Debra Chrapaty, Microsoft’s Corp VP of Global Foundation Services was in Dublin yesterday for a quick pitstop. She’s a great speaker, full of energy and intelligence. Here’s a really nice Channel 9 interview she did last year.
Enough of the ads! Grr.. here’s another gem. A leaked promo for Samsung’s SOUL phone. Love the ingenuity.
I’m playing with the site Paint That Shit Gold, a site that you can use to create graffiti captures of sites on the web, produced to promo hip-hop group, Atmosphere’s new album. I hope Tom doesn’t mind, I’m having a little fun with graffiti. Yeah, I set the sound to mute after a while, but it’s a fun way to play with your favourite sites.
It’s a pretty simple idea, really. Can’t Irish firms do simple little web apps like this, to add a little fun to their product launches? Draw web users in with fun ideas and grab their attention.
Blogging will be back to normal tomorrow evening. On a bit of a break from it.
In the meantime, drop by Damien’s and see how the Data Protection Commissioner’s office can’t protect its landmark yearly report on its website. Pre-publicating a document on a site before release is dicey… You never know who is snooping around.
You gotta love the way Twitter melts at the most inopportune of moments. It’s like your senile uncle that gets lost in the ladies lav and wants to do knickers inspections at your wedding. Here’s Twitter turning Japanese.. No, not like that.
How cool is Twitterfone? So very, very cool. Imagine you are out and about. Perhaps you are driving and you want to send a quick Twitter message to say you are running late or to remind someone of a dinner date? You can’t use your fingers to compose that tweet. What to do, what to do? You Twitterfone using the handsfree. Leave a sub-15 seconds message for the price of a national call (in this case!) and almost automagically it’s translated into text and rebroadcast on Twitter using your Twitter credentials. A fonetweet is posted. Easy, peasy and super cool to use.
Twitterfone launched today in the US, UK and Ireland.It’s in strict alpha mode, so it’s super hard to get an invite at the moment. Twitterfone supremo, Pat Phelan of Cubic Telecom says that Twitterfone will add support for a country a week to its service.
Twitterfone is a combination of the technology at work behind the scenes - VOX routes the calls, ZONG manages the mobile transaction, MAXroam takes care of the telephony magic under the hood and Dial2Do does the voice-to-text translation. All working together in a really cool, compelling package.
The Twitterfone team is comprised of Pat Phelan, Sean O Sullivan, Ivan MacDonald, David Marcus and Florian Seroussi. And the Twitterfone site is another stone-cold Sabrina classic. Very cool. Best of luck, Twitterfone.
Edit: A minor correction!
Via Michael Gartenburg, I find a link to Jonny Brentwood’s Technobabble Top 50 Analysts on Twitter post. How many do you follow? I’m a big fan of Michael. Who’s your favourite on the list?
Oh, and I must mention Valleywag’s Twitter rules. I’ve broken most of them. You’ve broken them too.
Overnight, Microsoft has announced that it is walking away from acquiring Yahoo. Microsoft was reportedly offering Yahoo $33 a share, with Yahoo holding out for $37.
News has been melting wires state-side.
Disclosure: I work for Microsoft.
A very cool New Scientist video of a robot that reassembles itself when torn apart. Via Marc.
Sick of the weenie flash memory space you use to augment your Eee ultraportable? Want to forgo using the ‘ickle trackpad for navigation? Lookee what Ebay has on it’s books - an inventive hacker has spliced together an Eee with 40gigs of solid space drive capacity and a touchscreen. It runs WinXP.
It still has the default 900Mhz Celeron processor, so we’re not talking space-age performance. More a talking piece. An expensive talking piece with a Buy It Now tag of $2,199.00 and shipping of $25.