Niall Kennedy's weblog

Niall Kennedy's Weblog

Page 29 of 72, covering posts published in April 2005.

Redefined Nintendo a cappella medley

It recently came to my attention that some people have not seen the a cappella med Mario Bros…. "Dungeon" The Legend of Zelda Mario Bros.

Blogger dinner this Friday in Redwood City

Ira Glass is speaking at the Fox Theatre in Redwood City this Friday night. Doug Kaye and I are attending, and we want to have all the local bloggers and audio geeks meet for dinner before the talk.

Movable Type 3.16 now available

Mena's Corner explains some of the behind-the-scenes motivation and corporate changes for this point release…. With Movable Type 3.16, we believe that we're getting back to the quality of code that our users had grown to expect.

Adobe to acquire Macromedia

Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia for $3.4 billion in stock.

Dan Neil and General Motors

What would you do if the writing of one of your employees pissed off a client so much they pulled their account worth over $10 million?

New York Times on employer weblog intervention

of the The New York Times published an article in Monday's business section on employer intervention over employee weblogs. I am featured in the article.

Legal tidbits on blogging while an employee

I have written some form of a weblog since 1994. A lot has changed in my life over the last 11 years, but I always have claimed my personal Web space as my own, free of paycheck influence.

John Battelle starts FM Publishing

John Battelle recently announced his new company named FM Publishing to act as a publisher for more authors in similar ways to his role as band manager at Boing Boing. I plan to partner with site authors, acting as a platform which provides important services to them – revenue (in the form of advertising), back end support, and the like.

Social bookmarks article in D-Lib magazine

Tony Hammond, Timo Hannay, Ben Lund, and Joanna Scott of Nature Publishing Group contributed a long a detailed look at social bookmarking tools in the April 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine.

New York Times photo shoot

Today I was photographed for a New York Times article on the tension between employers and employees over weblogs.

Perseus blog study estimates 31.6 million hosted weblogs

Perseus Development Corporation surveyed ten thousand weblogs on twenty leading weblog hosting services. They conclude 31.6 million weblogs have been created on these top hosted services including 10 million weblogs created in the first three months of 2005.

Contagious Media Showdown

Eyebeam has kicked off the first contagious media showdown to track the hottest meme online between May 19 and June 9.

SpamLookup testing

Over the weekend I installed SpamLookup after rave reviews.

Del.icio.us takes funding

Joshua Schachter announced del.icio.us just closed a funding round led by Union Square Ventures. Amazon.com, Marc Andreessen, BV Capital, Esther Dyson, Seth Goldstein, Josh Koppelman, Howard Morgan, Tim O'Reilly, and Bob Young round out the investment group.

Thad White of Yahoo! Mobile

The final presentation of the night was from Thad White of Yahoo!… content on their computer and send the content to their mobile phone using an SMS message with a URL.

Fabrizio Capobianco of Funambol

The second Mobile Monday presentation was by Fabrizio Capobianco of Funambol. Funambol develops the open source SyncML server Sync4j.

Buzznet presentation at Mobile Monday

Jeff Clavier and Marc Brown of Buzznet were the third Mobile Monday presenters. Buzznet is a photo sharing service and platform based on a LAMP architecture.