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Irish Web Awards Tonight

By this time tomorrow we’ll know who all the winners are for the 2012 Irish Web Awards. The event takes place tonight in Dublin’s Mansion House with doors opening at 7pm. Full details of the evening are on the site Best of luck to everyone! Disclosure: Blacknight is sponsoring the Most Beautiful Website in Ireland […]

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Cloud Computing Legal Conference In UCC

UCC’s Faculty of Law is holding a half-day conference on “regulation” of cloud computing. The event will be held on Friday November 16th 2012 from 2pm to 5.15pm On the agenda: What legal issues need to be considered by businesses in contracting for the provision or use of cloud computing services? •        Can an appropriate […]

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Nodejs Conference In Dublin

Node Dublin takes place in the Guinness Storehouse, Dublin on October 18th and 19th. The conference focus is node.js and the speaker lineup includes Richard Rodger, David Mark Clements and many more: Isaac Schleuter Mikeal Rogers Dominic Tarr James Halliday Felix Geisendorfer maciej malecki Rick Flakvinge Ben Noordhuis Daniel Shaw Owen Barnes Micheil Starzinger Max […]

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Irish Web Awards Shortlists Announced

The Irish Web Awards have announced the shortlists for this year’s awards. Some of the categories had over 80 entries, while the shortlists are down to 15.   Related articles Irish Web Awards Announce Headline Sponsor And New Categories (technology.ie) Irish Internet Awards Showdown? (technology.ie) Irish Web Awards Long Nominee List Out (technology.ie) Irish Web […]

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XKCD’s Randall Munroe Coming To Limerick

The University of Limerick’s computer society, Skynet, is running SkyCon again this year. This time round the event will take place over the weekend of October 6th and 7th and the lineup of speakers is pretty impressive. Randall Munroe, the guy behind XKCD, will be speaking, as will Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth. They’ll be joined by […]

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Irish Web Awards Breaks New Record!

We mentioned the nominations list was out for the 2012 Irish Web Awards .. What we didn’t mention, however, was that they’ve broken a new record Over 900 websites were nominated for the awards by over 350 people Damien Mulley, the awards organiser, was both delighted and a bit taken aback by the award’s success […]

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Irish Web Awards Long Nominee List Out

The “long” list of nominees for the 2012 Irish Web Awards has been published The list will probably shrink a small bit as the judging commences, as some of the sites will be disqualified for a number of reasons. You can check the list here. Related articles Irish Internet Awards Showdown? (technology.ie) Irish Web Awards […]

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Irish Internet Awards Showdown?

With “awards season” in full swing there’s been a couple of interesting developments in the last 24 hours. First off, Damien Mulley’s Irish Web Awards have reported their biggest number of entries to date. According to a report in the Business Post there have been over 600 entries so far. Meanwhile the Eircom Spiders have […]

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