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App of the day – Evernote
Platforms: iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and Android. Price: Free Download it from App Store and the Android market. This is definitely one of the most popular apps of the productivity category, awarded several times in the past year. Evernote helps you remember everything and stay organised, across different devices. You can edit text notes,...
Students – the future is clear, do your sums
The chief executive of the IDA, Barry O’Leary, has advised students who are currently choosing a college course on where future opportunities for jobs lie. Foreign direct investment (FDI) companies continue to create jobs and most are seeking graduates with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and maths. Many FDI jobs also require multi-lingual skills. Irish...
Electric Media lands eBay accounts
Ireland’s largest digital ad sales agency, Electric Media, has secured an exclusive deal to sell the combined eBay inventory for Ireland and the UK. Irish eBay traffic stands at 800,000 unique users with 51 million page impressions per month being generated. The deal with eBay.co.uk means its Irish inventory can be offered to its clients,...
Facebook continues to conquer the world
The rise and rise of Facebook is a media phenomenon on a scale never witnessed before. The world’s most populated social network is pretty much conquering every country it enters. Italian blogger and digital strategist Vincenzo Cosenza’s latest ‘World Map of Social Networks’ is an excellent illustration of Facebook’s increasing dominance. Cosenza tracks Facebook’s activity...
EU toughens its stance on web privacy
Digital giants like Facebook and Google are facing another bid by the European Commission to prevent them from using people’s data without their ‘explicit consent’. Companies like Facebook and Google make billions of dollars a year from collecting data on people who use their services. This data is analysed and packaged in such a way...
Access to Kauffman entrepreneurship programs
The Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG) and DCU’s Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship will now partner with the Kauffman entrepreneurship programs. The partnership aims to deliver Kauffman entrepreneurship and innovation programs in Ireland and Silicon Valley. The Kauffman Foundation, a world authority on entrepreneurial innovation and economic growth, has shown through its research that over 40%...
App of the day – Writing Kit
Platform: iPad. Price: €3.99. Available on Appstore. Writing Kit by Quang Anh Do is a new kit for iPad writers, with full Markdown support and easy ways to research while writing. You can use TextExpander snippets, edit documents anywhere with Dropbox, find reference materials, look up or substitute words from the Terminology app, insert quotes...
‘We built you a new Vimeo’
Video sharing site Vimeo is undergoing a long-awaited re-design. “We started by re-imagining the video page, and designed the entire user experience around it to minimise distractions and put the focus where it belongs — on your videos,” said the company. The video player on the video pages will soon be twice as big as...
Think you’re the future? Want a job in communications?
Youth communications agency Thinkhouse is hosting a ‘Future thinkers day’ in Dublin, on Tuesday, January 31 in a bid to secure the right candidate for a job on offer at the agency. The agency says the event is open to people “from all walks of life, any creative or media discipline, at any level of...
Outdoor digital advertising worth €25m
The combined value of the ambient and digital out of home market in Republic of Ireland for 2011 is €24.6m. ‘Traditional’ ambient media such as trolley handles, Citybox and pub based media accounts for €21.8m of this total with digital out of home media being valued at €2.8m for 2011. These figures are part of...
€1 billion worth of goods sold through DoneDeal in 2011
An astonishing €1 billion worth of goods was sold online through DoneDeal in 2011. This represents an increase of over €300 million from the previous year. In a county by county breakdown of the value of deals done for 2011, Dublin, Cork and Galway are the top three counties with the highest value of goods...
Irish Government ‘threatens Ireland’s digital economy’
A junior Minister of the current government intends to bring through the Dáil a new law that ‘threatens Ireland’s digital economy’. The law is being enacted by ministerial order. It is not being debated in the Dáil. The law closely resembles the SOPA Bill that was defeated recently in the US. Essentially the legal amendment...
