Video: Can You Stare Down Liam Neeson?
Irish actor Liam Neeson’s latest movie, Taken 2, went on release last week. He’s developed a reputation as a big screen hardman, so could you stare him down? Now you can try with this ten hour long Youtube video. Yes – it’s ten hours long. Why anyone would want a ten hour long video clip […]
The Scoble Impact?
Robert Scoble linked to one of our posts last week on Facebook and also retweeted a tweet about it. The impact on some of the metrics caught my eye: I’ve intentionally blanked out the number of retweets, mentions and clicks, as I was more interested in the “potential” metric. 297k! That’s big. But when I […]
Wiki Weapon [Podcast #45]
Brought to you by Blacknight, it’s the technology.ie podcast with Michele and Conn. Our guest this week is Patrick Donaldson, Registrar Liaison with ICM Registry, the company behind the XXX domain extension who’ve just launched a new search service. We discuss that – and also Metacert’s new Child Safe Browser. A new report says the […]
Google E-County Events In Galway, Tralee and Waterford
As part of the Getting Irish Business Online initiative Google are organising a number of free events this month. They’ll be in Galway on October 15th in the Radisson, Tralee on 19th October and finally Waterford on 22nd October. The events are aimed at Irish businesses that do not have an existing online presence and […]
Apple Tribute To Steve Jobs
Today marks the first anniversary of the death of Steve Jobs. Apple has dedicated the entire frontpage of their website to a tribute video. Here it is: There’s also a message from Tim Cook:
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 […]
Breaking: Facebook Breaks One Billion Active User Mark
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning that the social media network now has 1 billion active users each month. They had hit the 500 million user mark just two years ago in July 2010 Here’s the full text of the announcement: This morning, there are more than one billion people using Facebook actively each month. […]
Google Dumping Adsense For Feeds
Google, like a lot of big companies, constantly revise their product and service offering. The latest product to get the chop is “Adsense for feeds” Adsense for feeds allows bloggers to place adverts directly into their RSS feeds and earn money from it. I’ve no idea how much money some of the bigger blogs were […]
Gangnam Style Sans Music
Psy’s Gangnam Style has been a huge sensation. Imagine the music video without the actual music – well you don’t have to, as one YouTube user has done all the work for you. NB: the sound effects can be pretty loud [youtube]http://youtu.be/f6ZSZbNfSpk[/youtube]
Croatian Startup To Power US Presidential Debate Twitter Interaction
UX Passion hail from Zagreb, Croatia. They’ve got a couple of interesting and cool things in the works, but their flagship product has been up and running for the last year or two – Wall of Tweets. It’s been used at a lot of tech events around Europe over the last couple of years and […]