Damien Mulley

I’m in Lisbon, thanks to HP. They must have spiked the water because I enjoyed a 3 hour talk about ink cartridges yesterday. Some really sound HP Ireland people here too. Now off to a talk on how to test printers and compare multiple brands.

Lisbon itself is unimpressive and a little grotty. More later.

What’s lighter than fluffy I wonder? 3 clips from the movie The Legend of 1900. Second and Third must be watched together.

Guns N’ Roses – Only Women Bleed (Alice Cooper Cover)

Guns N’ Roses – Patience and Imagine mixed together

Jesus Jones – International Bright Young Thing

Chemical Brothers – Do It Again. Their new album is the best in years. Very summery.

IBM announced earlier this week on a conference call that they’re going all Web 2.0 and social with their Enterprise offerings. Blogs, wikis, collaboration spaces for staff and customers, social bookmarking (called dogears) and a few more bits and pieces. They’ll also be releasing mash-up software for Enterprises. Are they doing what Microsoft should have been doing since Ray Ozzie came on-board?

• IBM Lotus Connections — the industry’s first integrated social software for business features a suite of five Web 2.0-based components. They include the most popular social networking uses such as: social bookmarking and tagging, rich directories including skills and projects, activity dashboards, collaboration among like-minded communities, and web logs or blogging. By making it faster and easier to find experts across the organisation, bring together diverse teams around a common point of interest and access information previously qualified by others, Lotus Connections helps people save time and avoid duplication in their daily work.
• IBM Lotus Quickr — an open standards-based team collaboration tool that helps teams inside and outside a company firewall easily and effectively work together across geographies, work styles and operating systems. It offers a rich set of team collaboration capabilities, including blogs, wikis and team space templates supporting a variety of business processes to get a collaboration project up and running quickly.
• IBM WebSphere Commerce — the industry-leading commerce software incorporates new Web 2.0 capabilities to more closely align with consumers’ natural shopping experiences and help decrease the incidence of abandoned shopping carts through rich and contextual shopping features. The new features in WebSphere Commerce Web 2.0 Store Solution include rich Internet applications such as an interactive catalog to enable shoppers to narrow down choices by filtering products or services with attributes most important to them.

  Additionally, this store solution includes a single-page checkout to let shoppers view the real-time impact of intended purchases and then recalculate the cost of alternate products and shipping choices to help speed up the buying-decision process. These Web 2.0 capabilities are changing the on-line shopping metaphor from static, catalogue-driven experiences to dynamic, customer-driven ones.

And now for the mashups:

IBM is previewing an Info 2.0 suite of integrated products that enables organisations to easily catalogue, combine, transform and remix any type of data and content by drawing on the industry’s widest variety of enterprise data sources and a vast array of Web data and content.

If this continues Scrapblog is deffo going to be acquired by another company.

Casiotone for the painfully alone – Live outside in Paris

Cold War Kids – We used to vacation (live and acoustic and out of synch!)

Meat Beat Manifesto – Edge of no control

I just got emailed a pdf scan of a letter that has been posted to me via a legal firm on behalf of Sky Handling Partners. They have requested I take down the two posts about Sky Handling Partners.

Note: They have not threatened litigation and have not asked for an apology.

It seems Sky Handling Partners have called the Gardai too. They also chastised me on my use of bad language. Yes, really! How many people have ever seen a solicitor’s letter than contains the word cunt at least three times? ME! I’m sorry but I can’t post the letter on my blog, thus why I’m giving you all the highlights.

I will not be taking the blog posts down.

This is my first takedown notice. I’m framing it and replacing my framed copy of Joan Burton in her pink suit with that on the shrine. Sorry Joan, the fickle tastes of bloggers. It was nice though. Really.

Pranksters put a mushroom cloud into a weather report.

Vote for John.

Nice Charity Links meme going about. Add some charity links to your blog posts.

Check out cork band Hooray for Humans.

Over a million people are on fibre in the States and they are still beating themselves up for poor broadband penetration. Heh.

Via Una Los Campesinos – ‘You! Me! Dancing!’. It’s very Dinosaur Jr. in my music mind.

If you’ve not seen the last episode of the Sopranos, do not watch this spoof with Hilary and Bill Clinton. Now if only Bertie had this sense of fun:

My Bloody Valentine – Sometimes (Cut to Lost in Translation)

Two young brothers do a cover of “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight ” by Postal Service. Fantastic