#“Business Boot Camp. Sign-Up Now.”

#“Keynoir Launches”

#“Oi Nokia. I’m still waiting for my free Ovi Maps”

You announced free Turn by Turn Voice Navigation in Ovi Maps on Jan 21st for your newest phones but hilariously not for your “flagship” device cos it didn’t have enough space on C:. 

#“Demand Led Innovation Workshops”

I’ll be honest, I see the word “innovation” and I instantly picture Dilbert’s PHB telling them to leverage synergy. It is a word that has effectively become meaningless. But when it is allied to action, then I’ll take another look.

I was contacted a while back by the guys in Innovator.ie about an Innovation Workshop but I mis-read the intent and thought it was just for those in the Civil Security Sector. It was only when someone else clarified it for me that I realised what it was all about and it looks very interesting indeed.

This is the language that caught my eye:

 What you and your colleagues will get from this workshop:

• Bring new innovation practices into your business

• Create sustainable business models for generating new revenue

• Rapidly amend existing offerings to tap into new markets

• Take skills learned to easily prototype and create new products and offerings

The workshops are two days long with a gap between the days as follows:

• Newry - March 23rd & March 30th
• Dungannon - April 15th & April 22nd
• Cork - April 20th & April 27th
• Galway - May 6th & May 13th

They are also not expensive. €250 and 2 staff can attend.

#“Teic.ie \u00bb Xperia X10 to be available on O2 next month”

#“The Daily Mash - MASTERCHEF UPGRADED TO CLASS B DRUG”

#“How useless is Google Buzz? This useless.”

In the latest of my tough love posts about Buzz (tagline “We’re moany bitches cos we care”), I take a screencast of what was displayed to me when I checked Buzz this morning:

6 weeks later and they still think this is acceptable.

TURN OFF THE GODDAMMED EXTERNAL FEEDS IN BUZZ NOW.

Thanks sweeties.

In other Buzz news, I discovered last night that someone with a clue in Google turned on the ability for those with non-2.x versions of Android to access it. It remains the best way to use Buzz by far. The reality is Buzz should have been launched as a mobile-only product. If all the focus had gone there, Foursquare and Gowalla would be crapping themselves instead of laughing themselves to sleep every night.

Or if they’d had some joined-up thinking, it would have been the address book in Android from day 1. Ye know, what we all thought they bought Jaiku for.

Apologies to @interactivemark for using his Friendfeed stream import in Buzz to highlight the problem.

#“Save a packet on O2 Mobile broadband. Cancel and re-subscribe”

I've had O2 mobile broadband for something like 2 years. I haven't used it much at all in the past few months and cancelled it a few weeks back. It was costing 30 p.m. for 10GB.

#“Colm O’Gorman’s response to Ratzinger’s \“it was all someone else’s fault\“”

#“Quick conoroneill.net Stattos”

I’ve been blogging since 2001 and have long since lost any interest in stats on my blog posts. I never check non-biz related stats. But for interest’s sake I’ve been monitoring conoroneill.net since it is a brand-new blog.

I dunno if these stats are good, bad or indifferent for a new blog that is 99% promoted via Twitter and Facebook links. The one that jumps out at me is that whilst Twitter generates 18% of the visits, Facebook only generates 4%. That’s a reflection of the much smaller number of people I’m connected to on FB and their mainly non-tech demographic.

So according to Posterous since Feb 3rd 2010:

• 102 Posts
• 2,220 site views
• Most viewed post had 690 views (mainly cos Damien Fluffed it): How do you get your Irish Web Business News
• Second most viewed post had 656 views (ditto re the fluffing): Huge Mistake by Google with Earth on Android
• Third most viewed post had 579 views (un-Fluffed):  JoliCloud not what I expected

And according to Google Analytics from Feb 16th to Mar 18th:

• 1,313 visits
• 1,608 PVs
• Direct = 51%, Twitter = 18%, Google = 9%, Posterous = 4% and Facebook = 4%