IIA NetVisionary Public Voting Now Open
As mentioned yesterday, the shortlist of nominees for this year’s IIA NetVisionary Awards is now available. As of earlier this morning the public voting is now open – and it’s only open for 3 days! You can cast your vote for a number of categories: “You Did Good” – Best Use of the Internet for […]
Government Forcing ISPs to Block “Porn” – What Do You Think?
The UK government is pushing for ISPs and content providers to block access to “porn” by default. Do you think this is a good move or a bad one? Let us know by voting in our poll: The more people who vote the better! (NB: It’s completely unscientific .. ) Related articles Prime Minister: UK […]
Net Visionary Shortlist Announced
The Irish Internet Association‘s annual awards will be held on September 27th and they’ve published the shortlist of nominees today. Public voting on five out of the fifteen categories should open tomorrow. Full details on the official site. Disclosure: Blacknight is sponsoring the “Most Joyous to look at and splendid to use Web Design” category […]
Eircom Spiders Entries Now Open
The 2013 Eircom Spiders will be held on November 28th in Dublin’s Convention Centre – hopefully this year they won’t coincide with the Irish Web Awards! Nominations are now open, though unlike many of the other Irish Internet industry awards, the Spiders expect you to pay €150 per nomination. (You can get a 25% discount […]
Grand Theft Auto a first look at the game play
I’m one of those people who played the original Grand Theft Auto when it was first released and it blew me away. Top down viewing but … Anyways it looks like the first trailer of actual game play from the new game GTA5 it out [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-xHcvug3WI&feature=youtu.be[/youtube] I am in awe. The scale of these type […]
Web Design Development and Marketing Books Bundle
Most of the “bundles” that I come across are for software and usually for the Mac. However there is a growing number of sites that offer ebook bundles and BundleHunt‘s latest offering is one of them. For $25 you get 18 books which normally cost you nearly $300.
Youth Defence Site Hacked
While the abortion debate in Ireland isn’t technology related, this story is .. Youthdefence.ie is the site of an organisation (Youth Defence) described as: an Irish organisation that opposes legalisation of abortion. It was founded after the 1992 X case established abortion rights in the case of the mother’s life being at risk. It shares […]
Funny Parody Game Of Thrones
Unlike in most TV shows the creators of Game of Thrones aren’t afraid to kill off characters .. Inspired by this here’s “A Character I Used to Know”: [youtube]http://youtu.be/ZXSSBu9uKrM[/youtube]
New Irish Affiliate Network Simpl.ie Launch With Carlton and O2
If you are trying to advertise your site or service via affiliate marketing in Ireland you essentially have two options: Run your own affiliate program inhouse Tap into a 3rd party network such as TradeDoubler or Affiliate Window While TradeDoubler did have an Irish office they shut it down towards the end of last year, […]
Exploring Twitter’s Native Analytics
When Twitter started “wrapping” all hyperlinks using the t.co URL shortener they emphasised that the service would help the platform’s security. But, as they admitted, it was also going to give them access to metrics on how users’ interact with tweets. You can now access a lot of this data for your account via Twitter […]