High Street Retailers Feeling the Pinch
It’s been a pretty bad week for high street retailers. Earlier this evening it was announced that HMV Ireland has been put into receivership only a couple of days after the company was put into administration. Also today Blockbuster in the UK announced that they have gone into administration. The company has over 500 stores […]
Geektastic Valentine’s Day Badges
The guys over at Spike Badges are offering a range of rather geeky Valentine’s Day buttons. I’ll be ordering a few later today 🙂 Full details here
Irish Horse Meat Memes
Horse meat or, more specifically, horse DNA, made its way into some meat products being sold in Irish supermarkets. You can read about the story over on The Guardian (we’re avoiding Irish newspapers at the moment!) So of course the Irish internet community had to find the funny side. Here are a couple of the […]
Value of “Long Tail” SEO
If you do any work in marketing and SEO you’ve probably heard about “long tail” The guys at HitTail have published a pretty nice infographic explaining it for the rest of us: Via
Instagram Reminds Users of Terms of Service Change
Remember the Instagram debacle? While the company may have listened to users’ outrage (and there was a lot of that.. ) they’ve still made changes to their terms of service, although the changes are much less drastic than the originally planned ones. In an email sent to users of the service today the company underlines […]
Social Media For Business – 5 Types of Follower You Need
Vocus have produced a graphic showing what they class as the “5 types of social followers your business needs” The 5 classes of follower are: The early adopter The social sharer The born follower The popular powerhouse The basement dwelling hater Not only do they provide 5 simple classifications but they also provide a rationale […]
CBS To Let Viewers Choose Episode Outcome Via Twitter
CBS will be airing Hawaii Five-O in the US this evening in a prime-time spot. That’s not newsworthy, but the TV channel has recorded three separate possible endings for the episode. Viewers of the show will be able to vote on which of three “viable” suspects is guilty in real-time via Twitter and the TV […]
White House Staff “Get” Star Wars But Reject Death Star Proposal
While some governments seem to have “issues” with moving towards a more “open” government and recognising their citizens wishes, the US government seems to be doing quite a good job .. At least they’ve got a sense of humour and are familiar with popular culture. When someone started a petition on the White House site […]
Cookie Law [Podcast #55]
Brought to you by Blacknight it’s the technology.ie podcast, episode 55 for January 11th 2013, with Michele Neylon and Conn Ó MuÃneacháin. Newspaper link debacle update.  Plus – the backlash against twitterphobia! Blacknight launches WhoOwns.it. Google might escape the FTC but EU’s gunning for them now.  (Flashback to Google ubiquity in 2006).  EU is also concerned about how companies are […]
Chilling Effects 2012 Report Shows Significant Increase In Takedown Requests
Wendy Seltzer gives a fascinating, albeit quick, overview of 2012 from the Chilling Effects perspective. Chilling Effects aggregates takedown notices from copyright holders under the US DMCA as well as other laws in other jurisdictions. The numbers for 2012 are staggering. Over 53 million takedowns versus three million in 2011! The talk is just over […]