Category Archives: Entertainment

Future looks bright for video ads

By Martin Murphy | Published: August 13, 2007
Continuing in the online video theme, The Register has a story about video ads: Future looks bright for video ads The article talks about ad-funded online video, and video ads in web pages. Both of these are relevant to me at work.
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Symbian Slingplayer In Private Beta

By Martin Murphy | Published: August 13, 2007
Saw this on mocoNews.net this morning: Symbian Slingplayer In Private Beta Looks interesting, even with the number of operators making video available on mobile, this allows an individual get the video content that they have available, in their home or office, delivered to their phone. So, while they’re on a train, or waiting in an [...]
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Friday Fun: The Internet Crash of 2007

By Martin Murphy | Published: July 20, 2007
Saw this on LifeHacker, it’s a fun video from the onion about the Internet crashing: Friday Fun: The Internet Crash of 2007 – Lifehacker
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Today’s word from Dictionary.com: triskaidekaphobia

By Martin Murphy | Published: July 13, 2007
Today’s word in the dictionary.com word a day feed is “triskaidekaphobia” Nice one guys.
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RTÉ entertainment goes mobile – ireland.com – Breaking News – Tue, May 22, 2007

By Martin Murphy | Published: May 22, 2007
Interesting news about RTÉ programmes on 3′s mobile network. ireland.com – Breaking News – Tue, May 22, 2007 – RTÉ entertainment goes mobile 50 cent a day doesn’t sound to bad for the amount of data. Let’s hope other data rates come down also. (I wonder if you need a “televison reception aparatus” licence for [...]
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YouTube – Microsoft oPhone

By Martin Murphy | Published: May 10, 2007
Very funny video: YouTube – Microsoft oPhone [link via Furrygoat]
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Brilliant!

By Martin Murphy | Published: April 18, 2007
Scott Adams strikes again: http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070418.html
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Software Development Process

By Martin Murphy | Published: February 16, 2007
I link this Lisp comic strip
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Introducing iPhone Shuffle. Life Is Random.

By Martin Murphy | Published: January 28, 2007
I’m not entirely sure about the iPhone, seems to be quite big for a phone. However this is a really good idea: Introducing iPhone Shuffle. Life Is Random. Thanks to the folks at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) for the link.
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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ancient Moon ‘computer’ revisited

By Martin Murphy | Published: November 30, 2006
A 2000 year old computer looks interesting BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ancient Moon ‘computer’ revisited I must keep a lookout for the radio program on Dec 12th
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