Vine is now offering users the option to reserve their profile URL. So you’ll soon be able to direct people to a simple web address such as http://vine.co/username instead of the current quite random looking one. It’s not 100% clear when the web profiles will go live, but if you are a Vine user, or […]
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 […]
Elaine Larkin is a journalist and copywriter and she brought a professional media background to bear on her participation in Congregation, last month in County Mayo. She points out that the people you interview or quote for an article or blog post can help you to promote that story as well. It’s in their interest […]
Nowadays, Ryanair is all ribbons and kittens, engaged on social media and trying not to “unnecessarily piss people off”. Of course it’s nothing more than basic good customer relations, but back in 2009 they wore “Cheap and Nasty” like a badge of pride! And when Jason Roe blogged about a bug on their website, he was […]
Lorna Dollery won Best Blog Post at Blog Awards Ireland, for her piece on the reality of life for an Irish graduate. A media graduate, she thinks that blogging is essential for students and young professionals who are trying to get established in their field. Loading the player … Lorna has recently emigrated to the […]
It’s the social media equivalent of bumping into someone as a pretext to asking them on a date. (Does anyone actually do that? In movies maybe? OK, forget it.) Yesterday Twitter sent emails to several (not all) Twitter users inviting them to try Twitter’s advertising platform which has been extended to all “small and medium […]
The Irish Times is reporting that the Data Protection Commisioner, Billy Hawkes, has confirmed that the compromised credit card data at LoyaltyBuild had been stored in an unencrypted form – together with the 3-digit CVV number from the backs of the cards. When first reporting the breach last week, the company had claimed that all […]
I met Eoin Kennedy at the Realex Fire Irish Web Awards and he told me all about CongRegation – the social media unconference he’s organising in Cong, Co. Mayo on 30 November. “You can’t get tickets for this”, he warned. “You have to blog your way in.” Sounds like a novel approach. The basic idea […]
MerrionStreet.ie, the Irish Government’s news service, has just released a slick and funky video of a day in the life of the Taoiseach. What gives it a further technology ‘edge’ is the fact that they picked 30 October, which included Enda’s visit to day one of the Web Summit, where he rang the NASDAQ opening […]
The Irish Times reports that Facebook are planning to move to a new office near the Bord Gais Energy Theatre at Grand Canal Dock. The new premises will have room for 1000 more employees than are in their current offices at Hanover Quay. Although Facebook would not indicate if they had specific plans to increase […]
