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Johnston Press’s pay wall falls over..

by on 31. Mar, 2010 in Business, Technology

Days after my blog post “Pay walls going up for Irish traditional media“, the very people who inspired  confidence in pay walls  for online regional new publishers are now taking them right back down again. I hate to tell you I told you so, but .. pressgazette.co.uk reports that Johnston Press halts pay wall experiment: [...]

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Anothers Life brings the lives of others back to life

by on 16. Mar, 2010 in Technology

The lives of others was an experimental blog that was started back on March 18th 2008. What made this blog compelling was an anonymous format that provided the ultimate freedom to share or to speak, to mention the unmentionable and to explore feelings and emotion. Almost two years on and the site has now closed [...]

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Weedle Weedle Weedle to launch today

by on 04. Mar, 2010 in Technology

Weedle the new job search thing is due to launch later today. I was at the Weedle preview last night and it looked kind of cool Basically  Weedle are another social network but are a mixture of a golden pages and a social network.  Think of it as a slicker linkedin where you can quite [...]

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Artcamp Dublin, Spring 2010

by on 24. Nov, 2009 in Technology

I’ve managed to get involved with helping to organise another barcamp. We have done barcamps, bizcamps and all that jazz, now its time for Artcamp. The main idea being to help bridge the divide between the artist and technology community. Both artists and technology community have a lot in common and even more learn from [...]

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Meteor Broadband working on Ubuntu

by on 06. Apr, 2009 in Technology

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 [...]

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Webby / Blogger / Whatever – meet up, in review

by on 28. Nov, 2008 in Jason Roe, Technology

I would like to say a big thanks to everyone who turned out last night for our meet-up. I was taken back by the number of people actually who showed! There was a good mix of new and old faces, we must have had about 18-20 people show up. If anyone has any photos please [...]

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Blogger / Webby Meet-up Dublin Thursday 27th Nov

by on 11. Nov, 2008 in Jason Roe, Technology

As part of the latest round of ad-hoc meet-ups in Dublin, I decided to arrange a Blogger / Webby / Twitter (whatever) meet-up for people in Dublin. The date is Thursday 27th (evening time) , the venue has yet to be decided (Depends on the numbers) Details of venue below. It has been suggested that [...]

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Software Freedom Day 2008

by on 19. Sep, 2008 in Technology

Photo owned by Isha.Net* (cc) The event will start at 11am on Saturday, September 20th. The location is The Digital Exchange, Crane St., Digital Hub, Dublin 8. What can you expect? Talks [approx. 30min. each] 11:00am Doors open – time to explore the venue 11:30am Paul O’Malley – What You Should Know About Software Freedom [...]

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Tweet tweet SMS twiter to your phone

by on 26. Aug, 2008 in Jason Roe, Technology

Yesterday I had the pleasure of helping Donncha O Caoimh out by contributing to the WordPress Tweet Tweet plugin. I added support for vodafone.ie free texts. You can now receive a SMS message (via vodafone.ie free text) when someone sends you a reply or direct message. Try out the plugin and let us  know what [...]

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ifood.tv

by on 18. Aug, 2008 in Technology

ifood.tv Site seemed to be down after a pitch on the Dragons den? The site seems to be hosted by Layered Technologies, Inc. Might as well host in the USA What the dragons said was correct .. its http://ifoods.tv/ not ifood.tv Strange thing is ive been to the site many times and mixed this up! Time to [...]

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