It is no secret that I’m tired of incumbent Eircom and am looking for a new telco. I saw Smart’s fancy new ad campaign on the telly, and I thought they were the answer to my prayers.
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Privacy: Giving Guns to Psychopaths
Simon Davies, the founder of Privacy International is speaking in Dublin on Monday.
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Practical tips for Wikis
Justin gives some practical tips about how to use Wiki software to support the SpamAssassin online community effort. Wiki software is a very flexible, free-form system for allowing fast editing of website content.
The terror and media merry-go-round
According to Dave Hooper there is a hint of hypocrisy about the commemorations of 9/11. To me the problem is deeper; we are all participants in the drama around the terror attacks and most of us have no idea of how much we are being manipulated.
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Government services – paying car tax online
I just paid my Irish car tax on the Internet. It’s pretty neat. Now they will mail me out a little disc to show that I’ve paid. The only question is, why do I need the disc at all?
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The moleskine notebook of the web
I just spent the guts of 14 euro on a notebook. Notebooks are basically all just the same. Why would I spend that much on one? It’s like software – why would you pay for something when you can get something that does almost the same thing for a lower price?
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Posh banking for connected people
If you think about a bank, it’s basically a system for connecting people with money. You give the bank money to look after because you trust it, and they give you money on loan if you check out.
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Social Networks for Buyer Power
Markets are controlled by sellers. Think about it. When was the last time you went into a shop and they asked you to make an offer on something? How often do you go into a shop and ask for what you want, rather than taking what they have to sell? It doesn’t have to be that way.
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Business education with a difference
I met up with Finbarr Bradley for lunch on Thursday in Metro Cafe. Finbarr is now a professor in the Dept. of Economics in Maynooth, and has a couple of new degree courses coming on-stream.
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The future for mVNOs
Mobile Virtual Network Operators (mVNOs) are mobile phone companies which hire capacity on another mobile operator’s network and then resell it. I worked for an mVNO some years ago, and there is some coverage about it in the media at the moment. I have to say, I am a little cynical.
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