Yesterday I made some design tweaks and added some new features to TwitEye, the little web app I launched a couple of months ago. TwitEye streams ideas for new applications and services based on questions asked by Twitter users, so, for example, “is there a service that lets me translate news feeds into different languages?”. [...]
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FineTuna ~ Tuesday Push
June 9, 2009 – 2:24 pm
FineTuna is a web application for sharing and collaborating on images. It’s a nice idea (with an odd name), and another really nice & simple design by the folks in Spoilt Child (this is the second service they’ve had Tuesday Pushed – here’s the first one I did). It’s a good thing when an app [...]
Decisions for Heroes ~ Tuesday Push
May 19, 2009 – 1:06 pm
This time around, the Tuesday Push is the newly launched Decisions for Heroes . Their pitch is: We’re helping emergency services save more lives by making better decisions. Decisions for Heroes is a collaborative rescue team management tool, that helps record and analyse rescue operations When they say they’ve launched a web application “that saves [...]
RevaHealth ~ Tuesday Push
May 6, 2009 – 9:23 am
Yes, yes. It’s Wednesday. As that’s out of the way, this time around the Tuesday Push is RevaHealth. In their own words, RevaHealth is a: …healthcare search engine. We gather the information you want about health clinics in the UK and Ireland, and further afield, and display it all comparably. I’ve come across RevaHealth in [...]
It’s Alive! TwitEye.com
April 23, 2009 – 8:35 am
Last night I put up the first version of TwitEye; it’s a simple service that gives ideas for new apps, plugins or services based on questions being asked by the people on Twitter. My first impressions are that at the moment, there are lots of ideas for iPhone apps coming through. If you’re looking for [...]
A Town of Fiction
April 16, 2009 – 2:11 pm
I just posted over on my work blog about a new site launch – The Atlantis Collective. A couple of guys I know are involved in the group and they’re launching their first book of short stories – Town of Fiction – on April 24th in Massimo, Galway. It’s an open invitation, so if you’re [...]
MyMunster.com – Tuesday Push
March 10, 2009 – 5:21 pm
Image via Wikipedia This time around, MyMunster.com is getting the Tuesday Push treatment. MyMunster is a social network for Munster rugby fans; given all the success the team’s been having in recent years, I’m sure they’ve got a lot to be talking about on it. Their pitch is: On mymunster.com you can discuss matches, enter [...]
A Good Nerd Week in Dublin
March 3, 2009 – 10:34 am
There are a few events on in Dublin this week that are of interest to those working in the tech sector. On Thursday, Web2Ireland are running API Wars & Opportunities; a mini-workshop for the web community to discuss: using APIs for business development building mashups/widgets/etc apps on mobile platforms – iPhone, Android, nokia, etc using [...]
Eircom, IRMA & Blackout Ireland
February 26, 2009 – 9:02 pm
Image via Wikipedia Ok, so there are lots of links in this post, because of how active this topic is at the moment. To get a good view of what’s been happening, I think all are well worth a read. Over the last few weeks there have been moves by IRMA (Irish Recorded Music Association) [...]
Tuesday Pushing the Tuesday Push
February 24, 2009 – 11:25 am
Image by Frankenstein via Flickr So, this time around the Tuesday Push is….The Tuesday Push. The idea started in July last year as a way of drawing attention to new products & services being developed by the Irish Tech community; it’s: …a way for the small but growing tech community in Ireland to make some [...]
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