Niall Kennedy

Announcing Widget Summit 2008

Niall Kennedy (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008

I am hosting a my third annual Widget Summit conference November 3rd and 4th at Hotel Nikko in San Francisco.

Ordnance Survey OpenSpace Demo

Simon Willison's Weblog (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008

Ordnance Survey OpenSpace Demo ( via ). Niall Kennedy threw a demo up on his site—the map seems to load a lot faster than Google Maps and the level of detail once you zoom down to street level is really impressive.

Review: Google Apps Hacks

SEOCentro - SEO News (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008

Last week at the Web 2.0 Expo I decided to walk the exhibition floor. Niall Kennedy and I checked out the inflatable Google booth, we gave feedback to the WordPress folks, and we came to rest in the Yahoo booth, where it was nice to see Jeremy Zawodny and catch up a little bit. After a few minutes of talking, I noticed the O'Reilly booth just a few yards away. I'm a sucker for O'Reilly books, so I...

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Meet the Speakers Part 6: Niall Kennedy

Web 2.0 Expo Blog (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008

Are you interested in getting an in-depth look at emerging technologies and the fundamentals that make the Web tick? On Tuesday, Niall Kennedy of Hat Trick Media takes a dive deep into the building blocks of Web 2.0 and more...

Customizing conference speeches for your audience

Niall Kennedy (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008

Over the past few weeks new conversations have emerged regarding how conferences must change to better suit their audience. As a conference producer, conference speaker, and attendee I have many opinions on running a great show but today's post will focus on speakers. In this post I will share three speaking tips that keep coming up in my conversations with other speakers in the industry.

Google App Engine for Developers

James Fee GIS Blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008

Niall Kennedy has written an excellent overview of Google App Engine from aimed at developers. Well worth the read.

Google App Engine for developers

Simon Willison's Weblog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008

Google App Engine for developers . Best in-depth coverage so far, from Niall Kennedy. I didn’t know that Guido had worked on the Django compatibility layer.

Links and Stuff on 22/02/08

Self Made Minds (Free subscription) | 02/22/2008

A new addition to BlogRush (the headline sharing widget) is Traffic Jam, a supposedly easy way to see what is happening in the blogosphere. Niall Kennedy has come up with a very cool script that you can use to display Social Bookmarking buttons only to your readers that have visited those sites by looking at the [...]

Sniff browser history for improved user experience

zidouta.com (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008

Niall Kennedy, Sniff browser history for improved user experience: “I have been the browser history of my website visitors for the past few months to gracefully enhance adding my Atom feed to their favorite feed reader. Easily recognized branding such as “Add to My Yahoo” has yielded much higher conversion rates than a simple Atom link [...]

Sniffing users's browser history and Firefox extensions to stop it

tiffany b. brown (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008

Go read Niall Kennedy's post about using JavaScript to sniff a user's browser history. It's an inventive use of your user’s browser history, though I suspect it could potentially be used — in combination with cookies and logins — to detect which of your users are also regular porn surfers. With that ...

How to Probe Browser History Using Javascript in IE and Firefox

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4life (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008

Niall Kennedy has a blog post entitled Sniff browser history for improved user experience where he describes a common-sense technique to test URLs against a Web browser’s visited page history. He writes I first blogged about this technique almost two years ago but I will now provide even more details and example implementations. ... A web browser such as Firefox or Internet Explorer will load the...

The City of San Francisco

In Photos (Free subscription) | 02/02/2008

The City of San Francisco San Francisco as seen from the hills surrounding the City. I took this back in August 2006. Can you tell yet that I merged a few of my work directories after doing some house keeping work on my photo archive? Thanks to Niall Kennedy for driving us up there! Automattic , California , Canon 20D , hills , Houses , irishblogs , Landscape , photos , San Francisco , Sea , Sigma...

Should NewsGator Worry About Microsoft?

Collaborative Thinking (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008

Interesting post by Niall Kennedy. My opinion is: No. And Yes. No in the sense that the feed reading capabilities in IE7 are very basic and are not intended to compete with full-fledged feed readers. That could change of course...

Google's Massive Grid

deal architect (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008

Niall Kennedy presents dimensions of Google's grid based on an analysis of a research paper by its engineers. "Google currently processes over 20 petabytes of data per day through an average of 100,000 MapReduce jobs spread across its massive computing...

Pilgrim's Picks for January 9th

Marketing Pilgrim (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008

It's hard to come up with a cute introduction for every Pilgrim's Picks, so I’ll just let you go ahead and insert your own dry-humor here:……….. Did you know that Google processes 20 petabytes of data each day? Niall Kennedy does! Dear Steve Rubel, some of us "tech bloggers" have built a model around catering to the [...]