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Jemima Kiss {media guardian} The Nutshell: A beginners’ guide to APIs does a better job than i will explaining APIs.

I never really saw the use for them back in my days in cryptography. But in a non portal mash up 2.0 world APIs are key to activity and sharing. Rather than reduce the brand impact they spread it further away from center, now all you have to decide is, is your model (sometimes a business model) clever enough to take advantage and exploit these opportunities that APIs bring.

Think of it this way. Is there online real estate in the Twitter home page? No. Its frontiers without front pages.

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Welcome to Flock 1.0

Trying out Flock 1.0 yes it is really me & NO the photo below is not me its him

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a competitor’s site says ‘the revolution will be podcast’. Well I don’t want my revolution to be time-shifted and under 45 minutes in length. 51 years ago news (film) from Ireland had to be sent to the UK to be processed before being broadcast again back in Ireland (on TV).  Nowadays every phone user is a walking cameraman within ear shot of a story. Record ~ Stop ~ Upload. but are we using this power to greatest effect? the Marcos Government was the first to be toppled with aid of txt msg, Tienanmen square china students used the FAX to get news out. we are overdue a new media political faux pas of a revolutionary scale. Students Minitel Paris ’68. - discuss…….

[photo lifted from here without permission but with gratitude in advance]

version 1.1 is always better, cheaper and less stressful. iMoan. would I queue? No. would I use it? yes! but hard buttons are a joy to use when coming down off the XDA mini screen, at least my XDA mini has a full hard qwerty.

flick photo by Paul Lloyd lloydyweb

this post was about the iPhone made by Apple Inc. we are not connect with nor engaged nor do we own an iPhone yet.

McHugh himself was a shop on Talbot Street Dublin that sold valve radios (in fact they sold this very radio) on HP as they were too expensive to purchase!

Intune Networks receives funding round of $17.75 million Dublin,

9th August 2007 - Intune Networks, a leading developer of technology for telecommunications networks, is pleased to announce that it has raised $17.75m from a consortium of international investors consisting of Amadeus Capital Partners, Balderton Capital (formerly known as Benchmark Capital Europe) and Spark Capital.

Intune Networks was formed in Dublin in 1999 by John Dunne, chief marketing officer, and Tom Farrell, chief technology officer. Over the past eight years, the Intune team has developed a global reputation for their expertise in lasers, and this fund-raising will provide the resources to commercialise their innovations for the telecommunications market.

full release

i’ll take the 1000 words

If saw wi-tricity in Howth in the mid 1980’s. a Hobbyist radio engineer Frank Decker from Grace O’Malley showed me and my twin brother how to use incandescent light bulb as a dummy load for a FM radio transmitter. [for the non geek readers why dummy load? its like taking full output and soaking it up immediately ] so this wasn’t wireless. a PL259 connector with coaxial cable patch would be soldered on to a 15W light bulb or a 40W light bulb. Too much power and the bulb blows.

So the real interesting stuff happens in the earlier stages of the transmitter. A fairy light bulb (think Christmas tree lights) has a screened cable loop of 1 centimeter diameter connected to the two points of the little bulb (which are hard to find in June) the the loop on the bulb is placed on the coils of the early stages and the transmitter is tuned up by light. These little fairy lights when placed in the air near the output stages would light up! then modulate the transmitter with “California Über Alles” by the Dead Kennedy’s and blow the whole Christmas tree set of lights.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers made a 60-watt light bulb glow by sending it energy wirelessly — from a device 7 feet away — potentially heralding a future in which cell phones and other gadgets get juice without having to be plugged in.

The breakthrough, disclosed Thursday in Science Express, the online publication of the journal Science, is being called “WiTricity” by the scientists.

this method of radiation to light is now deployed in childrens toys.!

these memories of mine help me form opinions about technology and its advance in the name of mankind making money. When UMTS towers are placed beside homes and schools i think of holding these fire cracker fairy lights. I also recalled RF burn and RF blindness to a rep from H3G doing some after care community relations having sited a tower beside a school, that the locals forced them to remove through civil militancy.

This must read as very worrying news for 1-2% of the population that are electro sensitive. more EMF smog. If my neighbours get this inside their walls, i can kiss goodbye to shortwave listening.

Hardly Normal but.