Netvibes has gone all double-speak, corporate bullshit on us in their latest email “It has been a very dynamic month at Netvibes, and also the occasion for us to reaffirm our present situation and motivations”

Damien Mulley calling on the people of Ireland to protest against the censorship of RTE. Print t-shirts, make placards, call your local government and don’t let this be the start of the descent into a Shamrock Republic. §

The Irish government is putting its collective foot in its collective mouth over these nude paintings of Cowen. Sending garda to Today FM and telling RTE to issue an apology is insane. Remember the threats against the Dutch cartoonist who depicted Muhammed ? You don’t want to be like that, an Taoiseach. §

ArrivedOK is a clever service that texts loved ones when you land at your destination and turn on your phone. It would be quite useful as an everyday shorter-journey service too. My mother-in-law-to-be always forgets to text us when she arrives home in Carlow from Waterford. If ArrivedOK could do inter-city trips then I’d sign up for sure. §

Lounge is an iPhone Twitter client with a Mac OS X desktop version too. Nice and simple though it does freeze up a bit too much. §

Unite, a union, are going to picket Enterprise Ireland. §

I thought “Are we human or are we dancer” by The Killers was the stupidest lyric of the year. Fluke have a strong contender in Squirt with “Bigger than the closest star, Bigger than the motor car.” §

One has to admire, if not commend, Plaxo’s dedication to notification fidelity. §

@o2irl O2 Ireland getting avoidable bad press from Enda. Going to cost them more than if they had simply helped him out. §

The €10,000 Irish iQ Prize now has a site. Cold, hard cash for the best web business plan, no strings attached. One question I have is; will submitted business plans be made public? §