Categorised as: Web 2.0 & News
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SkillPages hits 2m users in just 10 months News
30.10.2011 Perlico founder Iain McDonald has revealed his new venture SkillPages has notched up 2m active users since January this year. SkillPages is a free service that brings together...Categories: Web 2.0, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Internet, Funding, Finding a Job, Digital Media, Digital Business, Apps -
Timeline apps more ‘mobile’ than ‘web’ – Facebook’s Ethan Beard News
27.10.2011 Due ‘any week now’, Facebook’s Timeline looks set to spark an apps revolution. But don’t be fooled, the apps that are likely to triumph on Timeline will be more mobile in...Categories: Apps, Apps Zone, Computers, Consumer Tech, Design, Digital Media, Internet, Mobile, Mobility, Phones, Social Media, Software & Web Development, Web 2.0, Web Design -
Silicon Valley software firm Engine Yard creates 30 jobs in Dublin News
27.10.2011 San Francisco software player Engine Yard, a leading platform-as-a-service (PaaS) player with expertise in PHP and Ruby on Rails, has revealed it is to create 30 new jobs in...Categories: Web 2.0, Software & Web Development, Jobs, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Business, Data Management, Apps -
Skype security flaw could expose users to stalking or fraud News
25.10.2011 A security flaw in Skype has been discovered, that experts claim can be used to track not only users’ locations but also their peer-to-peer file-sharing activities and could... -
Financial blockade forces WikiLeaks to suspend publication News
24.10.2011 WikiLeaks’ editor-in-chief Julian Assange has blamed a financial blockade by big corporations for the site deciding to temporarily cease publication of classified files. -
Dramatic redesign of Gmail on the way News
21.10.2011 A video has leaked onto the web indicating a major new redesign for Google’s popular Gmail product that should up the ante considerably in the email business. The redesign...Categories: Web 2.0, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Internet, Digital Media, Design, Communications -
Google+ launches real-time updates, coincides with Gadhafi death News
20.10.2011 Timing is everything. Just as the world endeavours to figure out if Libyan despot Moammar Gadhafi has been captured or killed, Google’s Vic Gundotra revealed a new real-time...Categories: Web 2.0, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Mobility, Mobile, Media, Internet, Digital Media, Apps -
WorldIrish.com website aims to gather Ireland’s global tribe News
07.10.2011 A new website aimed at gathering the global Irish tribe was unveiled at the Global Irish Economic Forum in Dublin today, where Irish business leaders, ex-pats and global... -
Jerry Kennelly named Ireland's Net Visionary 2011 News
30.09.2011 Kerry entrepreneur Jerry Kennelly, who sold his company Stockbyte to Getty Images in 2006 for US$135m and has come roaring back in the start-up game with Tweak.com, has been...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Mobility, Internet, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Business, Development, Design -
Twitter to locate international operations in Ireland News
26.09.2011 Twitter is to locate an international office in Dublin, the IDA confirmed this morning – appropriately enough in a tweet.Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Media, Jobs, Internet, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
The Populis blogging empire expands with €8.2m acquisition News
15.09.2011 New media publishing empire Populis, which has European headquarters in Dublin, has continued its acquisitive growth with the purchase of Berlin-based Mokono – Germany’s biggest... -
Facebook overhauls News Feed, introduces ‘Subscribe’ button News
15.09.2011 In a move that could prove enormously successful or enormously risky, Facebook has overhauled the all-important News Feed that defines most users’ experience of the social...Categories: Web Design, Web 2.0, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Communications, Apps -
Twitter’s new analytics service to tell clicks from tweets News
14.09.2011 Twitter has revealed a new analytics engine aimed at website publishers who wish to accurately measure the amount of traffic that Twitter drives their way. -
Facebook turns off email notifications – a leap of faith? News
14.09.2011 Social networking giant Facebook informed users this morning by email it is turning off email notifications with the intention of reducing inbox clutter.Categories: Web 2.0, Social Media, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Communications, Apps -
HeyStaks to represent Ireland at Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2011 News
28.07.2011 Social web-search start-up HeyStaks has been chosen to represent Ireland at the Vodafone Mobile Clicks 2011 final in Amsterdam in September, a contest that seeks out the most...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Social Media, Search Engines, Search, Mobile, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Computers, Apps Zone, Apps, Application Design and Development -
Pippa Middleton inspires pro-anorexia websites News
14.07.2011 Pippa Middleton, the sister of the Duchess of Cambridge who gained famed after being zoomed into the public eye at the duchess' wedding to Prince William, has been pegged as a... -
It’s IPv6 day today. Great, so what? News
08.06.2011 OPINION: Jim Foster, client principal at BT Ireland, explains why IPv6 is such a big deal, why it matters to the IT industry and why there's no need to panic in the same sense... -
21-year-old Irish millionaire to speak at DotConf News
19.05.2011 John Collison, the 21-year-old tech entrepreneur who, with his brother Patrick, sold their company Auctomatic for US$5m three years ago when they were just 17 and 19...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Investments, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Future of the internet event News
23.03.2011 IET Ireland is holding an event in Dublin tomorrow (24 March) to evaluate the possibility that in less than a year ISPs applying to regional internet registries will be refused....Categories: Web Development, Web Design, Web 2.0, Web, Networking & Telecoms, Mobile, Internet, Data Management, Data Centre, Consumer Tech, Computers, Apps -
Geocrowd-sourcing: future web project to recruit 13 PhDs News
10.03.2011 NUI Maynooth and six universities across Europe plan to recruit 13 PhD students as part of a pioneering study into the next generation of the internet, which will focus on the...Categories: Web 2.0, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Search Engines, Science, Mobility, Internet, Digital Media, Communications