic….

An Post Mobile App lets users, track and trace that letter or parcel, find the nearest post office and calculate postage for everything from a postcard to a parcel all from their iPhone, iPad or iTouch.

Contemporary Music Centre’s new music::new Ireland salon series. The first Salon takes place in the Kevin Barry Room of the National Concert Hall, 6pm – 7pm, 10 November 2010.

Fluffy Links – Friday November 5th 2010

Friday, November 5th, 2010

Fantastic. A marketing ROI calculator. Web based and free!

The 2010 Boards Photo Book is being launched on November 20th. As usual, all money goes to charity.

The third series of Dragon’s Den has a closing date 28th of November for those that want to submit their idea. Ah g’wan.

Georgina Campbell’s Ireland Guide app has been updated. More content and even premium content!

Check out this massive waste of money. Grants given to iPhone app creation for the Arts. Clones of existing ideas. A funding system that already exists and a hologram about Irish coffee for only 180k.

Freshmilk clothing from Cork has made a range of tees in support of Movember.

Dead Cat Bounce have made a moustache inspired single in support of Movember that’s out this week called ‘Everytime You Shave A Moustache Dies’

Fluffy Links – Tuesday October 26th

Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

So far in 2010 it’s been stop and go and stop stop stop for blog posts here on this website. November is going to be insanely busy with me for work so the blog is going to become very quiet. Just so you know!

Unboxing is a big thing in tech review circles now. Buy something and then film it as you unbox it. This is the first recording of a modern unboxing.

Check out the LinkedIn of the Panos fella from The Apprentice. You can find a LOT more of the Apprentices on Twitter too and you’ll get a good idea of who wins it 🙂

This is fairly shocking but unsurprising. Use open WiFi, log into sites others have logged in to with ease with Firesheep.

Good hiring advice here.

Museum for rescued letters. Love it.

Lady GaGa and her little monsters can be strong poltical lobbyists.

If you’ve read Zero History by William Gibson, out just a few weeks you’ll have read about the flying penguin drones. I’m stunned that they exist and are out a while:

Fluffy Links – Monday 25th of October 2010

Monday, October 25th, 2010

New Irish language blog by cailíní deasa for cailíní deasa and it’s called … Cailín Deas.

Science Week which is on 7-14 November this year. Now with web comics!

One4all now have an iPhone app. See on your phone where you can spend your vouchers.

These sunglasses are either super cool or super fool.

Apple have just approved the ‘World Edition’ of Grab Radio. Grab Radio now has over 40,000 stations on board with up to 40% ( 30% on the first release) now streaming with metadata to enable Grabbing and Tagging of music and shows all round the globe.

Sticking with the music theme. Tastebuds.fm is a brand new website that matches single people based on their music tastes. Created by two musicians (one from Cambridge, UK and another from Co. Offaly). Phil Collins, bringing people with bland tastes together since 2010.

Nice FOI web app. Irish version is deffo wanted.

Time lapse footage of the making of the covers for Bill Coleman’s new record ‘You Can’t Buy Back Your Life’. The music is snippets of songs that appear on the album.

This is how the 2010 Realex Payments Web Awards went down:

Fluffy Links – Monday October 11th 2010

Monday, October 11th, 2010

NAMAland is an augmented reality app which lets you see properties in Dublin owned by NAMA through an iPhone or Android phone.

For all of those people that go from Cork to Dublin a lot. Airport codes on a t-shirt.

Claiming our Future. Saturday, 30th October

It offers a chance for people, trade unions, community organisations, environmental groups and other civil society organisations to not just talk about a better way – but to take new inspiring steps


Mini-docu on work desks that people have. I’d watch another 20 minutes on this.

October 28th, 2010: Life Skills Workshop For Deaf Teenagers.

What we can learn from procrastination.

Mad Men, books mentioned or seen in the show.

Vid of Paul Delaney who designed a bottle for: Your City, Your Heineken… Cork has a wall painted on Oliver Plunkett Street with the bottle design.

Fluffy Links – Friday October 8th 2010

Friday, October 8th, 2010

iPads and photos.

Book iPad cover. Book book.

Love this. Always recording video camera that sits on your ear, looking where you look.

Storyful, The Journal, Broadsheet.ie and now we have Newswhip. Cage match. G’wan.

Art and community. Nice simple idea in New York.

What does the Like button on your website mean? Stats from Facebook.

UCC media recruitment evening. Recruitment Night for Campus Radio, UCC Express and Motley. 13th Oct

Got to visit Grianan of Aileach yesterday before heading to Derry Airport via the Bogside.