Miralinks – 17th Jan 09

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!