Category Archives: Social Media

‘Free your film’ competition announced

Friday, 23 July 2010 10:37
Written by Stephen

Actor Sarah Bolger officially launched the ‘Free your Film’ mobile video competition on behalf of the Darklight Festival and Sony Ericsson. The competition aims to find three aspiring film makers in Ireland, and help them make a short film each. The competition finalists will receive a €3,000 budget, a Sony Ericsson VivazTM HD video/camera phone and [...]

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The world’s first personal, social magazine

Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:27
Written by Stephen

This is a good idea. The Flipboard claims to be the world’s first ‘personalised social magazine’. It has been launched as an app for the iPad and essentially it offers users a packaged collection of all the news, features, videos and images circulating within their social networks.

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Death knell for email marketing?

Wednesday, 21 July 2010 08:30
Written by Edward

We don’t have much of a sweet tooth around here, but news of Ben and Jerry’s decision to drop email marketing in favour of social media has got the taste buds working. This is the first major brand to act on the long-held assumption that email is “for old people”. Boston College stopped issuing email [...]

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O2 announces data plans for the iPad

Tuesday, 20 July 2010 11:28
Written by Stephen

O2 announced it will offer dedicated data plans for iPad with Wi-Fi + 3G in Ireland. The iPad data tariffs will be available without a minimum term contract and include free access to Bitbuzz Wi-Fi hotspots in Ireland. The O2 micro SIM pack for iPad will contain full set up and registration details and customers will [...]

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The early days of the empire

Friday, 16 July 2010 10:19
Written by Stephen

Here’s the full length trailer of Director David Fincher’s The Social Network, a film about Facebook and the early days of its foundation, (the haunting cover of Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ is by Vega Choir). Jesse Eisenberg plays Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, which already looks like perfect casting.

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