What Goes Upworthy Must Come Down
Back in December we wrote about how Upworthy, the good news, fluffy, heartwarming, annoying, viral video meme site was dominating interactions (likes and shares) on Facebook. So have you seen as many Upworthy videos lately? Me neither. It’s possible that Facebook users just got sick of all the sweetness, but if so, they had a […]
Walter White’s Facebook Movie
I’m bad at Facebook. I don’t share. So when I go to Facebook’s new Look Back service, I don’t get a cool movie dramatising my social media career; I only get a few pictures. Somehow I can’t imagine Breaking Bad’s Walter White as the social media sharing type either, but it seems others can: [youtube]http://youtu.be/S6_w7lDQcCU[/youtube] […]
If Darth Vader Was on Facebook
If Darth Vader was on Facebook his “look back” movie might look a bit like this.. http://youtu.be/fLgMsW3Bduo
How to Raise Seed Funds and Venture Capital in Ireland
Via Shane McAllister on Facebook, here’s a great presentation by Helen Cousins of Xcel Business Solutions on How to Raise Seed Funds and Venture Capital in Ireland: How to Raise Seed Funds and Venture Capital (VC) in Ireland from Helen Cousins Related articles Online media hub PR Slides raises €500k in seed funding Enterprise […]
The Day We Fight Back in Galway
Tomorrow is billed as ‘The Day We Fight Back‘, against online surveilance. Michele has blogged about it earlier. It’s something we support here at Technology.ie because we believe that the erosion of trust caused by unchecked surveillance jeopardises the freedom and prosperity which is the promise of technology. If you are in Galway, there’s an information […]
Weirdest Font Ever?
Just because you can do something doesn’t mean that you should .. With that in mind we bring you the weirdest font we’ve seen so far.. You can see more of the font over here.
NUI Galway Gigapixel Photo Tags Students to Promote College
NUI Galway have come up with an inspired use of social media in their efforts to promote the college to new undergraduates, and they’ve recruited hundreds of ambassadors to help in the task: their own students. The result is a high resolution, taggable, zoomable and panable, gigapixel photograph taken in the historic quad of the […]
Ryanair First Irish Airline To Allow Electronics On Flights
Ryanair announced a couple of days ago that they had been granted permission by the Irish Aviation Authority to let passengers leave their “personal electronic devices” or PEDs on throughout their flights: Ryanair, Ireland’s favourite airline, today (6 Feb) confirmed that all Ryanair customers may – with immediate effect – use their PEDs (including tablets, […]
Speak Out Against Mass Surveillance
On February 11th thousands of websites will join in an online protest against mass surveillance. If you’re reading this post directly on our site you’ll probably see the banner down the bottom of the page. What’s it all about? Watch this short video to get the background and some insights into it: If you’d like […]
Facebook Look Back Walter White Edition
While my own “look back” video is plain odd this mock one for Breaking Bad character Walter White has gone viral: