Safety in Startups

Frank Fullard points out that working for a large organisation is no longer a guarantee of job security - if indeed it ever really was. By contrast, most new jobs are being created in small businesses.
Since I left my old job in April, that company’s parent announced a global headcount reduction target of 10%. [...]

Learnings from OpenCoffee Limerick

I wasn’t able to attend OpenCoffee Limerick yesterday morning, but I dropped in as the gathering broke up in time to catch the following useful insights:

Since the latest version of Google Reader, James Corbett no longer uses Feeddemon. I remain attracted to the idea of offline feed reading, but I must admit that one [...]