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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Paul Fallon's WebLog : - Some interesting tech news</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/paul_fallon/archive/tags/-+Some+interesting+tech+news/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: - Some interesting tech news</description><dc:language>en-IE</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>The virtual institute of simplicity - Dublin City Council looking for ideas on what is too complex and how life in Dublin can be made easier</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/paul_fallon/archive/2004/06/28/168124.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2004 06:33:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:168124</guid><dc:creator>no1138</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/paul_fallon/comments/168124.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/paul_fallon/commentrss.aspx?PostID=168124</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;Wow, what a fantastic use of technology :)&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Let the people voice their concerns about daily life in dublin and how the people that own the services in Dublin can make life easier for its people :)&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.dublin.ie/simplicity/"&gt;This site&lt;/A&gt; was only launched in the last 2 or 3 weeks and already you can see some really good ideas beginning to come through. I especially like the idea of "Back up for mobile phone address book", its not that hard to do with todays phones and would really be a "value add" to whoever comes up with it first.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;At the time of posting, the top ten ideas for making things simpler were:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;H5&gt;Top 10 Simple Ideas&lt;/H5&gt;
&lt;UL&gt;
&lt;LI id=lhsno1&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.dublin.ie/simplicity/ideaDetails.asp?id=116"&gt;Hands Free Kits Should be installed in all cars&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;SPAN class=sug&gt;suggested by Karen &lt;/SPAN&gt;
&lt;LI id=lhsno2&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.dublin.ie/simplicity/ideaDetails.asp?id=40"&gt;Integrated transport ticket&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;SPAN class=sug&gt;suggested by peter finnegan&lt;/SPAN&gt; 
&lt;LI id=lhsno3&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.dublin.ie/simplicity/ideaDetails.asp?id=65"&gt;Back up for mobile phone address book&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;SPAN class=sug&gt;suggested by niamh &lt;/SPAN&gt;
&lt;LI id=lhsno4&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.dublin.ie/simplicity/ideaDetails.asp?id=54"&gt;people should walk more often&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;SPAN class=sug&gt;suggested by peter finnegan&lt;/SPAN&gt; 
&lt;LI id=lhsno5&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.dublin.ie/simplicity/ideaDetails.asp?id=60"&gt;Butter Packaging&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;SPAN class=sug&gt;suggested by Brendan Dowling&lt;/SPAN&gt; 
&lt;LI id=lhsno6&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.dublin.ie/simplicity/ideaDetails.asp?id=42"&gt;a car for people who know nothing about mechanics&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;SPAN class=sug&gt;suggested by &lt;/SPAN&gt;
&lt;LI id=lhsno7&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.dublin.ie/simplicity/ideaDetails.asp?id=44"&gt;New creative ideas for dating in the city&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;SPAN class=sug&gt;suggested by Karen &lt;/SPAN&gt;
&lt;LI id=lhsno8&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.dublin.ie/simplicity/ideaDetails.asp?id=27"&gt;Be upfront&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;SPAN class=sug&gt;suggested by Seamus&lt;/SPAN&gt; 
&lt;LI id=lhsno9&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.dublin.ie/simplicity/ideaDetails.asp?id=111"&gt;Calm Down.... &lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;SPAN class=sug&gt;suggested by claire reilly&lt;/SPAN&gt; 
&lt;LI id=lhsno10&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.dublin.ie/simplicity/ideaDetails.asp?id=108"&gt;Online Hostel bookings&lt;/A&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;SPAN class=sug&gt;suggested by Kevin Dorner&lt;/SPAN&gt; &lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=168124" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/paul_fallon/archive/tags/-+Some+interesting+tech+news/default.aspx">- Some interesting tech news</category></item></channel></rss>