Christmas Cheer in Dublin

I couldn't help but smile; despite all the economic doom and gloom, carol singers raised €38,000 for the homeless while singing on O'Connell Street 4th December.

What a great achievement!

World Taxi Meter is great

I have just come across WorldTaxiMeter, http://www.worldtaximeter.com
What a good service - who writes this stuff

Social Media Buzz

There seems to be an awful lot of buzz about the fact that Facebook now delivers more pages than Google (March 2010).

Here's a buzzing YouTube video with plenty of good stats

Linked in is just plain scary

Linked in is right up there with the 'scary invasion of privacy gang'. I deleted my account a long time ago... around the time the home page started to ask me 'what are you working on today?'

A month later I repented and set up a fake account so that I could still access the network, this time however I went out of my way to minimise the information I gave linked-in and definitely didn't give them access to my email address list. I didn't connect to anybody.

This was fine for a year... and then last night I recieved an email...'Dear So&So, We think you might know the following people, would you like to connect with them?' They had a 70% match rate, people I hadn't even spoken to for years.

Big brother is watching you.. and you... and you!

I just had a quick look on the web... it seems there are people who question the model of giving away your privacy and creativity
Linked In and Techpitch.com are Evil

Smart Banner

Couldn't resist adding a 'Smart Banner' to the left hand side of the blog, especially when you set the category to cats. I find the ads posted on www.donedeal.ie are UGC in the best sense of the word; 'she is a chocolate persian that is singing' - whatever that is!