Getting your small business online The first step to getting your business online is to use the web yourself. Get to know how people interact online. If you don’t have a Facebook account, set one up. Create a Linkedin profile and join some groups. Sign-up to Twitter. Find out what RSS feeds are and how [...]
Category Archives: Technology
Ireland’s Companies Registration Office (CRO) launches API
I see over on Web 2 Ireland that the CRO have released an api. This is great news because now developers can build applications around the data held by the CRO. For some idea of what openData means, here is a video of Tim Berners-Lee (he who invented the world wide web) explaining why it’s [...]
8 tips on creating video for your business
Making a quality video for you business is a lot easier than you would think. With the arrival of youtube, video on the web exploded. Making a video is a great way of ranking in google as not a lot of people out there are creating video for their products and services, and so you [...]
Dublin Web Summit 2011 Day 1
Last Thursday and Friday I attended the Dublin Web Summit in the RDS Dublin. There was a great line-up with some of the top luminaries of the tech world descending on Dublin for the event. Here’s a quick round-up of the sessions I atteneded. I spent most of my first day in the Social Media/Marketing [...]
The future of the internet
Last week, at the Web 2.0 Summit, Mary Meeker of kpcb, one of techs most important investment companies, presented their view of the future of the web. As an investment company whose portfolio includes the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, Spotify and Zynga just to name a few, they have to know where the web [...]
Creating a start-up culture in Ireland
There was an interesting article in The New York Times about how start-ups are the key to job creation. If that is the case what can we do in Ireland to create more start-ups? When we think of start-ups, especially in the technology sector, we think of young men tinkering away in their garage or [...]
Adventures with eircom
All I wanted was 8MB broadband. It all started on the 22nd of September. I was looking to change my broadband provider from clearwire. I was holding out for upc simply because I think it is criminal that we still have to pay line rental just to get broadband. At first I thought it was [...]
Can’t get to work? You should be in the cloud.
With all the snow around at the moment, roads in Ireland are treacherous. Now the government has told us that there are only 2 days worth of grit available. Going to work is rapidly becoming an extreme sport. Imagine though, if you didn’t have to leave your house. Imagine if all your work was available [...]
New Year Resolution, something newsworthy
Well it’s January again so I’m going to start a personal project. The project I have in mind is really ambitious so I don’t want to go into details but it will be built in Django and hosted on Google App Engine. The reasons for using these technologies are many-fold. I really want to learn Django and [...]
Is the Apple tablet finally coming?
Is Apple finally making a tablet? We’ll find out on January 26th.
