Tagged: Blogs
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Mulley to help potential digital marketing interns boost their social skills News
23.05.2013 One of Ireland’s leading social media personalities Damien Mulley will this Saturday provide a free half-day intensive course in Dublin to students who want to have better... -
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. -
Major brute force attack against WordPress under way News
12.04.2013 A large distributed brute force attack against WordPress sites is understood to be occurring. A large botnet with more than 90,000 servers is attempting to log in by cycling... -
Tech start-up of the week: RazorSocial News
24.03.2013 This week’s featured start-up is RazorSocial, an online magazine founded by Ian Cleary and his wife Colette Mullen in June 2012. For Cleary and Mullen, building a business was... -
Eircom reveals winners of 2013 Junior Spider Awards News
05.03.2013 Students from schools across Ireland have today been awarded for their online innovation in the 2013 Eircom Junior Spider Awards. The digital innovators who hail from primary...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Multimedia, Internet, Education, Digital Business, Design, Apps -
StockStreams Start-ups
18.01.2013 StockStreams filters, aggregates and quantifies actionable information from the micro blogging financial community.Categories: Social Media, SoftwareTags: Blogs, -
McAfee arrested in Guatemala – Silicon Valley entrepreneur to be extradited to Belize News
06.12.2012 After weeks on the run, flamboyant Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur John McAfee has been arrested in Guatemala and will most likely be extradited back to Belize where he must...Categories: Wireless Communications, Software & Web Development, Software, Security, Phones, Internet -
Massive bug affects 8,600 Tumblr users - reports News
03.12.2012 A massive bug affecting some 8,600 unique Tumblr users has swept the platform, infecting some of its largest blogs and leaving spam blog posts in its wake. -
GIF is Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year News
13.11.2012 Technically speaking, the Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year isn’t a word at all, but an acronym: GIF. -
Food blogs triumph at Blog Awards Ireland News
15.10.2012 On Saturday night at the Osprey Hotel, Naas, the winners of the 2012 Blog Awards Ireland across 30 categories were revealed, with food blog Wise Words taking home the award for... -
Blogger proves internet trolls aren’t so scary in real life News
25.09.2012 An Irish writer who was forced off Twitter because of frightening tactics employed by a troll met his nemesis and proved that trolls aren’t as brave as they let on.Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Security, Internet, Digital Media, Communications -
Facebook closes US$1bn Instagram acquisition News
06.09.2012 Social network Facebook has closed its acquisition of photo-sharing app Instagram today, five months after announcing the US$1bn deal. -
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams plans to disrupt publishing as we know it News
15.08.2012 Former Twitter CEO Evan Williams’ new venture Medium, in his own words, endeavours to ‘re-imagine publishing.’ The new platform appears to encourage blogging without the burden...Categories: Web, Social Media, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Digital Business, Communications -
The impact of social media in the travel and hospitality industry (infographic) News
26.06.2012 Social media is staking its claim in the travel and hospitality industry, a new infographic shows. -
Nine-year-old blogger sparks revolution in school meals News
18.06.2012 Martha Payne’s blog has gained celebrity fans and subsequently been shut down by her local council. It also inspired big changes to school meals and raised stg£80,000 for... -
Google Transparency Report reveals take-down requests from governments News
18.06.2012 The fifth update to Google’s Transparency Report reveals an increase in informal requests from governments to remove political speech from their services. -
DERI researchers' semantic web paper gets European award News
12.06.2012 A paper on the semantic web that was co-authored by researchers at NUI Galway’s Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) in 2005 has been awarded the most influential paper... -
Monty Munford interview: from blogging to Bollywood and back again News
11.06.2012 Monty Munford is one of the UK’s top tech writers, as well as being an entrepreneur and a consultant to some of the world’s top brands on mobile and social strategy. He talks to... -
Irish Times rolls out new CMS – putting digital into heart of newsroom News
15.05.2012 Irish Times editor Kevin O’Sullivan told the Media Future Conference 2012 in Dublin today that the newspaper is going to be making one of the most important shifts in its...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Social Media, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Media, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Communications, Apps