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 […]
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 […]
The reactions and memes on Twitter (and elsewhere) to Katie Taylor’s win this afternoon are.. well see for yourself: Film star Samuel L Jackson: All of IRELAND Raise A Pint for Katie Taylor's Gold Medal Russian beatdown!! — Samuel L. Jackson (@SamuelLJackson) August 9, 2012 Pop duo Jedward: Katie Taylor has the coolest Bling Now […]
Google’s doodle today is interactive again and this time the theme is canoeing. As usual you can control the avatar using your keyboard, though this time round you can also control the canoe’s position using the “up” and “down” arrows, though that’s not indicated in the instructions [youtube]http://youtu.be/e3StGKCGc_Q[/youtube] Yet again when doing the screengrab I […]
Today’s Google doodle is sports themed again. This time round it’s basketball and yes, I still can’t play! Here’s a quick screengrab of it: [youtube]http://youtu.be/b2FPEXQfYK0[/youtube] Related articles Shootin’ Hoops – London 2012 Basketball Google Doodle Game (techie-buzz.com) Shoot Hoops With Tomorrow’s Interactive Google Doodle (mashable.com) Google’s Interactive Doodle Is Olympic Themed (technology.ie)
Google’s doodles are usually static images, but from time to time they have pretty slick animated ones. Today’s is pretty cool, though I didn’t do too well trying to control the little man in the animation: [youtube]http://youtu.be/kmSH26CbOL8[/youtube] You can browse past Google doodles on their dedicated site. Related articles Google London 2012 hurdles doodle lets […]
The New York Times is doing a series of visualisations of current Olympians compared with their historic counterparts. So far there are three sets available, the 100m freestyle (swimming), 100m sprint and the long jump. The visualisations use historic data and make it come to life so even those of us who aren’t that interested […]
While Netflix might be available in several countries, including Ireland, the biggest and most important market for the company remains the USA. So when reports came out that the service’s traffic was down 25% some analysts might get a bit worried. Netflix, however, are blaming the dip in traffic on the Olympics. Subscription based video […]
