Brian Kenny

I was playing around on vimeo the other day and found this wicked app that a girl used to video record herself over the course of the day. It’s called Gawker.

So being the little copy cat I am, decided to give it a shot. So here’s a couple of hours of working at Page 7 Media

Messing with gawker at work from Brian Kenny on Vimeo.

I purchased this book from amazon a couple of days ago and I cannot wait to get my teeth stuck into it. From an early age, I’ve always been a Visual Studio head, for no reason by choice but soley because that’s what was knocking around close to me with friends etc.

I would say my background is .NET and everything to do with the framework. I think once I started to learn about Ruby I simply cannot put it down. It’s an amazing and insightful language.

Safe to say this book is my weekend reading!

Seen this video on vimeo, man it’s great to see people creating such wicked videos. Inspires anyone once watched.

London (harder, better, faster, stronger) from David Hubert on Vimeo.

Some pretty damn wicked camera showing-off going on here: http://revision3.com/remix/

I’d love to find out how they can just swap the camera angels like that and load it in real time, without having to re-stream a different feed.

I don’t want to turn into one of those people who constantly moan that they do not update their blog enough. I update mine as much as humanly possible. I’ve found some time to write up what’s been going on over the past few weeks.

Car Buyers Guide (www.cbg.ie)
I work as the IT Manager for www.cbg.ie along with numerous other websites and boy have we been busy. We are trying to test new web applications and integrate them with existing ones and blah blah blah. If I was to be perfectly honest, we are about to launch some pretty cool new functionalities to the website that I am super excited about. It’s taking up alot of my time, but boy is it cool. I can’t wait to share it with the open world.

We are also pushing more for feedback from the public and our users on how we can improve things for you. I have recently started polls on the home page of www.cbg.ie that will allow you to vote on new ideas. For anyone who hasn’t voted, get on over to the website and get your voice heard. If the verdict is to go ahead with the idea, we’ll get it built for you. Any other suggestions that we may have not thought about, mail me directly bkenny at page7media dot ie.

Menupages.ie
You may have noticed we relaunched a completely new version of www.menupages.ie and boy are we proud of what we have accomplished. With some super cool features such as search for a restaurant via maps to a completely new look and feel to the site developed on the feedback we recieved from our customers. We’re very proud of what we’ve done here.

Kick ass video on how the new digg.com recommendation engine works. A great video to watch as a tutorial on how to do something math related on the web- right.

Anton Talks About The Digg Recommendation Engine from Kevin Rose on Vimeo.

I never really got the whole idea behind twitter, well, I never really bothered to look into it to deeply. Until the Irish Web Awards last Saturday. I seen John Williams
QIK‘ing the event on his iPhone. Yes, I really want an iPhone, but that’s for another day’s rant.

So when I got home, or rather, got up the next day with a sore head, I wanted to check out the video’s and the live stream that went on the web. After hearing a lot of the guys ranting about twittering during the event, I decided to check that out also. No doubt the two where very much combined.

Now I am absolutely in love with twitter, can’t put it down. I even have twitterific running on my mac to get constant updates.

Congrats to the guys for pulling off an amazing night at the awards also. Much love.

It’s been about 3 weeks now since the www.newcar.ie website launched and it’s becoming more and more of a hit. I could not be more excited watching it grow!

What started as a simple task of gather new car data from the office and placing it on a wordpress site that manages the categorisation of it is turning into a steady growth site.

Check it out here

I recently stumbled upon Digg Nation, a kind of mangled subsidiary of digg.com. Basically two guys, Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht sit down frequently and discuss the articles on digg.com that have got the highest amount of diggs.

There is some pretty whacky stories included but it’s an excellent video and kept up to date frequently, it might be weekly (not 100% sure). Its hosted on the Revision3 website and you Read the rest of this entry »

I just started using Pownce recently. I really really like it. There’s not to many Irish users on it, but the actual service is very slick.

You basically sign up and have the ability to share music, files and dialog with other users. I know it doesn’t sound like much, but I subscribed to a few guys and the music sharing really rocks. Read the rest of this entry »