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100 Web Tools to Enhance Collaboration (Part 1)

It is easy to collaborate with your colleagues around you. What about other people in your PLN? Can you collaborate with 50, 100, 1000 people? “Collaborate”, “Collaborative”, “Collaboration” were the most frequent words I heard last year and I believe it will be more important and popular in this new decade. Here is my first [...]

Social Media – The Ultimate Outlet

Social media is that whose goal is to be distributed via social interaction. It can be defined as any type of media that is created by the public as opposed to that produced by professional reporters or journalists or other professionals. The term was first used in 2004 and has risen in prominence since. It [...]

How I Watch RTE from Outside Ireland

RTE stands for Raidio Teilifis Eireann and is the public service broadcaster for Ireland. It’s actually one of the oldest broadcasters around, they have been operating continuously since 1961. The Irish Government appoint a board to run the station, it is very near to Irelands version of the BBC.
It is certainly why it [...]

Can I Watch BBC Iplayer Outside the UK

If you have ever tried to access the majority of the wonderful BBC Iplayer content outside the UK then you will have certainly been disappointed. The reason is that the BBC use a system called geotargeting to restrict the content of it’s web site, outside the UK, it simply doesn’t work.
It’s a well used [...]

The Future of Real Time Search – Twoogle?

So far my musings have centred on Twitter purely because it is the most utilised example of the real-time search concept in action. There are plenty of other people at the party but they draw heavily on Twitter’s functionality.
Google’s own Eric Schmidt has enthusiastically discussed partnering with Twitter by integrating Twitter feeds into the Google [...]