Pat Phelan: Bits, bytes and telecomsMobile, Roaming and Social Media

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 [...]

I have just arrived back in Ireland and wanted to get my post up Firstly congrats to Yammer, definitely not my choice but congrats anway, I think innovation is not a copy of a pre-existing product but seeing something new. I think the feeling from the floor was Swype but that wasn’t my particular favourite, [...]

Twitter is a conversation tool – I consider it to be a revolution. 140 characters long messages to say it all. No bullshit, no turning around. Just plain instant thinking. I’m a big Twitter fan – that’s no news to you. 1200 followers, 4000 tweets, 700 direct messages…impressive you think. Well no!! Some guys decided [...]

Segala CEO Paul Walsh today announced on Twitter the stealth launch of a new product to be called Wubud. Paul will give away a free MacBook Air when @wubud reaches 5000 followers. This sounds like a great deal to me and you certainly have a better chance of winning than in Jason Calacanis’s recent shout [...]

This post from Jason Calacanis should be standard reading for any newly funded company. I think it makes really interesting reading and contain gems which should be of use to any start-up. My favourites were 3.Buy everyone lunch four days a week and establish a no-meetings policy. Going out for food or ordering in takes [...]