August 11th, 2009 by btw
As part of the latest round of ad-hoc meet-ups in Dublin (Ireland) .. we decided to run another Blogger-Twitter-Whatever (BTW) meetup.
The plan is to meet in the Kudos Bar at The Clarion hotel (IFSC) from 7pm on Thursday 3rd September. (The Kudos Bar is located in the clarion hotel in the IFSC). We will get food, drinks and well .. whatever! We have space for up to 150 people this time round, so it would be great if you could bring friends and work colleagues along 
more the merrier! Id really appreciate if everyone could give this one a big push!!
There will be Finger food and 2 for 1 cocktails on the night.
Register Below.. I will send out a reminder RSVP the week before the meet-up.
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August 9th, 2009 by Jason Roe
I’ve been neglecting my blog for a little while. Like everyone else, the whole micro blogging thing (@jasonroe) is what has been keeping me going. I’m making a commitment here and now to go back “old school” again and resume blogging. You really cant beat a blog in terms of flexibility. There have been so many occasions where I wanted to write more than 140 characters, but the thought of having to go through the motions bored me to death.
This blog, its identity and who I am has changed a lot since I started blogging. Originally I wanted a place to chat about what I do in work, web design and development stuff. Well who would have guessed, but talking about that stuff after a day in the office bored me to tears. Don’t get me wrong, I love what I do but to be honest, I hate talking about work outside of work. I would much prefer to have a good long chat about business than the technical side of what I do. Read the rest of this entry »
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July 16th, 2009 by Jason Roe
About Jason Roe
Jason Roe is an internet consultant specialising in web development, search engine optimisation (SEO) and social media. He has worked in the internet and technology sector for the last six years and has been involved in a number of high profile web development projects such as CRO.ie, Independent.ie and Herald.ie as well as recent social media innovations by Enterprise Ireland.
Jason is a strong advocate of blogging, coworking, and the development of regional events, networking and training opportunities for people in the internet and technology sector. He is active at the grassroots level and is involved in organising BTW (Blogger-Twitter-Whatever) meetups and Bizcamp.ie.
Jason Roe’s aims in running in the 2009 IIA Board election
Jason is a strong advocate of the ‘get out and push’ mentality that the internet community and industry represents. With this in mind, he believes strong leadership and people with innovative new approaches are key to dealing with the challenges IIA members will face during the economic downturn.
In the context of a knowledge economy, Jason believes that the IIA and its members can play a key role in securing the growth of this industry into the future.
Jason’s aim is to get on board with the IIA and facilitate the changes that are required to make this happen. Read the rest of this entry »
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June 30th, 2009 by Jason Roe
I’m sure you have probably all heard about this by now.. It seems there was a bit of a burn out going on over at boards.ie yesterday in the bargain alerts forum.
Littlewood Ireland aka Shop Direct Ireland Limited had advertised a “Compaq mini desktop with 21.5in monitor” for €69.99 on their website. 34 pages later, it seemed like the little wood had all but gone up in flames! It turned out that this “bargain” was actually a pricing error on the part of Shop Direct.
It looks like all of the order have now been canceled. I’m no consumer expert! but id love to know what you think about this. Is it fair for a companies terms & conditions to allow this kind of thing to happen?
There are some unconfirmed reports that suggest that a number of users received their item by phoning up and switching to express delivery.
I filed a complaint with the national consumer agency. Let see what they have to say. I cant see how €549 turned into €69 .. is this a case of false advertising?
* Photo by millicent_bystander.
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May 23rd, 2009 by btw
As part of the latest round of ad-hoc meet-ups in Dublin (Ireland) .. we decided to run another Blogger-Twitter-Whatever (BTW) meetup.
The plan is to meet up at Howl at the Moon from 6pm on Thursday 11th June. (Howl at the Moon is Located on Lower Mount Street, just off Merrion square). We will get food, drinks and well .. whatever! We are moving to a new venue as we needed a bit more space! The guys at Howl at the moon are even giving us free platters of food.
Please pass this on ( http://short.ie/btw-june ) and Invite your Lunatic Badge friends.
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April 22nd, 2009 by Jason Roe
The ever talented John Handelaar has made a substantial announcement today about a new site called KildareStreet.com
The pitch:
Up until this morning TDs made 249,489 speeches, and asked 160,503 questions which received written responses. On average, TDs are producing 507 speeches and 326 written answers per sitting day.
Sadly you won’t have had access to information like this before, since the Houses of the Oireachtas publishes the Dáil record primarily on an illegible website ridden with elementary display errors.
At KildareStreet.com you can:
- Read a dramatically-more-legible version of the Dáil Record going back to January 2004,
- Search that record using a fabulous search engine which I didn’t
write – you can restrict searches to speeches or written questions, or
by speaker, or by date or date range,
- Sign up for email alerts for when a search query you’re interested
changes, or whenever a TD of your choosing says something or asks a
question which generated a written reply, and
- Subscribe to RSS feeds for individual TDs or for search queries.
The site will be updated the day after each sitting day shortly after the Oireachtas publishes that day’s first report version in XML. RSS feeds and emails are generated shortly after that.
John notes, that the site still contains bugs.. so be careful about jumping to early conclusions 
The Dáil has now really gone web 2.0, with a bang!!
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April 18th, 2009 by Jason Roe
Just testing out ScribeFire a Firefox extension for editing your blog.
ScribeFire is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web Browser that integrates with your browser to let you easily post to your blog: you can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog.
Scribefire Review – Blog Application
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April 16th, 2009 by Jason Roe
The IIA are holding their national congress on Thursday 21 May.. The slant is Better Business Online .. Money, Marketing, Monitoring & Mobile.
Speakers include Facebook – speaking at the largest Internet industry event in Ireland to date – Google, dotMobi and Realex Payments. Id be up for going to Ronan Harris’s (Google) talk on Analytics and Conversion tracking. Colm Long from Facebook is another one to watch out for.
The guys at the IIA have offered my readers a 20% discount for the event. (That includes members and non members). We all love saving a few quid.
To avail of this enter the code “ cong004 ” book by the 17th April (Tomorrow) to avail of the early bird price.
11.40am – Ronan Harris – Online Sales & Operations Director, Google, will examine the role Analytics and Conversion Tracking plays in getting far better results online.
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April 6th, 2009 by Jason Roe
I was interested to find out how to get Meteor Broadband to go working on Ubuntu. I found a number of threads on forums about the topic, but no one had found the answer yet.
Meteor don’t pitch this product as supported on Ubuntu / Linux.. but I found a number of blog/forum posts that suggest that the Huawei E180 usb modem used by Meteor works out of the box. The real question was .. once you had the device recognised, what configuration did you need to get it to work?
I offered €50.00 of my hard earned coffers to the person who could tell me how to get Meteor Broadband to go working (naively) on the Huawei E180 in Ubuntu.
Update .. I got it working!!
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April 3rd, 2009 by btw
Id like to say a big thanks to everyone who came to the April BTW in Dublin. We had over 58 people show up!! I hope you all had a great time. Photos via Fergal Byrne are up on pix.ie. We hope to run the Dublin BTW aka Blogger-Twitter-Whatever (BTW) meetup. event every two months.
To mix it up a bit I also wanted to run a Cork event in parallel. Please blog and TWEET THIS on twitter.
The venue is the Boardwalk Bar & Grill, We will be meeting at 6pm sharp. Directions here.
By Lucinda O’Sullivan
What is BTW?
BTW stands for Blogger – Twitter – Whatever .. The first BTW meet-up was held on November 2008. The aim of the meet-up is to open up our “niche web community” to a wider audience. BTW is an informal gather of people who are interested in (but not limited to) bloging, social media and the web. There is no agenda or rules .. people turn up, enjoy themselves and meet new faces.
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