Today's Fresh Blogs...

• ZDNet's Dennis Howlett Makes U Turn in Second Life

  Published: August 13, 2007, 12:16 pm

  Tags: 2nd Life Metaverse, Community Connecting, Marketing For Non Marketers, New Media Social Media, Resources, Social Networking, Tech, Appearance, Avatar, Dennis Howlett, Geek Meets, Metaversed, Noobies, Prefessional, Second Life, Zdnet

  in Irregular Enterprise ZDNet.com. Dennis liked what he saw, writing that"....Second Life provides a viable meeting alternative to a traditional conference, especially for those who are time starved but want to discuss a single issue. (Aren't we all?) The combination of IRC style chat and live voice, a well constructed location and

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: -1

• Vulnerabilities in Google mail

  Published: September 28, 2007, 5:18 am

  Tags: Technology Gizmos, Blogspot, Bullseye, Gmail, Google, Hackers, Holes, Mail Theft, Zdnet

  Bullseye on Google: Hackers expose holes in GMail, Blogspot, Search Appliance by ZDNet’s Ryan Naraine — In the past few days, there have been multiple disclosures of security vulnerabilies in a wide range of Google products, including a persistent e-mail theft issue affecting the widely used GMail service. Share This

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Guiness and Mashups - Mashup Camp comes to the Hopstore

  Published: October 25, 2007, 11:16 am

  Tags: Mashup, Podcast, Irishblogs, Fluffy, Dublin, Technical, Webservices, Amazon, Mashupcamp, Interviews, Podleaders, Zdnet

  interviews, podleaders,

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Any questions for David Berlind?

  Published: October 26, 2007, 5:15 am

  Tags: Mashup, Podcast, Irishblogs, Technical, Webservices, Amazon, Mashupcamp, Interviews, Podleaders, Zdnet, Technology, Fluffy, Dublin

  is the executive editor at ZDNet. David is also one of the founders of Mashup Camp. What is Mashup Camp? According to the About page Mashup Camp is: an unconference-style event that’s dedicated to bringing together the Internet software mashup community for a face-to-face collaborative meetup where new relationships are formed, old

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Mashup Camp in Dublin & Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin

  Published: October 28, 2007, 8:13 pm

  Tags: Podcast, Irishblogs, Events, Cool Stuff, Mashup, Mashupcamp, Interviews, Podleaders, Zdnet, Technology, Fluffy, Web 2 0, Dublin, Technical, Webservices

  interviews, podleaders, ZDNet, Technology, fluffy, Web 2.0, dublin, Technical,

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Upcoming interesting tech/marketing events in Ireland

  Published: October 30, 2007, 8:09 pm

  Tags: Events, Cool Stuff, Podcast, Irishblogs, Web 2 0, Interviews, Podleaders, Mashup, Zdnet, Technology

  podleaders, Mashup, ZDNet,

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Lonely Canadian shocked to get $84,000 phone bill

  Published: December 13, 2007, 5:53 pm

  Tags: Money, Canada, Zdnet, Cell Phones

  WOW! What the fuck? A Canadian oil field worker, stunned to get an almost $84,000 cell phone bill, has had the charges reduced to about $3,400, but is still fighting them. Piotr Staniaszek, a 22-year-old oil and gas well tester in rural northwest Alberta, became a figure of international media attention this week when his father went to the

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• How to Generate 100s of Backlinks in Minutes

  Published: March 25, 2008, 5:44 pm

  Tags: Marketing And Promotion, Microsoft Windows Xp And Vista, Technology, Zdnet

  comment. The comment box on ZDNet looks normal enough until you click “Add your opinion”. Congradulations ZDNet, you have a captcha worse than Typepad (and that’s saying a lot). No wonder the conversation is leaving the blogosphere. Footnote I don’t disagree with Ed’s piece. I have my own hate fest on with the

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• I'll Miss You, Russell Shaw

  Published: March 17, 2008, 11:12 am

  Tags: Lifestyles, Russell Shaw, Zdnet

  a fanatical blogger at the ZDNet family of publications. More than once he was kind enough to mention my writing with enthusiasm... Visit the site for the rest of the story!

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Microsoft bought Yahoo, according to new Microsoft book [Predictions]

  Published: May 20, 2008, 8:00 pm

  Tags: Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft, Microsoft 2 0, Predictions, Yahoo, Zdnet

  a sure thing? That was when ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley must have put the finishing touches on her new book, Microsoft 2.0. On page 4, Foley writes: "This is a book on Microsoft's next chapter. It's going to be an unpredictable one, as Microsoft's purchase of Yahoo earlier this year makes evident." Committing the purchase to ink on paper was

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• ZDNet: 'iPhone running Windows XP'? Fail

  Published: June 18, 2008, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Citrix, Vnc, Windows, Zdnet

  understand, but after seeing ZDNet Australia's headline, I was thinking something completely different. On stage, Citrix reps showed the iPhone connecting to (and controlling) a Windows desktop, which ZDNet took to mean that someone actually installed Windows XP on an iPhone. Yeah, no. The demo was part of a presentation titled Directions in

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• ZDNet Mac Pro and Xserve overclocking tool

  Published: June 29, 2008, 5:00 pm

  Tags: Overclocking, Zdnet Clock Tool, Zdnetclocktool

  that the German division of ZDNet has released the ZDNet Clock tool for OS X.Using the ZDNet Clock tool Mac Pro and Xserve owners (and those only) can boost the processor, front side bus, and memory frequency resulting in a not insignificant "free" performance gain. It should be noted that overclocking puts a strain on the hardware and should be

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0

• Crazy ZDNet Team Shows You How To Create BSOD Manually

  Published: August 21, 2008, 8:51 pm

  Tags: Software, Bsod, Crazy, Madness, Software, Windows, Zdnet

  definition, then the guys at ZDnet AU are a textbook example of the crazy. Not only have they discovered a way of manually creating the BSOD, they're actually sharing instructions on how to do it on their site. The hack involves a little bit of registry editing, but is fairly easy to follow should you be equally insane. Of course, there is

  Comments (0)   Blog link Rating: 0