Tagged: Blogs & News
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International bloggers to descend on midland Irish town News
14.06.2011 An international bloggers group comprising networks in Ireland and the UK will descend on Portlaoise, with the aim of helping amateur bloggers turn their blogs from hobbyist... -
Bin Laden didn’t crown the new media revolution, you did! News
03.05.2011 The swift spreading of the news of the killing of Osama bin Laden is being trumpeted by many as a victory for new media, almost as much as it is a victory for the American... -
Mulley: ‘Why I quit the Irish Blog Awards’ News
21.03.2011 On Saturday night in Belfast, one of Ireland’s best-known bloggers and the instigator of the Irish Blog Awards Damien Mulley announced that after six years of running the...Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Media, Internet, Digital Media, Communications -
Social media will become another comms tool - Mashable co-editor News
04.03.2011 From a bedroom in Aberdeen, Scotland, news blog Mashable has in just six years grown to become the social media world’s chronicle with its headquarters in New York. Co-editor...Categories: Social Media, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Media, Marketing, Digital Media, Digital Business -
'Largest' DDoS attack hits WordPress News
04.03.2011 Blogging platform WordPress.com has been targeted by a denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that the company described as "the largest and most sustained attack" in its history. -
70pc of tech execs read print media monthy, but its online for news - survey News
03.03.2011 Seventy per cent of executives in technology businesses read print journals at least once a month and nearly half (48pc) read print journals at least once a week, a Eurocom... -
Feeding the Populis – Europe’s answer to AOL plans to pay bloggers News
03.03.2011 Populis a pan-European network of more than 6,000 blogs, which is in effect Europe’s answer to AOL and Demand Media, is putting together an infrastructure that will ultimately...Categories: Web, Social Media, Mergers & Acquisitions, Leadership & Management, Internet, Communications -
Europe’s answer to AOL plans to help bloggers monetise News
18.02.2011 Populis, a pan-European network of over 6,000 blogs which is in effect Europe’s answer to AOL and Demand Media is putting together an infrastructure that will ultimately mean... -
AOL buys Huffington Post for US$315m in cash News
07.02.2011 In its strategic drive to snap up as much digital media real estate as possible, AOL has acquired The Huffington Post blog for US$315m in cash and has appointed its founder...Categories: Mergers & Acquisitions, Media, Internet, Financial, Digital Media, Digital Business, Deals Done -
Using online behaviours in your strategy planning News
16.11.2010 Most of us are aware that insights into human behaviours can guide our sales strategy, but how many exactly put this into action? -
Meet RockMelt – new browser could define social age News
08.11.2010 Netscape founder Marc Andreesen has emerged as one of the investors behind a new web browser that may define the social age. RockMelt aims to do three things: move through web...Categories: Web Development, Web, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Search, Internet, Digital Media, Development -
Children are now 'leaving' a digital footprint before birth News
08.10.2010 Children are embarking on their first digital baby steps online before they are even born, with parents uploading sonogram photos on Facebook. The majority of children in 10... -
Office Web Apps used by more than 20m people News
24.09.2010 Microsoft has revealed that in the 100 days since Office Web Apps has been launched, more than 20 million people are using the tools to edit, view and share Office documents... -
Twitter users most influential online - report News
05.08.2010 Active Twitter users are the most influential online, being three times more likely to impact on a brand’s reputation through syndicated Tweets, blog posts, articles and product... -
Internet myths are debunked at the peak of the Web Summit News
05.11.2009 At the recent Dublin Web Summit, organised by Paddy Cosgrave, more than 150 people trooped into Bewley’s Hotel in Ballsbridge to listen to some of the most influential online...Categories: Social Media -
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There’s life in the old blog yet, WordPress founder says News
04.02.2010 Blogging is dead. Again. That’s right, at least once a year the techno-hipsters weigh in with their thoughts and declare that the blog – be it personal, corporate or new media –... -
Irish diaspora create their own social networking site News
10.05.2010 Some 5,000 members have already signed up to join a social networking site called RendezVous 353 that aims to link the 80m people of Irish heritage across the world. It is... -
UCD technology to mine more than 300k articles and 4 million blog posts a day News
02.12.2009 Technology developed at UCD’s School of Computer Science and Informatics will be used to power one of the most powerful media intelligence tools on the planet, and will mine its... -
Blog Digest News
03.09.2009 HERE we are, suddenly it seems, in autumn. The air is that much crisper and the mornings are generally cold and bright.Categories: New Media