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	<description>Cloud Computing &#38; Social Media (Technologies of The Future)</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>VIRTUAL FOSE - FREE IT CONFERENCE &amp; EXPO</title>
		<link>http://finbarrmccarthy.com/2010/06/virtual-fose-free-it-conference-expo/</link>
		<comments>http://finbarrmccarthy.com/2010/06/virtual-fose-free-it-conference-expo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Finbarr McCarthy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is something that will be of interest to anyone involved in government/public sector IT.
Don’t let lack of training dollars or your schedule prevent you from keeping up with the latest IT trends in an ever-changing market.
If you missed the #1 government-focused IT expo and conference in our nation’s capital this March, it’s now coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Apps Engine - A Route To Acquisition?</title>
		<link>http://finbarrmccarthy.com/2009/11/google-apps-engine-a-route-to-acquisition/</link>
		<comments>http://finbarrmccarthy.com/2009/11/google-apps-engine-a-route-to-acquisition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Finbarr McCarthy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Computing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[AWS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Azure]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[EC2]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google Apps]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google Apps Engine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Up until recently I hadn&#8217;t payed much attention to Google Apps Engine.  Last month I attended the Google Atmosphere event in London and got a quick run down on Apps Engine from one of the Google Engineers at one of the stalls, I have to say I was very impressed with what I saw.
Google Apps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud Computing and The Rigid Iron Fist of Security Managers</title>
		<link>http://finbarrmccarthy.com/2009/11/cloud-computing-and-the-rigid-iron-fist-of-security-managers/</link>
		<comments>http://finbarrmccarthy.com/2009/11/cloud-computing-and-the-rigid-iron-fist-of-security-managers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Finbarr McCarthy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Computing]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://finbarrmccarthy.com/?p=193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Following on from my last post on the top 10 technologies and trends for 2010 I had a couple of thoughts on 3 of the items in the list, namely;
Point 1 &#8220;Cloud Computing&#8221;
Point 10 &#8220;Mobile Applications&#8221;
Point 7 &#8220;Security – Activity Monitoring&#8221;
My thoughts, or more precisely my questions are, how are IT security folks going to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 technologies and trends for 2010</title>
		<link>http://finbarrmccarthy.com/2009/11/top-10-technologies-and-trends-for-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://finbarrmccarthy.com/2009/11/top-10-technologies-and-trends-for-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Finbarr McCarthy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Computing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Future Web]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[David Cearley]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gartner]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Social Computing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gartner recently released their &#8220;Top 10 technologies and trends&#8221; for the coming year (2010).
Gartner defined a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact &#8212; meaning it will require substantial financial investment, has a high potential to disrupt the business or puts the organization at risk if it&#8217;s late to adopt &#8212; in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Atmosphere</title>
		<link>http://finbarrmccarthy.com/2009/11/google-atmosphere/</link>
		<comments>http://finbarrmccarthy.com/2009/11/google-atmosphere/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Finbarr McCarthy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Computing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Atmosphere]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[AWS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Werner Vogels]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Geoffrey Moore]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[GMail]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google Apps]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google Wave]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nicholas Carr]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PaaS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SaaS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SalesForce.com]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://finbarrmccarthy.com/?p=181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I was at Google&#8217;s Atmosphere event in London. The event was highly informative, entertaining and thought provoking with speakers ranging from Nicholoas Carr (Author: The Big Switch), Nikesh Arora(Google), Dr. Werner Vogels (Amazon), Dave Girouard (Google), Geoffrey Moore (Author: Crossing the Chasm), Marc Benniof (CEO &#038; Founder Salesforce.com), Matthew Glotzbach (Google), Dr. Carsten [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Recession is Over - But the Inter World Trouble is Only Beginning For Second Life</title>
		<link>http://finbarrmccarthy.com/2009/10/the-recession-is-over-but-the-inter-world-trouble-is-only-beginning-for-second-life/</link>
		<comments>http://finbarrmccarthy.com/2009/10/the-recession-is-over-but-the-inter-world-trouble-is-only-beginning-for-second-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Finbarr McCarthy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Future Web]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[OnLine Marketing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Second Life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Web 2.0]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://finbarrmccarthy.com/?p=177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Plummeting real-estate prices, fears of infrastructure collapse, theft from the stock exchange and a run on Ginko Financial with customers queuing at the bank for almost a week demanding their money back. Thats the challenge Second Life (the online virtual world) faced a year ago. Ginko Financial later collapsed and was confirmed to be a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has Cloud Computing Killed The Operating System?</title>
		<link>http://finbarrmccarthy.com/2009/10/has-cloud-computing-killed-the-operating-system/</link>
		<comments>http://finbarrmccarthy.com/2009/10/has-cloud-computing-killed-the-operating-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Finbarr McCarthy</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google Apps]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Microsoft]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PaaS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[S3]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SaaS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SalesForce.com]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SimpleDB]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[VM Ware]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://finbarrmccarthy.com/?p=171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Operating System originated as a common set of platform management abstractions, to free software developers from the complexity of managing hardware. To many of us that concept has become somewhat distant and when we think OS we usually think in terms of UI or GUI (Graphical User Interface). Most of the current generation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cork City Council - Corrupt, Discriminatory or Incompetent?</title>
		<link>http://finbarrmccarthy.com/2009/09/cork-city-council-corrupt-discriminatory-or-incompetent/</link>
		<comments>http://finbarrmccarthy.com/2009/09/cork-city-council-corrupt-discriminatory-or-incompetent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Finbarr McCarthy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General Rants]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cork City Council]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who knows me in real life will know that for the past 7 years I have been suffering from a physical disability. At the time this began I ended up in Cork University Hospital in a pretty poor state, I was having extreme difficulty walking, speech problems and the mother of all headaches. After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Irish Government needs an IT Strategy</title>
		<link>http://finbarrmccarthy.com/2009/08/why-the-irish-government-needs-an-it-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://finbarrmccarthy.com/2009/08/why-the-irish-government-needs-an-it-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Finbarr McCarthy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Cloud Computing]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[General Rants]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Drupal]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Google Apps]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Open Government]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Open Source]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PaaS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://finbarrmccarthy.com/?p=149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Like so many others, inefficiencies in government and a lack of transparency have long been a source of minor annoyance to me. More recently this "minor annoyance" has become a significant source of frustration as I now feel that the lack of transparency and prompt action by the Irish Government is hitting me in the pocket in the form of extra taxes and levies every which way I turn. People and businesses everywhere have had to adjust sharply to the current economic reality and my question is, why hasn't the Irish Government done this also?]]></description>
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		<title>Finally The Wedding Video</title>
		<link>http://finbarrmccarthy.com/2009/08/finally-the-wedding-video/</link>
		<comments>http://finbarrmccarthy.com/2009/08/finally-the-wedding-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Finbarr McCarthy</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Wedding Video]]></category>

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