Inside View

Comparing Jaiku to Twitter

AS JYRI ENGESTROM, front man for Jaiku, showed Google's business development team an inside view of Jaiku, Pat Phelan asked the Jaiku community to explain why he should migrate from Twitter to Jaiku. The resultant commentary provides an ...

Loadsa Love for Adobe

YOU CAN CITE several reasons that the developer community loves Flash but most people look no farther than YouTube where Shockwave powers the biggest boat of spontaneous content ever produced. Infomaniacs I know have hurdled the podcasti...

When Social Networking Starts to Choke

LIKE EUAN SEMPLE, I wonder what will happen to people who first tried online social networking through the front door of Facebook. My impression, gained after trying the waters of Facebook for the past seven months, is that the Facebook ...

Mini Reviews on Twitter

THERE ARE TIMES I am so upset about poor quality service or about buying an inferior product that I just want to scream. Now I focus my frustrations by sending my comments directly to LouderVoice, an Irish website that is “all about revi...

What is e-readiness?

ACCORDING TO THE ECONOMIST Intelligence Unit (EIU), "e-readiness is the state of play of a country’s information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and the ability of its consumers, businesses and governments to use ICT t...

My first two hours with @RoamResearch

I USED A TIMER to allow myself two hours for my first hands-on routine with Roam Research, a note-taking and personal knowledge management service that I used to produce this InsideView.ie blog post. I'm confident that if I could save ...

Updating ORCID

I HAVE HUNDREDS of newspaper clippings and Moleskine journals that must be folded into my ORCID profile. So I am using up to an hour a day culling old records and inserting materials into my online researcher profile. https://orcid....