http://www.cocomment.com/comments/EirePreneur Copyright 2007 coComment.com 2009-11-23T21:17:26.990+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/images/logo4rss.gif http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=1478669&comment_id=28334054 Anonymous Can you make video calls with this phone? Does it have a camera on front as well as on back? 2008-07-04T23:02:30.928+02:00 2008-07-04T23:02:30.928+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=1374651&comment_id=26299650 James Corbett I was very late to the party as regards 24 - I never watched it while it was airing on TV here. But I bought the first season on DVD 2 years ago and, like you, couldn't stop watching it once I started. I very quickly went through the first 5 seasons. So 24 is still my all-time top TV program, heart-pounding stuff all the way. I was nearly ready to give up on Lost myself after the first 4 episodes of last season. It was just getting dull. However, this season has brought great rewards for those who stuck with it - each episode has been excellent, almost reaching 24 level consistency of quality IMHO. What's really made it great this season is that they've dropped the flashbacks in favor of flashforwards which has give a totally new dimension to the mystery element. 2008-05-01T12:29:48.075+02:00 2008-05-01T12:29:48.075+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=1353924&comment_id=25464758 James Corbett I think he's off the mark then. I had a two week trial of the Asus EeePC and it was without doubt the single most exciting new piece of technology I've played with in years. It's difficult to understand until you've used it for a while but the EeePC hits a bullseye on the sweetspot between size, price and power. In particular the size makes it an incredibly portable device, an order of magnitude more so than most laptops. I ended up taking and using the EeePC in places I'd never take or use my Dell laptop, including the breakfast table and bedside locker. My enthusiasm for the device rubbed off on the headmaster of Gaelscoil O'Doghair in Co. Limerick, widely recognized as Ireland's most technologically advance primary school. They put in an order for 15 'pilot' units but could only get 6 due to the backlog on orders. Other educators I know, such as John Jennings at Tipperary Institute, will also testify that the EeePC is a truly groundbreaking computer. 2008-04-19T17:29:16.920+02:00 2008-04-19T17:29:16.920+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=1314190&comment_id=24958850 James Corbett Welcome to my blog Daithi and thanks for commenting. I'm not sure I understand the comment fully but I'll ask you next week when we meet up :) 2008-03-23T21:51:14.829+01:00 2008-03-23T21:51:14.829+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=1299492&comment_id=24792577 James Corbett Cheers Mike, thanks for the mention. I may have started the map but a number of people have added more hotspots to it than me and I'm delighted to see the great little community forming around it. A special thanks goes to Will King who gathered all the data on FON and BT Openzone hotspots. 2008-03-15T15:32:19.901+01:00 2008-03-15T15:32:19.901+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=1235956&comment_id=23967103 James Corbett Thanks Pat, I really appreciate the great answer. You see my brother is seriously thinking about erecting his own wind turbine to help power the home/farm based business and two dwelling houses. BTW, I did a little more googling and came across this very interesting device - http://www.diykyoto.com/ It looks like the Wattson could be what I'm looking for? Your impressions? 2008-02-08T16:48:42.589+01:00 2008-02-08T16:48:42.589+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=1235956&comment_id=23963102 James Corbett Patrick, in relation to the Standing Charges you wrote - ".... and means that you can work out how much electricity you consumed on average per day." Can you explain further please to this dumbo who's working on a project for his brother to audit his electricity usage. We were thinking of purchasing a device like "The Owl" to monitor usage off the meter but were disappointed to learn that the device will only tell you what you're consuming at the moment and doesn't allow you to download data to a PC for analysis. Do you know of any better device? Or can you explain how to work out useful stats per day from the bill? 2008-02-08T12:48:58.892+01:00 2008-02-08T12:48:58.892+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=1110072&comment_id=22220900 James Corbett I was very dubious about dual monitor setups until recently when a local supermarket had a special offer on 19" LCDs and it prompted me to ask the question of my friends on Jaiku as to whether a second monitor was really worthwhile. The answer was a resounding yes. So I took an old CRT out of cold storage and attached it to my laptop, which has always supported dual screens. I've been trialling this setup for a few weeks now and I have to say I'd find it very difficult to go back to single screen. I use the second monitor as... a monitor. In the true sense. I monitor the live web - Twitter and Jaiku via Google Talk IM. Being able to glance over to my right at that monitor as messages come in instead of task switching on my primary screen saves me a huge amount of time, not just in task switching but in *context* switching. It's hard to describe the difference but when glancing briefly at the peripheral screen I don't feel like I'm context switching. I'm not taking my attention 100% away from what I was doing and so I find it much easier to keep a train of thought going. The secondary monitor isn't distracting. In fact I've taken to calling it my PAD - Peripheral Attention Display :) 2007-11-14T14:51:17.514+01:00 2007-11-14T14:51:17.514+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=1102986&comment_id=22165389 trap4 I'm in two minds about this one guys. On one hand I'd prefer you to keep it real. But on the other hand it was quite funny. Hmmmm.... I'll give it a chance. 2007-11-08T13:01:19.849+01:00 2007-11-08T13:01:19.849+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=1102229&comment_id=22158593 James Corbett Delighted to see more kudos for Joe and team. I sat in on an online meeting in Limerick last week at OpenCoffee where Ken and Bernie Goldback were two of the participants and was very impressed with the quality. Delighted also to have come across your blgo Daragh. One tip - you might want to fix the autodiscovery settings for your feed. http://obriend.info/feed/atom isn't working while http://obriend.info/feed/ is. Now subscribed :-) 2007-11-07T20:48:37.237+01:00 2007-11-07T20:48:37.237+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=1016844&comment_id=19612908 Anonymous Well said Paul. While I remain an active user of Twitter and Jaiku (social networking lite) I've lost all interest in Facebook (not that I ever used it much to begin with). The only sustainable Social Network longterm, IMHO, is the blogosphere (Call it blogopshere 2.0 if that doesn't make you puke ;-). It's damn frustrating waiting for the microformats / OpenID / OAuth / whatever-else-is-needed ecosystem to bootstrap but it will eventually I think. 2007-09-26T14:50:36.142+02:00 2007-09-26T14:50:36.142+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=1004461&comment_id=18870472 James Corbett Paul, that link to Embracing Chaos doesn't appear to work. I'm eager to read it since it sounds a lot like the philosophy we have at Grazr in that the system helps provide access to groups of feed on an on-demand basis. Feed Grazing is about access to and glancing at feeds without subscribing. 2007-09-17T14:46:12.162+02:00 2007-09-17T14:46:12.162+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=1001264&comment_id=18864725 James Corbett This sounds great, looking forward to attending. 2007-09-14T16:57:16.769+02:00 2007-09-14T16:57:16.769+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=997506&comment_id=18785861 James Corbett Duncan, I'm really surprised that you haven't seen that the writing has been on the wall for a long time. Last January I started writing about "Google ReWriter" - ".... blog posting, commenting and social bookmarking are various forms of the same thing - annotation.... we must shake off the page-centric mindset. The 'Wide Web was about reading pages, the Live Web is about annotating microchunks (e.g. permalinks). While we tend to categorize our annotation according to the point of submission, each form is essentially the same. Whether to your own blog, someone else's blog or a third party note-taking site it's the same mechanism. Different context but same mechanism.What sense does it make that I have to open my Performancing plug-in to blog, visit a blogger's web page to comment and invoke a del.icio.us pop-up to take a note? None! I should be able to perform each annotation from within my aggregator - a single unified interface to the Live Web. And I'm betting that's exactly what Google ReWriter will become." I followed up in February - ".... how will we publish these microformatted comments? With our Google ReWriters (or other 2nd generationaggregator/annotators). We can already use Google Reader to annotate (tag) posts, just press 'T'. A new version will allow us to comment, just press 'C'. These comments will be microformatted and tossed back into our uniFeeds, there to be scanned and recombined back into the discussion flow by any microformat aware aggregator." Not meaning to blow my own trumpet but it's been very obvious to many that this was on the cards. And I'm horrified that you should ask Google to put the genie back in the bottle. 2007-09-12T10:38:19.211+02:00 2007-09-12T10:38:19.211+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=959225&comment_id=18294147 James Corbett Lazy is the word, only Irish consumers would put up with this crap. No wonder we're the Ripoff Republic, we can't vote with our feet because our feet are too fat to move :-( 2007-08-17T15:35:49.152+02:00 2007-08-17T15:35:49.152+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=950422&comment_id=18152202 James Corbett Liam, great to finally meet you today and likewise enjoyed the conversation we had. Hoping to continue the discussion at future OpenCoffees. 2007-08-09T20:28:50.044+02:00 2007-08-09T20:28:50.044+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=835396&comment_id=16278992 James Corbett Hi Krishna, sorry about this but I only saw your reply now and realize we missed a great opportunity :( Thanks anyway for your kind offer, much appreciated. I must turn on notifications for the comments here! 2007-06-26T11:17:48.129+02:00 2007-06-26T11:17:48.129+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=827360&comment_id=16131123 James Corbett Thanks for the plug of Grazr Chris (I'm an advisor to the company). You asked about other interesting uses of OPML and I think one of the best I've seen comes from Marjolein Hoekstra who built a marketing search engine called the Power 150 - http://www.cleverclogs.org/2007/02/rssenabled_mark.html Admittedly she used some Grazr specific functionality but the ingenious mashup powerfully demonstrates the remarkable versatility of OPML, RSS and 'small pieces, loosely joined'. 2007-06-23T11:02:23.209+02:00 2007-06-23T11:02:23.209+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=820834&comment_id=16047740 James Corbett David Crellen, that's a mindblowing idea! Kind of like augmented tamagotchi. I know that description will horrify some people but what I mean is that your idea can make 'sponsorship' of a child so much more real and tangible that it currently is. Which can only be a good thing IMHO. Wow, amazing food for thought. 2007-06-21T23:21:59.711+02:00 2007-06-21T23:21:59.711+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=763569&comment_id=14840970 James Corbett I can see Linden Labs snapping up technology like this for Second Life. Audio is already on the way so imagine being able to animate your SL avatar as above to 'mime' your audio. The illusion would be complete! 2007-06-01T10:23:08.316+02:00 2007-06-01T10:23:08.316+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=760688&comment_id=14791845 James Corbett Kav, hope you don't mind if I jump in here but I'll refer you to the following chart which demonstrates that viewing distance and resolutions are important considerations - http://wirelessdigest.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/resolution_chart.jpg 2007-05-31T16:52:41.946+02:00 2007-05-31T16:52:41.946+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=688494&comment_id=13564728 James Corbett I'm watching Joost on a 2Mb DSL connection in Ireland and have had few problems with freezing or pixellation. I really love the service and am lucky enough to have my eclectic tastes well represented by their choice in channels. 2007-05-08T11:54:25.630+02:00 2007-05-08T11:54:25.630+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=649888&comment_id=12676764 James Corbett I'm off to Berlin for a few days next week. Want me to do any advance scouting... like for an Irish pub or two? ;-) 2007-04-23T22:39:23.160+02:00 2007-04-23T22:39:23.160+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=617056&comment_id=11880475 James Corbett (EirePreneur) Very little to add to Jason and Matt's astute observations. Personally all I need is a chair, desk, power, wifi and copious amounts of coffee. Throw in my laptop, mobile phone and headset and that's my office. A choice between open plan and more private walled off areas would be good as I could see myself choosing between both according to my work load and tasks. A cosy cafe suitable for networking as, of course that's a major part of it all. On the admin side I guess there should be a wiki, shared calendar or even a good old-fashioned physical notice board for announcements to the other people in the building about what coworkers will be visiting so that they can introduce themselves and go for a coffee. As regards payment an hourly charge would be ideal from my point of view as I'd probably be paying short term visits most of the time. But from the point of view of cowork location twinning and playing host to international coworkers there should also be weekly 'packages' available. 2007-04-11T01:04:27.747+02:00 2007-04-11T01:04:27.747+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=560495&comment_id=10712133 James Corbett Woah, didn't of that - webographically too. That means twitter could replace one of those dime-a-dozen 'group swarming' websites that allow you to discuss webpages with other visitors/viewers. Hmmm.... 2007-03-20T14:08:59.652+01:00 2007-03-20T14:08:59.652+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=560495&comment_id=10629909 James Corbett Paul, that's an excellent point - there's definitely a much more local feel to twittering (for me at least) than blogging. In fact I found it very interesting to hear some of the people in the coworking community looking for ways to 'tune into' geographically based coworkers when they travel. I think when Twitter introduces groups it will provide an ideal means of facilitating that. I expect we'll initially see an 'Irish' group on Twitter and then more local ones as the number of users goes up - Waterford, the People's Republic of Cork, etc ;-) 2007-03-18T20:35:23.696+01:00 2007-03-18T20:35:23.696+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=529270&comment_id=9838870 James Corbett Paul, mind if I add you to a list of Irish 'coworkers'/web-workers (ie. freelancers, homeworkers, startuppers, etc)? 2007-03-07T00:27:00.137+01:00 2007-03-07T00:27:00.137+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=501920&comment_id=9177228 James Corbett "I hope my comment didn’t read as a criticism." No, not at all Conor, and your post is spot on. Looks like we'll have Evert Bopp along now as well so that makes three so far. :) 2007-02-24T14:58:44.550+01:00 2007-02-24T14:58:44.550+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=501920&comment_id=9148668 James Corbett "However I think a critical aspect of Saul’s announcement is that it comes from an investor." Very true, but knowing how slow Irish VCs are to come down from their lofty perches I'll be happy to get the entrepreneurs going along first and then putting it up to the VCs to come join us :-) Looks like Jan Blanchard and myself, so far, are going to kick-off the Limerick coffee mornings next Thursday. 2007-02-23T23:47:31.332+01:00 2007-02-23T23:47:31.332+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=500872&comment_id=9126008 James Corbett Great idea. I'm proposing the lobby of the Clarion Hotel in Limerick which is the most comfortable venue with free wifi that I know of in the city. 2007-02-23T16:47:42.739+01:00 2007-02-23T16:47:42.739+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=497530&comment_id=9054102 James Corbett Did I miss the announcement of the new logo? I liked the original from the start but have to say the new one is even better. 2007-02-22T12:05:24.972+01:00 2007-02-22T12:05:24.972+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=460253&comment_id=8308163 James Corbett Totally Agree Anne. So much so that when I wrote about Twitter I said it brings telepathy to the web :-) 2007-02-07T16:10:03.633+01:00 2007-02-07T16:10:03.633+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=385371&comment_id=5659686 James Corbett Would you believe I'd never seen an episode of 24 until 6 months ago when I decided, on a whim, to get the first series on DVD. Last Thursday I ordered series 5... yes I'm seriously hooked. This is coming from someone who hardly watches any TV, Lost being the only other serial I follow. And I can't stand the soaps! 2007-01-07T22:52:20.920+01:00 2007-01-07T22:52:20.920+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=279706&comment_id=3408341 James Corbett "They’re all experts. They’re all prominent bloggers." Good list Damien, I was only aware of Mary's and Karlin's blogs previously. Mary's is a great blog and working its way quickly into my expert list. Karlin's *was* a great blog and would have been top of my list except it's been March since she posted to it (has she moved somewhere?). Remember I said - "I don’t know Irish female experts who blog in the areas that I’m interested in." - and on a cursory glance it looks like some of these don't blog in areas of my interest. So, I still not might be adding them to *my* experts list, simply because I don't feel qualified to judge anyone an expert in an area I don't have a good understanding of myself. That, naturally, is not to say that they aren't experts or that they won't make your Expert List and the list's of others. BTW girls, I'm subscribed to dozens of male bloggers who won't make my Experts List! Anyway, good to have some new Irish subs. 2006-11-17T17:20:50.087+01:00 2006-11-17T17:20:50.087+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=183810&comment_id=2074406 James Corbett "It’s a widget to display OPML data" This is one of the deceptive things about Grazr. It looks like a widget at first glance but by clicking on the Launch button at top right it launches into a full size window, with a variety of control buttons, views and an address bar. This transforms it into something comparable to a full feed aggregator, although the philosphy of feed grazing is different to that of feed aggregating. A grazer is intended more for glancing at a large dynamic collections of feeds without subscribing. Disclosure: I'm on the advisory board to Grazr Corp. 2006-09-19T10:49:32.067+02:00 2006-09-19T10:49:32.067+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=EirePreneur&conv=87800&comment_id=1274383 James Corbett juz a tst 2006-07-21T14:10:21.856+02:00 2006-07-21T14:10:21.856+02:00