Gary Vaynerchuk, lunatic or visionary

You gotta pick, I love the guy.
Why does he remind me soo much of Joe Pesci?

Free business idea

I used to do this when I first started blogging, I had a Eureka moment last week especially since I now spend so much time on planes.
I have checked with a few friends and none of us have heard of it so its over to you, if you want to do it take it away
Hedge […]

Wedsnesday push, its LouderVoice

So today its the turn of Conor O Neill’s LouderVoice
What can you say that hasn’t be said already, well beside the product Conor is one of the real Irish heads with a good word for most and a very sharing attitude, now onto the product.
I am a user and a fan, out simply it allows […]

Fring Brings Skype to iPhone

This is a real serious development for the Fring team lead by my buddy Boaz Zimmerman,an email from Gil Regev yesterday asking me to test had to be ignored for 24hrs due to travel, I posted today that the iPhone was going under the hammer for a Samsung Omnia i900 but this has earned it […]

Have O2 withdrawn all upgrades?

Well its one of those weeks, another one where an Irish mobile company again leaves its customers hanging.
Conor has the skinny
“When I contacted the company I was given a statement which confirmed it had reviewed eligibility criteria for mobile phone upgrades. I was told this was standard practice within the industry to review and […]

PhoneTag CEO James Siminoff

Its fairly unusual for me to meet someone and think you have known them all your life, I met James Siminoff of PhoneTag in San Francisco recently and could have stayed talking to him for the three days.
An opinionated ex phonecard guy, kind of sounds familiar :-), seriously James is a die in the wool […]

25 most influential people on the web, where’s Michael Arrington?

In what is one of the most obvious omissions I have ever seen, BusinessWeek omitted Techcrunch editor Michael Arrington from their 25 most influential people of the web.
The writer of this must have been sleeping for the year or else something is seriously up at BusinessWeek.
Check out the list, its totally nuts, no Arrington, No […]

My cup runneth over boy

Well as the say in Ballyphehane
My cup runneth over boy
September has definitely been the best month of the year for me/us
MAXroam launched V2 and September has been extraordinary.
We have been short listed for Twitterfone in the category Best new web application at The Irish Web awards, I will miss this one as I am […]

Skype hits the one billion download mark

Skype has passed its one billionth download today.
Its an astounding number when stacked against how long it took to hit 500 million (4 years), the second 500 million was done in under two.
To mark the occasion I logged on for the first time in, well, its been a while, grabbed a headset and decided to […]

Are Golden Spiders tracking The Irish Web awards nominees?

I got a very strange email from the team behind PR at The Golden Spiders today. I don’t want to embarrass anyone so will only post an excerpt.
“Due to demand, the deadline for the Eircom Golden Spider’s Awards has been extended until the 30th of September; this will be the absolute final deadline for submissions”
So […]