The performance matters


Okay, so this isn’t a blog post about digital marketing but it certainly is one of the best examples of how useful digital media can be. While 96.7% of all content on YouTube is dross and nonsense, it is also the world’s largest server for video art and performance art. Please don’t watch this video if you are over sensitive to Man’s pathetic condition and can’t stand to be reminded of the true depth of our collective, post-modern, existential futility. Otherwise fire ahead and enjoy. Olivier de Sagazan appears to have swallowed the lurid ghost of Beckett with the oil paints from Bacon’s last studio. And for that he must be admired.

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Twitter, Skype and Last.fm founders to visit Dublin

Jack Dorsey, creator, founder and chairman of Twitter (pictured); Niklas Zennstrom, founder of Skype; and Michael Breidenbruecker, founder of Last.fm will attend a conference in Dublin in late October. The conference, simply known as Founders, is the work of a group of young European tech company founders and will be an invite only event, which will be attended by 100 high profile attendees. Keynote speakers include Dr. Justin Lin, chief economist of the World Bank, and Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament. The CEOs of the IDA and Enterprise Ireland will present to the attendees. An Taoiseach, Brian Cowen T.D., will also address the group.
Some Irish company founders are on the organising committee, including Eamonn Fallon (Daft Media), Dylan Collins (Jolt Online) and Iain MacDonald (Weedle). Barry O’Leary, CEO IDA Ireland, said, “This is an excellent forum for IDA to engage with the CEOs of many of the world’s fastest growing technology companies and to share insights on future trends.” It may also be a good opportunity to show the founders of these tech giants all the affordable, available office space in Dublin.

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Developing apps for Nokia smart phones made easy

The second Ovi Developer Day took place yesterday in the Arrol Suite at the Guinness Storehouse. The primary theme of this event was “App Development Made Easy”, with presentations from Nokia’s technical consultant Riku Salminen, who demonstrated different ways to develop for the Ovi store. The event also covered developer support and overviews of the market, alongside discussions with Forum Nokia representative Greg Merten.
Salminen also discussed the support available on forum.nokia.com for would be developers and seasoned programmers. Read More »

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Interacting with the suburbs – an Arcade Fire project


This is pretty cool. It’s an interactive music video for Arcade Fire’s ‘We Used to Wait’ single from The Suburbs album. You will need to launch Google’s Chrome browser and type in your address (Dublin comes up). The HTML5-enabled engine will then use multiple Chrome windows and Google maps to take you on a journey of the area you grew up in. The two behind the concept are @radical.media director Chris Milk and Google’s Aaron Koblin. Production is by B-Reel. Click here http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/ to see what’s what, but you will need to use the Chrome Browser for the full effect.

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252,000 Apple apps and counting

Here are some key updates and stats on Apple’s App Store. There are over 50,000 registered Apple app developers (and growing). The US App Store now has over 252,000 apps on offer – 70% of these are paid apps and 30% are free. The average cost of an app is $2.67 but 33% of apps sold cost just 99c.
In the last 30 days the average number of applications from developers for new apps stood at 626 per day. That’s over 18,000 in one month. The average time it takes to get an app approved by Apple has fallen from 8 days in June to 6.7 days this month.
The most expensive app in the store costs $999. It’s called the ‘I’m Rich’ app and one dumb person actually bought it – http://gizmo.do/3HPmXE.
The Appys with The Carphone Warehouse are open to all app developers, across all platforms. Closing date for entries is September 30th. Go to www.theappys.ie for more details.

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