Top Irish Websites – Summer 2009
It is always interesting to see how Internet usage in Ireland changes over time. The latest update from Alexa.com suggests that while search is still the number one utility used by Irish net surfers,...
View ArticleLet’s Grow this Digital Ecosystem
Information Society. Digital Economy. Smart Economy. These are some terms we’ve seen used over the past years to describe the aspirations for where our Government in particular suggest that we want...
View ArticleSunday Tit-bits
Picked up a few interesting tit-bits in my usual very quick scan of the Sunday papers, Twitter, blog feeds and so on that I thought might be of interest: The big news of the week was the announcement...
View ArticleWhat the f**k is social media?
Social media is like teen sex. Everyone wants to do it. Nobody knows how. When it’s finally done there is surprise it’s not better. This is how Marta Kagan begins this impressive presentation on social...
View ArticleInforming Purchase Decisions
The resources we use to help inform our purchase decisions today have changed dramatically over the past few years. This was brought home to me recently as I was considering switching my broadband...
View ArticleTen things you can do on Twitter
What do you talk about on Twitter? This is a question I’ve been getting asked a lot lately by people who are hearing more and more about Twitter, but not sure what the point of it is. One thing to keep...
View ArticleCalling All Social Media Junkies
If you read this blog then you probably fit into the category of “social media junkie”; it is what I’ve spent a lot of the past year talking about, figuring out for myself at least how best to make use...
View ArticleGoogle Sidewiki – More Power to Ya
Web 2.0 is all about giving people on the web a voice. It is a shift away from broadcast communications to user-generated content. This is why it has been so popular as a movement or trend or whatever...
View ArticleIf we talked like that in real life…
Funny, but it misses the point that Twitter shout-outs can be very useful. I’ve had a bad weekend trying to install Windows 7 on my laptop. A tweet about it has resulted in a Microsoft employee, the...
View ArticleThe News, Brought to You Today by… Everyone
It has been an interesting week in Ireland, when the passion of football and the reality of flooding provided a distraction from the economic crisis and upcoming budget. It has been an interesting week...
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