Last week Technology.ie went to TBEX, the world’s largest gathering of travel bloggers and travel industry professionals. TBEX Europe was held in Killarney, County Kerry, and our parent company Blacknight was a sponsor and exhibitor. Essentially the conference is a two-day event, but it gets padded out at both ends by several days of touring […]
We recently attended Bloggerconf in Dublin, where Blacknight was a sponsor and exhibitor. At the break, I took a camera around to discover who was there and what they thought of the event. Blogger events are going from strength to strength in recent years. It’s not so long since blogging was charitably viewed as a hobby, […]
Soundwave is a mobile app which helps you to discover music, allowing you to find what people are listening to in a specific area, or using other criteria. It works with other music services and apps, gathering intelligence on tastes and trends, which is made available for free to its users. As Gillian Bates explained […]
We had a great time at TBEX last week and you can expect to see more of the videos we made there over the next few weeks. But we weren’t the only ones there with cameras. In this video, TBEX CEO Rick Calvert spells out what TBEX is all about, and gives his impression of […]
Tapastreet is a brand new startup. Fresh from the Facebook hackathon on Wednesday, they came to TBEX knowing that travel bloggers would be excited to see their product. The thing about social media is that it wants to be discovered. We tag our content – hashtags, user tags, pingbacks – because we want to make […]
TBEX, the travel bloggers’ conference, is on in Dublin and bloggers from all over the world are being wowed by Irish hospitality and culture. Fáilte Ireland are headline sponsors of the event, and the delegates are still talking about the reception on Wednesday night which put Irish language and culture centre stage, and blew everyone […]
This week, technology.ie is at TBEX, the global conference which puts travel bloggers in touch with the travel industry. There are also some cool travel and blog related technologies here – but let’s begin with a chat with Lola Akinmade Åkerström. Lola is an award-winning writer, photographer, and blogger based in Stockholm, Sweden whose work regularly […]
