New TLDs, Plants And Playing Cards [Podcast #40]
This week Conn wasn’t able to do the show, so it’s my first solo gig. Thankfully I was joined on the show by a very gracious and understanding special guest – Pinky Brand. Sorry if the audio quality isn’t up to standard – I usually leave the audio stuff to Conn! Pinky has been working […]
Social Media: Facebook Wants You Before You’re Born
Social network behemoth Facebook is constantly adding new tweaks and features. Some of them make users happy, others upset them. But in a recent move the social media giant has decided to go after a whole new generation of users, or more precisely their mothers. So now you’ll be able to share the good news […]
Video: Disney Turning Plants Into Interactive Interfaces
No, this isn’t science fiction or fantasy. Disney is experimenting with using plants as interfaces to computers. The concept may sound a little different, so here’s a couple of videos to demonstrate the technology in action. [youtube]http://youtu.be/_uTJiEYI1ik[/youtube] From the description: The visitors communicate with living and artificial plants by reaching to and touching them and […]
Fun: Custom Facebook Playing Cards
There’s a growing number of fun products available that draw their inspiration, or content, from social media. One that caught my eye this morning – personalised Facebook playing cards. You choose 54 of your current friends from Facebook and build a deck of cards using their profile pictures. I’m not sure if they’ll still be […]
Irish Web Awards Announce Headline Sponsor And New Categories
The 2012 Irish Web Awards will take place on November 1st in Dublin’s Mansion House. Earlier this evening they announced that Realex Payments would be the headline sponsor (again!) and they also unveiled the category lineup for this year’s event. Several of last year’s sponsors are back and based on previous years sponsorship slots should […]
Short URLs Coming To Google+ Profiles
Google+ will finally be getting short and sane URLs for user profiles and business pages. The announcement was made (on the social network) last night by one of the Google+ staffers. At the moment the feature is only being made available to a “select” number of brand and personal pages and profiles. Examples include Hugo […]
Olympics and Social
The London 2012 Olympics were tracked, tweeted, “liked” and shared via multiple social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Youtube and many more. The guys over at SEO.com put together a pretty interesting infographic Related articles London 2012 Olympics: social media by the numbers (thesportsbank.net) Summer Games Social Stats – The ‘Olympic-Sized Consumption’ Infographic Predicts […]
Google To Penalize Copyright Infringers In Search
Search engine giant Google has announced a change to how it treats certain types of sites in search results. In a blog post the company announced that sites with a large number of copyright claims against them would be penalised: Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal in our rankings: […]
Cadbury’s Slick Olympics Advertising
Cadbury’s hired Dublin firm Publicis to produce their advertising for the Olympics (you can see some of the ads when you go on to the RTE Olympics site to watch the stream) The end result is incredible: Cadbury Olympic Idents from Publicis Dublin on Vimeo. TV Sponsorship stings for RTE’s coverage of the London 2012 […]
Agree to Disagree [Podcast #39]
Michele and I don’t see eye to eye on this week’s podcast. Facebook introduce real-money gambling: Michele says it’s just business. I think it’s the end of civilisation as we know it. Well, not exactly – but you get the picture! 🙂 We do agree that Katie Taylor is magnificent! In London, her supporters broke […]