I am a web designer & developer based in Galway, Ireland. Information on my work is available from my company site: Ambient Age Web Design.

I am also completing a PhD in Information Systems. My research is on the Adoption of IT Standards for technologies to support Ambient Intelligence.

Author Archives: Dave

Bringing Bizcamp to Galway, Sept 2010

For the first time, Bizcamp is being run in Galway this September 11th. I’ve been to those run in Dublin and Limerick in the past, and they’ve been a worthwhile trip. It can be a great place to meet mix of like-minded people – from those who have been through the mill of setting up [...]

091Labs has a new home

Congrats to the 091Labs guys on putting this together, it looks like a great space with some massive potential. Their new home is in Foster Street in Galway. Nice work!

Cleanternet

Heh. More at cleanternet.org (via TJ McIntyre)

The Future of Publishing (Video)

Very clever video released by Penguin Books, there’s more information on how it came about on their site

Us Now

I’ve been posting quite a view videos recently, which is strange because I don’t spend that much time watching them online….but I thought this one was worth sharing. It’s a documentary about new forms of collaboration and social media technologies. I came to it via a tweet by @marklittlenews last night. It seems to have [...]

Galway

Galway, New Years Day, 2010 Came across this great video – someone in Failte Ireland or Look West should be giving him money for it and using it to promote Galway.

Singapore…

Had to take an unexpected / unplanned trip to Singapore on Tuesday.  Lovely place. There’s a few other in a set over here.

Flash Mob Cork

Bumped into this last weekend on Patrick Street in Cork (some pretty shakey camera work…but you’ll get the idea). The guy dancing up in the window was the best bit!

Twestival Galway time again

Twesival Galway is being run again tomorrow night. This time around it’s in support of the GSPCA, and there’s a nicely made video below to show you why. Twestival Local is : …a global series of events organized by volunteers around the world under short timescales, which bring people offline for a great cause.  Twestival [...]

Holiday Reading – A Book About Innocent

Image by Thomas Rockstar via Flickr I just had a week away from it all. It gave me some time to catch up on a bit of reading – the highlight of it was an impulse buy in the airport: “A Book About Innocent“.  If you’re interested in starting a business, or seeing how a [...]