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Friday Photo – That was then..

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It’s Paddy’s 30th party tomorrow out in Dunboyne. This was the group of mates from college 4 years ago. Unfortunately, Aidan can’t make it over from London but it should be a great night anyway.

Square

I just watched the video of Kevin Rose demoing an initial version of Square which is a payment processing system for credit cards. The device is tiny and plugs into the top of an iPhone which then links in with an app. I’m really interested to see where they go with this as it looks tremendously easy to use. Here’s the vid:

I like the way it can show you a picture of the buyer if they’ve setup an account with Square. Jack Dorsey, one of Twitter’s co-founders, is the main guy behind this. One to watch.

It all started with a hat…

… and three days later the Facebook fan page I’d set up for Paul Cunningham’s winter hat had 3,500 members. On Thursday evening, RTE News’ Environment Correspondent Paul Cunningham wore this hat:

Twitter lit up with responses to it so I grabbed a Twitpic (thanks to Jack Murray) and published the page. The next morning it was mentioned on national radio shows and it grew very quickly. On Friday evening I decided to head along with anyone who wished to for the hats next outing. Unfortunately, RTE switched location from the previous night from Government Buildings to the IFSC. I’d like to think it was down to the fact that the meeting was announced via the Facebook page at lunchtime. ;) Alas, only 5 others turned up (it’s a lot easier to click ‘Like’) but we had an ‘Up with that sort of thing’ shot taken outside the Dail and then went for a few pints. Paul hasn’t worn the hat since so the page may well die now. Still, it was great craic while it lasted.
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