Category: Technology

[Via Tom] Yahoo have launched a directory of podcasts, and it looks much nicer than iTunes. Indeed I still can’t understand why Irish podcasts figure so highly in the top 10 podcasts, or is that just because I am browsing from Ireland. Does Strawberry Alarm Clock really have that many listeners?

I hate SMS type language, I use predictive text, which is what all smart people do. Obviously. 🙂

HBO are trying to poison the biggest filesharing tool on the Internet: HBO is actively poisoning the BitTorrent downloads of the new show Rome. In addition to an older tactic of offering bogus downloads that never complete, HBO is now obstructing the downloads offered by other people. BitTorrent downloads are peer-to-peer, but the peers are…

Toolbars? Java, JRE and Google… Well and Office too…at some point. And they are not pitting themselves against Microsoft. Yet.

An admission. I rip my music CD’s using Apple iTunes and put the songs on my iPod nano. Hark it is illegal to do so in Ireland under the Copyright Act 2000. I guess this means jail for me. Will anyone come visit?

Speculation is rampant. It could mean any number of things. My money would be on an Office-type suite, but who’s to say. I guess now that I’m a student again I don’t have the money to bet! Google could be launching its own operating system based on Sun’s Solaris or Java. More on this theory…

Via Tom I found the new Yahoo thing that allows me to explore different sites within a domain name. So obviously I checked my own, as you do. I just can’t believe that there are almost 15,000 pages and almost 60,000 inward links, that can’t be right, can it?

Not sure what search engine to use. Try two together. [Via Steve]

Adam Beecher, who I think I know through boards.ie reading, is in BT Ireland’s bad books, due to this website. It looks like he got coverage recently in the Business Post too. I have a feeling ICANN will side with Beecher, and when he says: “I have as much right to say that ‘BT Ireland…

Robert Cringely has a very interesting piece on how Google Adwords might be working. Another reason to think maybe Google are not so nice afterall I have no idea what the heck is happening here, but my friendly reader, who makes his living from this stuff, has a theory. He believes the Google AdWords algorithm…