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Irish Deaf Kids win at eGovernment Awards

February 22, 2010 – 8:25 am
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 Programme developed by Meath County Council and NUI Maynooth. more details here

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Bolton Trust Redesign and CMS

February 4, 2010 – 7:58 pm
The Bolton Trust are an organisation that promote new business enterprises in Ireland.  Having previously designed their website, doop recently freshened up the site's design as well as implementing wordpress cms in the back-end to allow them to update their 'news' section themselves. This worked so well that they came back to us asking for the entire site to be updateable using the same wordpress install. This involved rebuilding the code within wordpress whilst maintaining the original handcoded design.

Tags: Bolton Trust, CMS, design, website, Wordpress

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Online payment system for Tattersalls

January 15, 2010 – 11:45 am
In July 2009 doop were contracted to build an online payments system for Tattersalls Ireland Limited. Tattersalls bloodstock auctioneers hold 7 auctions per annum over 21 days selling 1000's of lots from their complex in Ratoath, Co.Meath. Traditionally vendors selling lots would pay entry fees of lots at the sale by cheque. The ability to pay entry fees online would provide an alternative payment method for vendors. Doop developed a bespoke entry system that captured all required details for multiple lots with a payments gateway to allow for the secure payment of the entry fees by credit card. The business implication of this installation for Tattersalls means that vendors have more control and access to payments and entries. Also the system has been so successful Tattersalls now see 60% of entry fees are now paid online and this figure is growing with each sale. The hidden benefit of this move to online payments is ...

Tags: auction, ecommerce, online payments, payment gateway, Worldpay

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After Social Networks, what next?

November 24, 2009 – 4:13 pm
This is an interesting Guardian report on an event hosted by the Said Business School in Oxford on Monday night. Some US entreprenuers spoke to a packed house with speakers including top execs from Paypal, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter. 'Ram Shriram, a founding board member of Google and one of the search giant's first investors, pointed discussion in a different direction. "Combining social and mobile – there is a new wave of oppportunities coming up, a growth of users, so mobile internet is clearly the next major computing cycle. And this time this didn't start in the US, but in Asia and Europe from where it is going to the US," he said.'

Tags: digital media, Mobile, social media, social network

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Route 66 – Website & Discussion Board

November 12, 2009 – 10:00 am
Temple Street Children’s University Hospital commissioned doop to build the Route 66 Motorcycle Challenge Website. The motorcycle challenge has been running since 2002 and Temple Street Children’s Hospital and Irish 66ers are already preparing for their 5th trip down “the mother of all mother roads” in 2010. The project included a website built around the wordpress publishing platform and a Discussion Board built around the Invision Powerboard system.

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Down Syndrome Ireland – website redesign

November 5, 2009 – 11:15 am
Down Syndrome Ireland's new website recently went live with a brand new design and the Joomla! content management system behind it. The site is designed to present a large amount of content and information through a friendly and easily accessible interface. The CMS allows DSI staff to easily update site content and documentation themselves. doop have been working with Down Syndrome Ireland for many years and continue to assist the organisation in utilising digital technology to spread their message and assist in fundraising.

Tags: CMS, design, digital media, Joomla!, website

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

October 2, 2009 – 7:44 am
[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, I’m happy to say that I can finally talk about them. Today, we’re announcing BumpTop 1.2, which contains some awesome new multi-touch features for Windows 7. Check it all out in the video, or read on for more details. You can also check out our full gesture guide. via BumpTop Gets Multi-Touch Support on Windows 7 – BumpTop Blog.

Tags: BumpTop, Windows 7

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Don’t worry about your ‘Keywords’ tag…

September 22, 2009 – 7:13 am
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 however that Google do use other meta tags such as Title, Content-Type & the Description tag as the text for search results snippets.

Tags: Google, Matt Cutts, meta tags

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

September 19, 2009 – 8:59 am
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 several seconds ago is being notified through Lazyfeed. "Lazyfeed is a feed reader intended for the ever-growing market of, as we wrote previously, "those of us who are too lazy for RSS feeds but still in the market for real-time, personalized blog searches." Internally, we've found the site incredibly useful. "To be frank, it's been so useful in churning up news items that I've been hesitant to discuss it publicly," Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote in a recent post. via Lazyfeed Implements RSSCloud/PubSubHubBub for "Real Real Time" - ReadWriteStart.

Tags: Lazyfeed, Pubsubhubbub, ReadWriteStart, real-time, rssCloud

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Eating Disorder Programme for St. Patrick’s Hospital

September 16, 2009 – 7:20 pm
The Eating Disorder Unit at St Patrick's Hospital was established over 15 years ago and caters for people with Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorders. doop were commissioned by St. Patrick's Hospital to design & develop a series of programme websites providing information and feedback to patients.

Tags: CMS, Eating Disorder Programme, Joomla!, St. Patrick's Hospital

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Voice chat coming to Facebook | Geek Gestalt – CNET News

September 16, 2009 – 8:51 am
Sometime in the next few weeks, the social network's tens of millions of users will begin to be able to have high-quality voice conversations, even as its third-party developers are able to start including voice in their applications. The new technology is not being offered by Facebook itself, however. Instead, it's from Vivox, a Boston-based company that provides the integrated voice service for virtual worlds like Second Life and EVE Online, and which already has more than 15 million users worldwide. via Voice chat coming to Facebook | Geek Gestalt - CNET News.

Tags: chat, CNET News, Facebook, second life, Vivox, voice

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Customize Your Web Modifies Web Pages to Your Liking – Firefox Extensions – Lifehacker

September 16, 2009 – 8:08 am
Login faster, rearrange Google, make the web look and work how you want it to with "Customize Your Web" - Firefox extension. Using Customize Your Web's WYSIWYG editor, you can change the appearance of elements, hide them, or copy and paste them somewhere else in the page. You can also add keyboard navigation or auto-executing macros. For advanced users, Customize Your Web also supports inserting HTML and JavaScript. Check out the demonstration video below for an overview of what Customize Your Web can do. via Customize Your Web Modifies Web Pages to Your Liking - Firefox Extensions - Lifehacker.

Tags: Customize Your Web, Extension, Firefox, Lifehacker

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Bing Pops With Visual Search – TechCrunch

September 15, 2009 – 7:25 am
[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 you will then be able to enjoy the visual search feature of Bing at bing.com/visualsearch...] For instance, if you type in “dog breeds,” it organizes them for you in a grid of images that you can scroll through using a slider on the right. When you hover over a particular image, it enters the name of that dog breed in the search box. And you can re-order the image results by size, breed, exercise needs, and Bing popularity. There are more than 100 visual galleries ranging from movies, books, and cars to products, animals, and sports teams. The sorting categories change each ...

Tags: Bing, browser, Microsoft, search, TechCrunch, visual

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Kellep Charles: Cloud Computing and Security Concerns

September 11, 2009 – 1:18 pm
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 and a weak economy, have accelerated interest in cloud computing. The concept of cloud computing pertains to an entity that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. These services can be private or public and are divided into three categories: * Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) * Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) * Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) via Kellep Charles Information Security Blog Space: Cloud Computing and Security Concerns.

Tags: cloud, cloud computing

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Access Gmail When It’s Down – Lifehacker

September 11, 2009 – 10:11 am
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.

Tags: email, gmail, Google

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YouTube – Social Media Revolution

September 11, 2009 – 9:56 am
YouTube - Social Media Revolution.

Tags: digital media, Facebook, social media, social network, social networking, twitter

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