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.

Category Archives: Work

Update to TwitEye – feeding you good ideas

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?”. At [...]

It’s Alive! TwitEye.com

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 your [...]

Getting Your Head Around Marketing

Image via Wikipedia

Running in the opposite direction to the usual approaches to Intellectual Property protection, Damien is giving away copies of his Online Marketing Documentation for free.
I was emailed a copy this morning, and its well worth a read if you’re interested in figuring out how to get your business talking to  (and more importantly, [...]

Mobile Phone Internet & Camera Usage – Survey (Part 1 of 2)

I had an idea a few of weeks ago for a web / mobile application when I had a quiet afternoon. Rather than leave it in the idea pile, I thought I’d test the waters and see if there might be any demand; so I put together a simple survey to find out how people [...]

Mobile Internet & Camera Usage – A Survey (Part 2 of 2)

This is the second part of the results of a survey I carried out on the use of mobile phone camera & Internet usage. This part looks at how people use the Internet  on their mobile phone.
The first part of the findings look at mobile phone camera usage and profiles survey respondents.
How do you access [...]

The year that was. The year that will be.

Image by Arbel Egger via Flickr

I’ve seen lots of posts reviewing the past year, and predicting what’s likely to happen in the coming year. So I’m jumping on the bandwagon.
For me, 2008 saw a lot of changes, mainly related to work. I reached a big milestone when Ambient Age hit its first birthday in October; [...]

Have 2 minutes for a quick survey?

UPDATE: The survey is now closed with 151 responses (waaaay higher than I had expected!). Thanks to everyone who took the time to fill it in – it’s a great help. I will be publishing the results here soon, so if you’re interested you can subscribe to the RSS for the blog. Thanks again [...]

Some Start-up Problems

In the last month or so I’ve seen two blog posts which have led to very worthwhile discussions around start-up businesses. Combined, these posts highlight the problems facing people thinking about starting Irish web-based business, or existing web-based start-ups.
On Pat Phelan’s blog, the question asked was How can we foster start-ups and innovation in Ireland today?. [...]

hmmm…new & shiny website

I decided the old version of the site wasn’t working anymore, so I’ve cleaned it up and you’re looking at the result.
There were a number of problems with the old one, such as too much of the screen being taken up things that weren’t content. Because the original site was designed before the blog was [...]