Damien Mulley

First Tuesday National Telecoms Forum 2006

‘Convergence and Consolidation in the Telecommunications Sector’

Date: Wednesday March 8th
Venue: The Burlington Hotel, Upper Leeson Street, Dublin 4
Registration: Between 8.30am-9am
Event: 9am-1pm including light lunch
Admission: Euro100 + VAT (Eur121)
Registration: Please email admin@investnet.ie (Registration)

Presentations from:

Shane O’Neill, Chief Strategy Officer – http://www.lgi.com/ (UGC Europe)

Martin Varsavsky, Telecoms Entrepreneur, Founder and CEO Fon – http://www.fon.com (Fon) To be confirmed

David McRedmond, Commercial Director – http://www.eircom.ie (Eircom)

Speaker TBC – http://www.smarttelecom.ie (Smart Telecom)

Charlie Ardagh, Sales and Marketing Director – http://www.magnet.ie (Magnet Networks)

Broadband Leadership Round Table (Private Lunch):

Theme: “New Thinking for Achieving Full Broadband Penetration�.

Participations in this breakout session will be limited to the first 10 places. Companies participating will pay an additional fee for the cost of outputting a white paper from the session.

Toyota Jeeps Rock Top Gear really put this through its paces.

Edit: Seems that the vid was taken off Google Video. Here it is in two parts from YouTube:

Before I watch the latest episode of Battlestar I thought I’d get these bits out of the way:

Via Philipp Lenssen comes maybe the next Million Dollar homepage style idea that doesn’t quite suck like the others. Stuff and me has a Aric Mckeown take a pic of him with your product and it is displayed on his front page for 24 hours and then it goes into his archives and I think goes into some rotating banners ads too. It costs you $15. Doesn’t sound so bad really if the site gains a lot of traffic. Then comes the bit I like. Like Rocketboom, he chooses what the ad will be.

Your suggestions may be used directly in the ad, as a jumping off point for creating the ad, or discarded for something more fun or practicle.

Fake tattoo sleeves. Interesting, but why buy one of these when you can instead go through 14 hours of pain and lots of blood and blow a grand? Much more fun.

Kevin burton points to a great web traffic analysis tool. It visualises you visitors and makes into a Sims like construct. This rocks. Visitorville is looking for salespeople in Ireland. Check out the clever ad which obviously spotted my IP and then generated the ad.

Tut tut Tower.

Techcrunch mentions 3Bubbles. Livechat on your blog using AJAX or some ilk. I don’t think a chat window for a blog post will work. Blogs are still slightly out of synch with realtime and that’s a good thing. It allows people to read, reflect, reflect more, google some thoughts and then make a post. In a way the quality of discourse would go down whereas the quantity of noise would go up.

A chat window on a blog and not a blog post might work but people hit my blog at totally different times and since Google brings so much of my traffic and to posts a few months or years old, what is the point in having a chatroom for these posts? People would need to be sitting on my site all day long for it to be useful.

Here’s a suggestion: Have people agree on one chat channel per topic and have that channel shared between numerous blogs. That might work a tad bit better. This might not be too bad idea for the Irish Bloggersphere with an Irishblogs General chat channel and a IrishBlogs Politics Channel but even at that I think there should be scheduled times where people can drop in and chat about specific topics. Naturally the general chat channel is open 24/7