Anonymous have seemingly launched an attack targetting Irish government websites including revenue.ie. Previous Anonymous actions against Ireland took place during the controversy surrounding copyright legislation in early 2012. At the time and again now, the action was referred to as “OpIreland” They published a press release via Youtube to inform the Irish government of what […]
It’s makeover time for websites,as the Irish Times and Irish Independent try out new looks. Google Plus gets a touch up – nobody notices. Facebook announce a new look – has anybody actually seen it yet? Anyway, Facebook is uncool. Again. Google reader gets culled. Conn and Michele go and wallow in aggregator nostalgia. […]
Dropbox has announced the acquisition of Mailbox. Mailbox view the acquisition as being a way for them to grow faster. Mailbox launched recently and has garnered a lot of media attention, so being “snapped up” so quickly is interesting. You might have expected someone else to get them, as Damien Mulley commented: Woah Dropbox buys […]
It’s not often that Ireland and the UK are ahead of the US when it comes to “social” features. However in the case of Netflix Irish users have been able to share (or torment) their viewing habits with their social network since the service launched last year. This is now launching in the US and […]
Music streaming service Deezer are launching an API for developers, but with an added twist. Developers will not only be able to integrate their apps with Deezer, but they’ll also get paid for referrals they generate. Deezer CEO Axel Dauchez said: “Music streaming isn’t about giving people access to soulless databases of songs – we […]
Google will have to pay a $7 million fine in the US. The fine stems from Google’s “Street View” vehicles sucking up too much data. While photographing streets and buildings the “street view” vehicles also collected a LOT of other data, including accessing unsecured wireless networks and collecting hundreds of gigabytes of personal data. Full […]
Websites get hacked all the time. No matter what kind of website compromise is involved it’s still an annoying and traumatic issue for website owners. Google have released a number of videos and guides to help website owners deal with the issues if they arise. The videos and tips don’t assume any technical knowledge – […]
Netflix have been ranking ISPs for the last few months and publishing data on their blog. In the case of Ireland and the UK the data was on their Irish and UK blog (obviously!) The new “speed index” covers all territories where Netflix is available They’ve got quite a lot of data to draw their […]
The guys over at The Sociable have been playing around with Twitter and doing some digging into statistics of Irish users. The initial data they’ve released is quite interesting as they’re showing the “top” Irish Twitter users as well as the “early adopters”. The most popular accounts seem to be a mix of celebrities and […]
The 2013 Social Media Awards will take place this May 30th in the Clyde Court Hotel, Dublin. Nominations opened this evening and are open until April 10th – so there’s plenty of time to get your nominations in. This year’s categories cover pretty much all areas of social media: Twitter Facebook blogs video mobile apps […]
