Author Archives: Ross

Prescient – “The End of Practical Obscurity” (dated 21/05/2003) Further evidence supporting the idea that Apple is planning to cut the legs out from underneath Google. Discussion: Students and professional developers take on the “skill shortage” in the IT sector (Boards.ie). Mark Dennehy’s take. Somewhat prescient, somewhat wacky – What the future looked like in […]

In the same minute that I pressed “publish” on this blog entry, it was downloaded by search engines, chopped up into keywords and indexed for the world to find. It was downloaded into RSS readers. If it were something significant or vaguely interesting to someone, it might be copied to another blog, a forum, linked […]

Just a thought that came out of a café conversation with Conor; the increasing effort from Apple to eradicate Adobe’s Flash platform from their devices could be a subversive attack on the advertising revenue of both Google and Microsoft. We know that Apple owns the high end of consumer laptop purchases and holds a significant […]

In response to the three questions proposed by Jason Calacanis today: 1. Is Facebook clueless, unethical or just unlucky? Why? I don’t believe that Facebook could possibly be clueless; they’re one of the few companies that gets to take their pick of what talent is available to the industry. This is a slip into the […]

An opinion piece about the effect of “new forms” of communication appeared in the Irish Times on Friday last, written by John Waters. While the piece makes some succinct and witty observations, I believe that it fails to comprehend the breadth of application of what is collectively referred to as “new media” (with scope as […]

Does it make a difference whether or not one uses an Irish URL shortening service? I find myself using bit.ly (not Irish) more and more due to how much better integrated it seems to be with services from Twitter to WordPress. It appears to be inching ahead of myriad other potential services, though I think […]