Eircom are starting to remove phone boxes around Ireland as they become a tool of the past. With mobile devices so common there is simply no need for them anymore. Eircom did state however that there will “always be a need for phone boxes”!
In my opinion Eircom should have taken the initative some time ago and changed with the times. Why don’t, for example, Eircom add mobile phone express chargers into their phone boxes. Punters could pay a euro or two and have a little locker based mechanism – enter a pin code and you can go off for ten to fifteen mins and shop or get a coffee. Come back, enter your unique pin code and pick up a fully charged phone. Ok so its not their core business, but it would utilise a facility (the phone box) that is uniquely theirs and generate profits.
“Matt Cutts is the guy inside the Google search engine bunker who talks to the outside world. He was at the recent WordPress meetahon and gace a great talk on ways to get Google to love you even more. Read his blog post and notes, read a written transcript and thanks to onemansblog, here is a video of the talk:”
New David Guetta Single freom POP LIFE, already on release.
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Annoyed by itunes on this track. They’ve locked the 12″ mix so if you have to by the whole “album” which is really just the 4 mixes you’d get on the cd single, if you want to get the extended club mix. Yet another reason why DJ’s resent iTunes.
Its not on BeatPort but i did buy “Freedom” which has a savage Ghostbusters sample.
My Favourite artist / Illustrator Jason Brooks returns to Hed Kandi after they tried without him unsucessfully to replicate his style. Fair play to the gang at Hed Kandi for going back to the winning formula.
I bought my first piece of his work a month ago (a print from his web site) and i absolutely love it:
I’m already itching to get more, hey Jason let me know when some new stuff is up, preferably one in a blonde!!! 🙂
Yet another example of Hed Kandi Vs Fierce Angel bumping heads. Fierce Angel came out with “Buzzjunkies – Don’t mess with my Man” on their Es Vive 2007 compliation. And this morning the Promo arrived for the Hed Kandi take on this track released by Lucy Pearl in 2000. Having first mover advantage by getting into the main stream singles market Booty Luv are gonna ash in on this remix with good reason. They are the big guns, well established compared to the Buzzjunkies and with Seamus Haji on the remix they can’t go wrong. I’m a bit on the fence as to which ones better though. I think i’ll be playing the Buzzjunkies if its the start of the night and Booty Luv during the middle of the night – its got more of a sing along factor.
Both of them get 8 / 10 IMO. Booty Luv Released 10th September, available on Hed Kandi Download as of the 3rd of Sept. Debute album Boogie 2Nite released at the same time.
Today i cancelled my account with AudioBook rental club Jiggerbug having exhausted their entire business section of downloadable audio books. For over a year i was a very happy customer and would consider re-joining if they expanded their library.
Today however they did surprise me however. Customers are unable to cancel their account online, and have to make the international call during their business hours (ok so i don’t have a problem with international calls I own a telecom business which gives free international calls) still the time difference is inconvienient. I was a touch surprised you couldn’t just do this online, if i could it would make it easrier to just have suspended the account and re-join. Where’s the customer focus in that?
So where to go next to continue what is a very convenient way of learning. Maybe Audible.co.uk?
On the news this evening they were talking about how bosses should “reach out” to potential employees on social networking web sites such as Bebo according to ISME. I’m surprised a little that this is news to anyone! Anyone that thinks they are talking from behind a screen when they talk openly anywhere online and it’s saying something about people just by them thinking that way. We should all realise by now we are traceable by our IP address.
Bebo has an option to be “private” which makes you unaccessable via search engines, if you’re in anyway shady or like to talk about being lax at work, this option is for you. On the other hand, which wasn’t mentioned in the news, its yet another means to impress employers (or customers /clients). I have no problems with my businesses, customer or suppliers reading anything i say online. I wouldn’t say anything in text that i wouldn’t say to someones face. But there are means to impress online. Think how many service providers /products you’ve discovered as a result of blogs?
I think this focus on social networking sites will in due course become less weighted in the decision making program. In the coming down turn in Ireland, many smart people will end up competing for new jobs. The smart ones could easily set up ‘staged’ blogs, bebo or facebook sites. Think about it, how easy would it be to set up an account and send it messages that imply you are the most hard working stand up employee known to man; and since its apparent “third party” info its semingly more credible. Enter the two edged sword for vetting employees.
Aqua Lung are releasing a second album according to the press release with their last single “Pressure Suit”, Not mad about that track in particular, but was crazy about their first album and will be very keen to get a copy of the second. Here’s the track that first got me hooked:
