http://fireglo.eu >.O Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:10:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Garter says that microblogging is in the period of technology trigger which is defined as "The first phase of a hype cycle is the "technology trigger" or breakthrough, product launch or other event that generates significant press and interest."  I agree with this to a certain extent but over the ... http://fireglo.eu/2009/09/02/blogging-buzz/ There's been considerable online buzz for Gangstar online the past few days and if you haven't heard it's the iPhone's GTA 3+ equivalent.  (Link to Gangstar developer here and review here.) I NEVER buy applications EVER but decided to purchase this one as a treat due to my love of GTA.  ... http://fireglo.eu/2009/08/24/gangtar-for-iphone-tip/ Social Networks are a funny old thing that tend to be segregated by geography, age, gender, interests etc. etc.  Perhaps, the biggest factor in choosing a social network platform is your friends and family as they're the people you'll want to link with.  The next factors will probably be the ... http://fireglo.eu/2009/08/24/backtracking-on-bebo/ This post is inspired by a homeless guy who sat next to me on the public bus the whole journey from Cork to Dublin today.  Ugh.  The list are in order of my preference of how I would travel from Dub to Cork and vice versa. 1. Train - most expensive ... http://fireglo.eu/2009/08/10/options-when-travelling-from-cork-to-dublin/ The remainder of the video is here: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JYFGoegh2c[/youtube] (this finale is probably the best part, it's chopped off in Google Video, seek the whole thing online and you shall find.) There was another documentary that was being filmed around the time of the infamous Martin Bashir documentary back in 2002 (the one which ... http://fireglo.eu/2009/08/08/the-other-michael-jackson-documentary/ http://fireglo.eu/2009/08/08/emoji-on-iphone/ is my earlier post about it. Looks like Stephen Fry has found out how to be even cooler. http://fireglo.eu/2009/08/08/stephen-fr-turns-on-emoji/ One of my favourite bands at the moment, as proved by my last.fm profile are 'The Cribs.'  It's kind of hard to describe their music or fit it into a specific genre but whatever magic they created in the past, they're adding to it by introducing Sir Johnny ... http://fireglo.eu/2009/08/08/the-cribs-go-social-apple-at-the-same-time/ Emoji icons are popular in Japanese mobile phones so Apple built them into the iPhone for over there and left out all us westerners.  A few crafty buggers found out ways to unlock all of this, (with jailbreak or no jailbreak) and a few crafty beggers have decided to charge ... http://fireglo.eu/2009/08/08/emoji-on-iphone/ Over the summer I've been working on a project to finish my masters, concerning social media.  If you asked me to define social media off the top of my head or from personal experience I would have said Digg or Twitter but wouldn't have known why as such.  I ... http://fireglo.eu/2009/08/01/what-is-social-media/ [caption id="attachment_910" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="GamesFree MonkeyJump"][/caption] At the moment, #1 in iTunes Ireland is a collection of games called "GamesFree" (link to iTunes) developed by a company called DS Effects.  The games are tripe and presumably the application only obtained it's App Store position by having "Free" in the title. The ... http://fireglo.eu/2009/08/01/iphone-apps-asking-for-location-or-asking-for-trouble/