Sometimes I am just taken aback by the amount of people who follow me on Twitter. It’s not olny a major flattery, but it also shows that you can be a nobody and still have a reasonable following (actually scratch that, I just remembered Tila Tequila exists). So seeing as I want to show my appreciation to my followers, here you are, in all your minature glory.
By the way, if you haven’t yet followed me on Twitter you can do so by going to http://twitter.com/miralize
Ok so this is basically just to share interesting and useful links that I think my readers (thats you) might enjoy or be interested in.
Irelands first Teencamp got underway in Dublin, with @endac and @alancostello setting it up. Unfortunately I couldn’t make it, but I do admire their work theyve done in setting it up. Videos were recorded of the event courtesy of Damien Mulley and others I have yet to find.
;This week Google announced layoffs and the shutting down of a few projects. One of the main ones, Jaiku, said Google will not developing their codebase anymore. But hope is not lost with the Jaiku blog announcing
While Google will no longer actively develop the Jaiku codebase, the service itself will live on thanks to a dedicated and passionate volunteer team of Googlers.
It will be interesting to see where Jaiku goes now, and although I’ve never been a huge fan, I liked the ambitious featues such as comments and groups.
Also last week both CES 09 and the last Macworld featuring Apple were held in the US. Nothing really that shocking or applaud worthy from Macworld, but the DRM-free songs are a nice treat, albeit one that should have been there at the beginning. Some of the big winners of CES were Asus with an odd EEE family keyboard Media Center PC. and Sony with the Vaio P, but the biggest surprise has to be Palm’s latest smartphone, the “Palm Pre“. [Watch the CES Keynote Here]
Also to no ones surprise, Microsoft announced Windows 7 was about to go into Public Beta. The beta did start off a bit rocky, with the Microsft website crashing several times due to “unprecedented demand”, but now its up and running. I have been using the beta for some time now, and I must say this is better than Vista when it was released. Grab it now, because Microsft ware pulling the plug on January 24th. Full review of Windows 7 coming in the next few days.
Also if anyone could vote for @mcawilliams in the Shorty Awards click here http://short.ie/ntgp4k. Note: You will need a twitter account but its fast and fun!
For the few of you that actually read my blog, you might have wondered where I was these last few weeks. Well to be honest, I conciously forgot about you. I’ve been caught up in the micro-blogging scene and I forgot that the majorblogging was active also, and that if I wanted to get people here as I have on my Twitter or Flickr, I need to post.
So posting will be both regulary and short. Snappy and useful. Things I might cover here are software, movie, podcast, music and game reviews. Some things that are going on my life, such as college, the search for work will also be posted here.
Yes i do realise that I dont have my own theme on this site yet because I am in the middle of rebuilding and setting up around 2-3 sites at the moment, and so for the sake of keeping my sanity, I will hold off for a while and make do with what is there already.