Archive for the ‘industry’ Category

Irish Deaf Kids win at eGovernment Awards

Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Congratulations to doop designed www.IrishDeafKids.ie for winning at the 8th Annual Ireland's eGovernment Awards. At the awards ceremony in Dublin, IDK beat off stiff competition to win the Supporting Inclusive Education Category. Other websites short-listed in the same category included Bluebrick.ie, ArtLinks, the Irish Maritime Development Office and the Online Maths ...

Get all ‘Minority Report’ on your desktop with Windows 7 & BumpTop

Friday, October 2nd, 2009
[from BumpTop Blog] A while back, we gave you a sneak preview of some of the new multi-touch features we were hard at work on this summer. I showed off our basic gestures, but mentioned that we’re a few really cool gestures that I couldn’t tell you about yet. Well, ...

Don’t worry about your ‘Keywords’ tag…

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Google confirms that it doesn't use the "keywords" meta tag in their web search ranking. Matt Cutts of Google's Search Quality Team, says that because the keywords meta tag was so often spammed and abused, they began disregarding the tag years ago and see no need to change that policy. He stresses ...

Lazyfeed Implements RSSCloud/PubSubHubBub for “Real Real Time” – ReadWriteStart

Saturday, September 19th, 2009
Lazyfeed cofounder and CEO Ethan Gahng announced that the RSS reader is now supporting both RSSCloud and PubSubHubBub protocols, allowing for real-time integration of Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, and Feedburner content. "Our internal tests show that the service has actually become significantly faster," Gahng wrote. "Now some content from as recent as ...

Bing Pops With Visual Search – TechCrunch

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
[Always useful for a designer, Microsoft's Bing browser unveils it's brand spanking new visual search feature but only if you're set as a U.S. user, and you'll also need to download and install Silverlight... so just go to bing.com/worldwide and set your country as United States.  Save the settings and ...

Kellep Charles: Cloud Computing and Security Concerns

Friday, September 11th, 2009
Cloud computing has been receiving a lot of press in the IT mainstream media lately and all indications points to it continuing to be a hot topic for some time. Gartner.com stated in an article “Significant innovations in virtualization and distributed computing, as well as improved access to high-speed Internet ...

Access Gmail When It’s Down – Lifehacker

Friday, September 11th, 2009
Last week's Gmail outage is just the latest in a long series of outages in our favorite webmail application, but you don't have to let that stop you from accessing your email and getting things done. via How to Access Gmail When It’s Down - Gmail - Lifehacker.

In 8 Years, Online Video Consumption Will be Measured in Exabytes

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
One exabyte is a billion gigabytes. It's one quintillion bytes. And yes, "quintillion" is a number so large, it almost seems made-up. But that's how much online video will be consumed by 2017, according to new reports from U.K.-based research firm Coda. Actually, to be precise, they're claiming that mobile ...

TweetDeck Updates with Better Facebook, New MySpace Support – Lifehacker

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
TweetDeck is mainly a Twitter client, but it's been making inroads into helping you organize, search, and compress your other social networks in later versions. Adding columns is now a bit more intuitive and specific, as TweetDeck asks you which account the column should come from, and which aspects of ...

How to Download Facebook Photo Albums to the Desktop with a Click

Sunday, September 6th, 2009
There are a couple of reasons why you may want to download your Facebook Photo albums or that of your friends to the desktop: For viewing pictures even while you are offline. For sharing photo albums with family members who aren’t very ...

Determining Your Website’s Traffic On The Social Web

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
The social web has almost relegated website traffic to a shoulder shrug of a statistic for some. But the number of people of visit your website or blog is an important measure of your reach or exposure. However, many people make a mistake in analyzing or even determining a ...

Facebook Hogging The Internet | jatiN mahindrA doT coM

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Facebook has a lot going for it lately. They’ve got more than 250M users worldwide, they’re the most popular social network in almost every country in the world, they’re hiring in a down economy, and according to a new comScore report, 8.2% of all Internet ads are served on their ...

How the LMS market stacks up.

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
How the LMS market stacks up..

Required viewing

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later View more documents from Marta Kagan.

Twitter Uses

Friday, April 17th, 2009
Evan Williams' talk at TED: How Twitter's spectacular growth is being driven by unexpected uses, watch it below.   

Obama Media Guru in Dublin

Friday, February 27th, 2009
I attended the Joe Rospars (Digital Media Manager - Obama Presidential Campaign) guest talk on Wednesday night in the Camden Court Hotel having found out about it that morning.  Unfortunately I had to cancel my attendance at an IIA event that evening but felt that there wouldn't be many opportunities ...