Evan Williams’ talk at TED: How Twitter’s spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses, watch it below.
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Digital Media Awards
The 2009 Digital Media Awards will take place on Friday 13th in the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Santry. Good luck to all on the shortlist.
doop’s Brian Greene and Sinéad Murnane were both on the Judging panel of the awards and will be presenting awards on the night. If you are coming along do let us know so we can hook up for a drink and chat.
24 hour Blipathon
doop’s Brian Greene, the most listened to DJ on blip.fm, is doing a 24 hour Blipathon in aid of the Children of Gaza on February 14th.
Brian needs blippers so let him know if you want to join in: blipathon@briangreene.com
ISANDS website launched
On September 15th the new website of the Irish Stillbirth & Neonatal Death Society (ISANDS.IE) was launched by the Minister for Health and Children Mary Harney T.D. at the Croke Park Conference Centre. Over a year in development the site is a complete rebuild of the previous site first launched in 1997.
At the core of the new site is a digital version of the ISANDS Remembrance Quilt, the digital version has borrowed from the grid pixel nature of the million dollar homepage, making the size and capacity of the new online digital quilt infinite.
The new site also incorporates a new donation & shop facility which uses Realex Payments as a payment gateway.
We would like to thank Ron Smith-Murphy of ISANDS. for her dedication and work on this site and Colm Lyon of Realex payments for his vision of web services for groups like ISANDS.
[pictured left to right:
miriam o’callaghan (MC), brian greene, colm lyon, minister for health and children mary harney T.D., ron smith-murphy, sinead murnane.]
More Details from www.isands.ie
Isands website
doop were commissioned to design construct a new website for Isands – the Irish Stillbirth & Neonatal Death Society, to facilitate the provision of information, a shop for resources, a unique online digital quilt to compliment their National Remembrance Quilt and a discussion forum.
WDA – Whelan, Dowling & Associates – website
Whelan, Dowling & Associates provide business financial services and advice and commissioned to doop to develop the company website.
MUZU – Website Interface Design
doop designed the website interface design for muzu.tv, an Irish music social network.
Rabo Direct Video Web Casts
doop’s web casting division Talking Voices completed a fifth round of recording of podcasts for Rabo Direct on September 8th 2008. The 5 podcasts will be released during the winter months. During the summer we added video podcasting to the media offering, providing webcast for RaboDirect.ie inside the ‘boot camp for money’. This was filmed June 3rd 2008.
social radio
blipping marvelous, it launched in May ’08 and exploded this August. blip.fm from Fuzz Artists, Inc is one vision of social radio. Radio from the bottom up not top down. When things are turned on their head the world can seem upside down, a revolution is taking place.
Radio listeners are being courted 1Kbit at a time via the web & the mobile web. My colleague Dean Whitbread explains blip.fm here (and I will not try to repeat his text here) and Mark Ramsey of Mercury Media Research shows a mobile vision of social radio here. coupled with efforts by radio’s vanguard like Rick OShea on RTE 2FM, who is using twitter & blogs to enhance the channels with listeners both on & off air, social radio is sparking and it is resonating with audience and by passing the powers that be.
Below are some of my blipped tracks. One thing I can add about blip, it’s lean forward & lean back radio, very clever. To discuss this more meet me in Kilkenny Sept 27th 2008 at podcamp ireland where I hope to demo the PSP version of ilikeradio player.
Irish Deaf Kids website
doop designed the identity and website for Irish Deaf Kids. Parents of deaf children need an online meeting-place to chat with other parents and exchange tips in a peer-support network. Irish Deaf Kids seeks to meet these needs, and to remind the parents of deaf children that they are not alone in their journey.
