Archives for September, 2006

Session 4 and listening to Bernie Goldbach talk about how he dropped 35,000 on a failed startup. George is off finding out how to get Venture Capital, I’m now trying to find out how he would keep it once he got it!!! He makes some very interesting points: You need to watch for the ‘red lights’ [...]

Third round of talks and I’ve gone for SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) while George went to hear about WLAN for sheltered housing projects. Both fascinating topics, but you gotta make a decision! Eoghan McCabe has an excellent knowledge of white and black hat techniques for raising your page ranking.. This is something that I [...]

Second talk under way and I stayed in the Atrium to hear Sabrina Dent talking about “Making Money in Second Life”, while George went off to hear about microformats and OPML. I hadn’t even realised that the game existed until the last couple of weeks when I heard about it on the talk list. It’s [...]

Well it’s 10am and here we go for the first BarCampIreland… Conor welcomes the already sizeable crowd and explains the format of the day. The agenda is filling up fast and we seem to have talks going in 2 rooms for most of the slots today. First up is Simon McGarr talking about “Digital [...]

until BarCamp Ireland in Cork… Really looking forward to it at this point, especially as it means a half day off work and a weekend away for me! The list of attendees is up over 100 now, and there’s a great mix going to be attending – however, from a quick straw poll, only 10% of attendees [...]

Really looking forward to heading to Barcamp Ireland at the end of this month… Hate doing the drive to Cork, but the Hubbie and myself decided to make a weekend of it. After a failed attempt to book a room in the Clarion hotel, I managed to get us into Isaac’s Hotel, which [...]