Nominations opened today for the 2014 edition of the Social Media Awards. As in previous years nominations are 100% free. This year’s categories are: Facebook categories: Facebook Page for a Business (Non Campaign) Facebook Page for a Non-Profit/Organisation Facebook Page for a Business (owner managed) Integrated Facebook Campaign: Page, App, Ads Twitter categories Best Business […]
Last night the US government made a historic announcement. You can read the press release here. There’ll be a LOT of media coverage of this announcement in the coming days and weeks. ICANN’s CEO Fadi Chehadé recorded a brief video last night to explain the importance of the announcement: Related articles US to give up control […]
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 […]
Here’s an unashamed bit of trumpet blowing, but I think it can be indulged for the week that’s in it! This video, produced for Fáilte Ireland’s Youtube channel, is racking up the hits at present thanks to the feelgood factor – and James Vincent McMorrow’s cover of Higher Love. [youtube]http://youtu.be/9wmIZEl1nSo[/youtube] But it’s not just the […]
The question of how many angels can dance on the head of a pin is unlikely to be discussed much this St Patrick’s Say, but a pin being presented in Washington DC today will feature the world’s smallest image of a shamrock etched on it. The pin is an ordinary Trinity College silver lapel pin, […]
Dublin Airport’s Facebook page published a “notice” earlier this week that has gone viral: The image has been shared over 12 thousand times so far and has over 6k “likes”, it’s also been covered in a lot of media outlets over the last couple of days. They’ve now taken it a step further and produced […]
On 12 March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee was working at CERN, the European nuclear research facility, when he submitted a proposal for an information management system which went on to become The World Wide Web. 25 years later the Web has transformed the world, and become so ubiquitous and pervasive and noisy that it’s hard to […]
Grumpy Cat, Grumpy Cat, where are you goin’? I’m going to Austin to look at the Throne. Grumpy Cat, Grumpy Cat, what did you there? I said: Get off, That’s My Chair. [youtube]http://youtu.be/7218KbK0qlI[/youtube] via Mashable.
[youtube]http://youtu.be/EuhJ22KGnSQ[/youtube] A Capital Gains Tax rate of 33% is a tax on risk, and operates as a disincentive to entrepreneurship in Ireland, which amounts to “economic illiteracy”. That’s the view of Galway based entrepreneur and campaigner Declan Ganley, which he expressed recently in an opinion piece in The Sunday Business Post. A few days […]
