Random Act of Kindness – Parcel Motel
Parcel Motel are currently running a competition / giveaway via their Facebook page for an Xbox. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=403098606488596&set=a.174442759354183.40677.161579730640486&type=1 One entrant asked the company if they’d be able to deliver the prize to Crumlin Children’s Hospital and this happened: Nice!
Slayer Fan’s Christmas Lights
This might be a couple of years old, but considering the time of the year I thought I’d share it: Apparently the same guy has been doing Christmas lights with a “rocking” theme for several years.. Here’s this year’s one: or his Metallica one from last year:
Back to the Future’s Original Delorean Restored
If you’re a fan of sci-fi you’ve probably seen Back to the Future a few times. If you’re old enough, however, the movie is also a memory from your childhood. While there have been plenty of Delorean cars that fans have converted into “Back to the Future” ones, the original screen used […]
Racism & Stupidity – How Not to Do Corporate PR
Justine Sacco used to be the Corporate Communications Director for IAC – the company that owns web content companies such as College Humor, About.com, Match.com, Dictionary.com and The Daily Beast. Now she’s a textbook case study for how to offend millions and destroy your career in a single day. Her first mistake was to post […]
NewsCorp Buys Storyful
Storyful, the social news agency founded by former RTE anchor Mark Little, has been bought by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp for €25m. Founded in 2008, Storyful’s team of journalists work to find and verify user generated content of interest to media organisations, and help the owners of the content to monetise it. As the business […]
Carlow Software Company is a Long Haul Entrepreneur [Video]
We feature a lot of serial entrepreneurs on technology.ie, but Kevin McDermott is different. Call him a long-haul entrepreneur: he’s no less innovative for that, having ridden the waves of technology since he started developing educational CD-ROMs (look it up kids) for the US market in 1995. These days Capture Productions is focused on mobile […]
Chuck Norris tops Van Damme (with CGI help)
OK – so this ad featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme is over the top (although it does have a point to make about Volvo Dynamic Steering). But when it comes to OTT, you know Chuck Norris has to have the last word! [youtube]http://youtu.be/T-D1KVIuvjA[/youtube] Related articles Chuck Norris Split: Jean-Claude Van Damme, You Got Served! GoDaddy to […]
Bitcoin – Collapse or Correction?
Here’s a chart from Mt Gox, a Bitcoin exchange, showing Bitcoin’s value for the past month. Following a spike which saw Bitcoins trade for over $1200, the price would appears to have stabilised at around $500 – $600 the value it has had for most of the past month. But throughout 2012, the crpytocurrency […]
2013 was All About Social
Here’s a very quick video by Social Bakers summing up the social media trends of 2013. It points to the success of Facebook and Twitter in 2013, and adds that Google has become “the go-to social platform … for commenting on Youtube videos!” [youtube]http://youtu.be/JEzoEuiP1-o[/youtube] Related articles YouTube Encourages Users to Let Go of Anonymity […]
Happy Christmas – See you at SUXmas!
SUXmas is the Christmas party for Irish startup community, and the community has responded enthusiastically, with all 250 tickets sold out for the event tomorrow night in Bar Tengu in Dublin. Blacknight are sponsoring the event, and Technology.ie will be chatting with guests on the “red carpet” as they arrive. Then we’ll put the cameras […]