Cormac Moylan

Hi, my name is Cormac and this is my blog. On the web circa July 2006.

Entries Tagged as 'Web 2.0'

Do you want an invite to Mash?

September 24th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Last night I received an invite to Yahoo’s new social network Mash. The concept is nothing new. It’s Yahoo’s version of MySpace/Bebo/Facebook.
The one pretty interesting thing about Mash is the way in which you invite your friends. It’s fairly clever actually! Instead of me sending you an email with a link to create your [...]

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Tags: Web 2.0 · Websites

So I’m on Facebook…

July 25th, 2007 · No Comments

…and I have to say it’s a lot nicer than I expected.
I can’t stand Bebo or MySpace. Both are full of spam and kids and annoying flash flare and are just annoying. But Facebook is really really nice. The big advantage it has over Bebo & MySpace is that it’s a closed social system [...]

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Tags: Personal · Web 2.0 · Websites

Create a musical quilt with Last.fm widgets

May 12th, 2007 · 4 Comments

(I had to remove the musical quilt because it was breaking my blog )
What you’re seeing above is a musical quilt based on my Last.fm profile. It’s pretty good eye candy, isn’t it?
Last.fm have released some widgets which allow you to embed flash candy easily onto your blog. You can setup a personal radio [...]

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Tags: Music · Web 2.0 · Wordpress & Blogs

Google Talk available on Mac via Firefox

March 24th, 2007 · 20 Comments

Yes! Finally it has arrived in some shape or form.
Since my conversion to Apple from the dark overlord that is Microsoft I have missed programs such as Winamp, uTorrent and Google Talk. But Google Talk is now available to me on the Mac via on their recently released Gadgets.
So what does this gadget do? Here [...]

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Tags: Firefox · Google · Software · Technology · Web 2.0

HitTail - Keyword search tool, get in for free while it’s still in beta

March 7th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Michele has posted about a handy looking keyword tracker utility on his blog. It’s called HitTail
So what is it?
HitTail reveals in real-time the least utilized, most promising keywords hidden in the Long Tail of your natural search results. We present these terms to you as suggestions that when acted on can boost the natural search [...]

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Tags: Monetisation · Online Advertising & Marketing · Web 2.0 · Wordpress & Blogs

Is Google Adsense evolving to incorporate RSS news feeds?

March 5th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I was reading thru the Adsense Blog when I came across an article on ‘Enhancing your site with Google Search Results‘. The blog post is about a new Ajax based RSS reader widget type of thing which can display one of three things on any webpage, news, video and local search. The widget can display [...]

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Tags: Google · Web 2.0 · Wordpress & Blogs