61% of Irish people aged 15 and over have a Facebook account: more than twice the number on Twitter, its nearest rival at 29%. That’s according to the latest Ipsos MRBI Social Networking Quarterly Survey published today. Twitter membership is slightly ahead of LinkedIn and Google+, which both stand at 24%. However, Facebook is streets ahead in another important metric, […]
Duolingo, the crowdsourced language-learning company, has beta-launched one of its most eagerly anticipated courses: Irish. It may come as a surprise to some, but when Duolingo asked its community what language courses they should develop next (after Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, German and French), the top requests were for Irish, Danish and Dutch. On St Patrick’s Day, […]
I remember being tired and cross. My wife (then fiancée) and I had just arrived home after a journey. We had been listening to the Eurovision in the car and I was already wound up by Gerry Ryan’s bad French. We may have had an argument. I remember going out to the shop in a bit of a huff as […]
I’ve got a full post in Irish over on the company blog today at blog.Blacknight.com. It’s a celebration for the week that’s in it, announcing 3 additional domain promotional videos (see below) with new soundtracks as Gaeilge, and some special offers for St Patrick’s Day. And there’s a little bit of explanation about why Blacknight […]
Facebook’s policies are more than a little confusing. Earlier this morning the Irish Times’s Facebook page was taken offline due to an “offensive” image. Here’s the image they posted: They’ve since published a more “sanitised” version with an explanation of what happened. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152029725361158&set=a.10150091152971158.270119.45441411157&type=1&stream_ref=10 You can also read the story behind the original photo and its […]
Blacknight, which owns Technology.ie, is Ireland’s leading domain registrar. We sell domain names on behalf of domain registries like Verisign, who operate the dot-com and dot-net registries, and we work with them on marketing. So when Verisign showed us their new international video ads, we knew just what to do! Tá áthas agus bród orainn […]
If you are trying to advertise your site or service via affiliate marketing in Ireland you essentially have two options: Run your own affiliate program inhouse Tap into a 3rd party network such as TradeDoubler or Affiliate Window While TradeDoubler did have an Irish office they shut it down towards the end of last year, […]
The Irish ISP association (hotline.ie) wrote to Mr Richard Bruton, Minister of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation last month about the newspaper copyright debacle. They finally got a “reply” but it doesn’t really address their concerns- if anything it just punts the issue to the copyright review. You can download the hotline.ie’s original letter here and the […]
Horse meat or, more specifically, horse DNA, made its way into some meat products being sold in Irish supermarkets. You can read about the story over on The Guardian (we’re avoiding Irish newspapers at the moment!) So of course the Irish internet community had to find the funny side. Here are a couple of the […]
Spotify is now available to Irish users. In case you’re not familiar with it Spotify is a digital music service that gives you “on demand” access to over 18 million songs. If you like music then you’ll love it. So now the digital music service seems to have quietly enabled access to Irish users over […]
