Category: Web 2.0 (News)

The TechCrunch CrunchPad Is The Future of Fabrication

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A fair amount of buzz today over Michael Arrington’s posting of details of his Tablet Computing prototype over on TechCrunch. Arrington is looking to make a slate-style touch screen device, running at 1024×768, and booting directly to a Webkit based browser. It looks ungainly now – although I think the Duplo based stand (*) in the demo video should be included in the retail pack – but his target of $300 retail price is ambitious and places it in the impulse buy in many tech stores. I’m not going to go down the route of many blogs that are trying

Not Your Father’s Palm – Impressions of the Palm Pre

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So at CES today, Palm unveiled their new phone, the Palm Pre. This is a tough time for Palm, they’ve not had luck with their recent devices and software. The assumption is that this device had to hit it out of the park for Palm to survive the recession. Form the initial looks, I think it’s going to struggle. There’s nothing especially new in the smartphone space here. The screen is 320×480 in portrait mode; it’s running on EV-DO for data 9so it’s effectively US only), it has a multi-touch screen that has support for ‘gestures’; a Qwerty keyboard slides

The Silent DJ Is Here – How Did That Song Go Again?

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Probably the craziest music I’ve heard is the Silent Disco – where everyone piles into a location, grabs a pair of headphones, and starts dancing to the music on the headphones. The music is supplied by DJ’s which broadcast the music to every headset. So people who want to hear the music can hear it, and those that would rather listen to the DJ on the other side of the room can change frequencies and join a different disco. The point of this is to illustrate that music can be appreciated in many ways. And sometimes not head at all.

Twitter Security Problems? Change Your Password!

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Lots of hand-wringing around the web this morning over Twitter becoming the latest web serivce to have spam, phishing and other stuff that comes with the territory. Twitter should console itself that it is now a big enough target for the dark corners of the internet to spend time and effort into scamming users of the site. This probably legitimises Twitter more than anything else – crack open the champagne, boys! What can everyone else do? Well simple steps first. And the most obvious. Change your password (Chris says it just as loud). the relevant link is twitter.com/account/password but if

Mobile Monday Dublin Notes

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Back from Dublin and the Mobile Monday talks on Location Based Services and Social Networking. I was speaking last, on Wubud, and the team over on Voice. An Opinion has written up thoughts all three companies presenting. Here’s how Wubud came over… Wubud was last up. Ewan seemed to have an impossible task: give a talk about wubud while expressly and specifically saying absolutely nothing of any detail about wubud. Tricky that! :-) Anyway – that’s what he did. We know wubud is a mobile social network, and that the jump-off point for contacts is your phone’s address book (something

I’ll Be At Mobile Monday Dublin Tomorrow

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A quick note for those of you in and around Dublin. I’ll be talking at the Mobile Monday event tomorrow on the subject of Location Based Services and Mobile Social Networks. Specifically I’ll be talking about the stealth start-up Wubud. Which is still in stealth. This should be… interesting. Those of you wanting to pop along, doors open at 1830 for the start of event at 1900, at The Odeon Bar, Harcourt Street. More details on MoMoDublin at their website .