Categorised as: Web 2.0
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Yahoo! in ‘serious’ talks to acquire Tumblr for US$1bn News
17.05.2013 Yahoo! is believed to be in acquisition talks with social blogging site Tumblr in a deal estimated to be worth up to US$1bn. -
Harlem Shake goes out with a bang, literally (video) News
14.05.2013 You Harlem Shakers, you’ve had it coming! For some of us who found the Harlem Shake meme tedious and a bit of an overkill, a new video showing a Harlem Shake attempt gone wrong... -
AOL's digital prophet David Shing – ‘It’s time to build a new kind of web’ News
22.02.2013 AOL’s engineers are hard at work building the template for a new kind of internet experience with Big Data at its heart that the company’s digital prophet David Shing says will...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Social Media, Search, Networking & Telecoms, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
Viral videos of the week – 17/02/2013 News
17.02.2013 We take a look at some of the most-viewed and most-shared videos on the web. This week features a discussion on the inevitable zombie apocalypse in the Canadian House of... -
Twitter launches transparency report site on Data Privacy Day News
28.01.2013 In the spirit of an open and safe internet – and to mark international Data Privacy Day, a day focused on raising awareness and promoting data privacy education – Twitter has... -
Blog exposes the scary side of Facebook Graph Search News
23.01.2013 Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg excitedly unveiled the supposed next big thing for the social network: a search facility that can pinpoint friends and others on Facebook... -
Timberlake’s Myspace faces trouble from independent music labels News
21.01.2013 There are about 53m songs available for listeners on Myspace, which would make it one of the biggest online music libraries out there. However, the rebooted social network now... -
Arnold Schwarzenegger talks politics, Hollywood and favourite movie quotes on Reddit News
16.01.2013 “Former Mr Olympia, Conan, Terminator, and Governor of California. I killed the Predator.” How better to introduce none other than Arnold Schwarzenegger, who took to Reddit last...Tags: Social Media, Reddit, -
Viral videos of the week – 13/01/2013 News
13.01.2013 We take a look at some of the most-viewed and most-shared videos on the web. This week stars RTÉ's Aengus MacGrianna in Anchorman, celebrities dealing with some unsavoury... -
Viral videos of the week – 06/01/2013 News
06.01.2013 We take a look at some of the most-viewed and most-shared videos on the web. This week features an unexpected journey for The Office cast, the return of Charlie the unicorn,... -
Review of 2012 in gaming News
29.12.2012 We take a look at the last 12 months and ponder what games and consoles have left an impression on us. Money-makers, crowd-funding, Irish game development - Adam Renardson looks... -
YouTube Rewind 2012 recaps the year in online video (video) News
18.12.2012 YouTube’s retrospective on the year stars some of 2012’s biggest viral hits – including the biggest of them all – while an interactive timeline allows users to look back at the... -
Viral videos of the year - 2012 edition News
30.12.2012 More than 72 hours of video were uploaded to YouTube every minute in 2012, with more than 800m unique user visits and more than 4bn hours of video watched each month. As a... -
Viral videos of the week – 16/12/2012 News
16.12.2012 We take a look at some of the most-viewed and most-shared videos on the web. This week features a super villain who just wants to rap, a look at what we have been searching for...Categories: Web 2.0, Social Media, Search Engines, Search, Media, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media -
No more hiding on Facebook as the social network plans to expose ‘the unsearchables’ News
12.12.2012 Once again, Facebook is revamping its privacy settings and while some of these changes put certain controls front and centre, making these settings easier to manage, the social... -
Eircom launches Junior Spider Awards for young online innovators News
11.12.2012 Eircom is now accepting entries from primary and secondary school students for its 2013 Junior Spider Awards to showcase innovative ways they are using the internet in their...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Social Media, Search Engines, Internet, Education, Digital Media, Design, Consumer Tech, Computers, Apps -
Ikea Monkey is the latest animal star on Twitter News
10.12.2012 Move over Anfield Cat, Twitter has a new animal star – and this time he’s well-dressed for the occasion. The dapper ‘Ikea Monkey’ was spotted in Toronto this weekend and has... -
Iran launches own YouTube channel, Mehr News
10.12.2012 Iran has reportedly decided to create its own version of YouTube in order to detract from what it deems to be inappropriate content posted on the popular video-sharing network. -
Viral videos of the week – 09/12/2012 News
09.12.2012 We take a look at some of the most-viewed and most-shared videos on the web. This week features some road-worthy canines, a very honest look at The Dark Knight Rises, how to... -
Google+ claims 135m active users, introduces Communities and Snapseed for Android News
06.12.2012 Google made three announcements in one today, revealing user figures for its Google+ social network, launching Google+ communities, and introducing Snapseed for Android.