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It was as lovely morning as one could find on the west coast of Ireland where I found myself sitting in my car on the streets of the lovely city of Galway.
But my specific location is irrelevant. What I’m about to say probably applies to any place with more than two streets. End of caveat, moving on:
My enjoyment of the new day’s splendour was marred only by the fact that like so many other
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Clearly a lot of work went into this NBC Olympic Pulse... ...
Dr. Chris Horn, co-founder of Iona, president of Engineers Ireland, and member of the Irish Innovation Taskforce, gave a keynote at the Dublin Web Summit a few weeks ago.
He began by giving us some history. 30 years ago, he was a PhD student in TCD's computer science department. In 1981, he had his first visit to Silicon Valley because at that time TCD computer science had some links with Stanf
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John Collins interviewed me recently for an article he was writing for the Irish Times on life in 2030. Here are the full answers to his questions which may be of interest.
Human-computer interaction: the PC of 20 years ago had a keyboard, mouse and screen (although in terms of spec it was less powerful than most mobile phones). Microsoft is releasing Project Natal this year removing the need f
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Gareth Morgan interviewed me recently for an article about geotagging and social media in New Scientist magazine. Here is a longer version of my answers that may be of interest.
Do you see location-based social media apps appealing to users? If so, any thoughts on why?
Linking things together by place and time can be extremely powerful. American computer scientist Tom Gruber wrote an interes
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I attended an invited talk at NUI Galway last year by Gerry McKiernan (blog, homepage) from Iowa State University. Gerry is an Associate Professor at the University and has been working in the area of science / technology libraries since 1987. His slides are available here.
To paraphrase Bob Dylan, Gerry said "the paradigms they are a-changin'". He said that he would focus on four trends that a
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Blaine Cook, formerly of Twitter, gave a talk about some of the elements of the Social Web that he thinks are... ...
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> Excellent summary John - and I agree with so many impediments identified by Chris. A huge culture...
Chris Horn talks about innovation and Ireland: "How can we create a desirable environment for entrepreneurs?"
John Breslin on 02-24-2010