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VOIP Still Kinda Sucks

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Maybe it’s just been a bad week, but VOIP feels like a rare Concorde-esque backward step in technology. In the past week, I’ve had three separate conversations (all, coincidentally, with software startups) interrupted by lousy phone service. In each case, the person I was speaking to blamed their dodgy VOIP service.
We were reasonably happy with […]

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Ireland’s Tuesday Push and a Crazy Face Contest

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Irish blogger Damien Mulley devised a generous and clever means of increasing the visibility of Irish tech companies:
The premise is that everyone talks up a company (if they think it deserves to be) on a particular date. Every second Tuesday at it happens. Everyone tech and non tech alike are encouraged to talk about the […]

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Why I’ve (Mostly) Stopped Worrying About Data Loss

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

Something occurred to me the other day: I hardly ever worry about data loss on Capulet’s computers anymore. Why? Despite having no coherent backup plan, 90% of our work is safe. It lives out there, in the magic Internet cloud:

The majority of our documents are in Google Docs.
For other documents, we’ve probably emailed them to […]

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