ON THE WAY back from the 2006 Net Visionaries Awards, I was struck by how the evening was more about brands than people. It's not a detraction, just a reality of running a glitz event when you need to accommodate the reach of the brands who pony up to pay for exposure. This is something Damien Mulley needs to consider when ramping up the Irish Blog Awards because the more buzz you give to an evening with friends, the more it normally costs. And if you tap into company money, you have to spotlight a company brand.
There was a harmony in the air among the hundreds who gathered for the Net Visionaries in Killiney. By the way, true visionaries read this blog. There were no losers. It was hard to pick out the gate crashers because they didn't have a seat during the awards or the dinner. Only a few were hanging in the wings, clutching free wine, watching the proceedings. It's very difficult to crash a seated affair nowadays. We actually haven't paid for our seats yet. We'll return to Killiney Castle because it was one of the best evening outs we've ever enjoyed in Dublin.
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WHILE AT THE Net Visionary Awards in Dublin, my notes of the evening include some interesting things worth tucking away for future cross-reference. Along with Stacey (shown at left) and Tanja, we'll have a podcast that encapsulates the evening from our Tipperary perspective.
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AN ITALIAN, A SCOTSMAN and a Chinese fellow are hired at a construction site.
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MEDIA-CONVERT offers free online conversions of media files between various formats. You select input/output formats and submit a web form to start the conversion. The input format can be detected automatically and file sizes up to 50 Mb are allowed. You can also enter the address of any website to automatically create a screenshot.
You can do this from a mobile phone. I wish I could convert MSV to MP3 with the system. The WAP uploader for transferring files directly to mobile phones via a generated URL looks like http://media-convert.com/wap
(code=abcdef). We're playing with it to convert a backbeat of commonplace noises that you can hear on Underway in Ireland #55 [18.1 MB 96 kbps MP3 file] into a ringtone.
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