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Privacy by obscurity

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...
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Are Apple making a play to cripple Google/Microsoft?

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...
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RE: Is Facebook unethical, clueless or unlucky?

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...
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Mindset of the mob – a response to John Waters

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...
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Irish URL shortening services

Ok, so, at the end of the day it's not really all that important that a URL shortening service has a .ie at end of it. Or is it? I find myself using bit.ly (not Irish) more and more due to how much better integrated it seems to be with services...
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Developer Links – 27-07-2009

Some of these are a couple of months old, but not out of date if you haven't seen them :) Easy Retweet Button - John Resig, authour of the jQuery library, has written a little script to do a nice, simple and effective "retweet" button. A Programmer's Bookshelf - My esteemed colleague,...
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Make DestroyTwitter client look like the Irish Times

Ho ho ho, hilarious, I know. http://destroytwitter.com/themes/lg [caption id="attachment_258" align="aligncenter" width="336" caption="Destroy Twitter theme screenshot"][/caption] PS: Tweetie for mac and iPhone is the only Twitter client worth using....
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The New Media Rags (bit of a rant)

"Social Media" news sites are swiftly becoming the tabloids of the 21st century, exemplified by dumb posts like this, as well as the latest example of linkbaiting from Techcrunch. For example, I feel that there's a big, gaping hole in the world of tech news and information. I find myself turning...
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Boycott TechCrunch

Before, TechCrunch was just mind numbingly vapid VC cruft and linkbait. This was irritating, but fortunately resolved by simply ignoring the garbage stream that TechCrunch likes to think is journalism. Now, it seems they've moved onto a different level, a level you (like me, perhaps naively) might have hoped had a...
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Developer Links – 14-06-2009

App School - Damien Mulley and the Collisons are running a (somewhat pricey) introduction to iPhone development course. Will be interesting to see what sort of takeup they get; best of luck to them! The Grand Plan - Article in the Times from Patrick Collison on how he thinks Ireland should...
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