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Bing is first engine to integrate Facebook ‘Likes’
And so it has come to pass. A major search engine (Bing) has integrated Facebook’s ‘liked results’ into its searches. Facebook already partners with Microsoft on a number of initiatives and Microsoft was an early investor in the budding social network. The fact Facebook ‘Likes’ are now fully integrated into Bing searches is the biggest...
PayPal’s goal is mobile ‘wave & pay’ domination
As online payments provider PayPal announced a further 150 new jobs at its European HQ in Dublin this week, the chief executive of eBay John Donahoe gave us a glimpse of PayPal’s potential. Over 1,200 people already work at PayPal’s European Centre of Excellence in Blanchardstown and its European business achieved $1 billion in revenues...
No better time to document these times
What a time for documentary film makers, perhaps the most interesting since the advent of hand-held 35mm cine cameras in the 1920s and 30s. Today’s digital film technology is accessible and affordable to a vast number of people in a multitude of economies. Social media has allowed film makers of all kinds the opportunity to...
Facebook’s plan to eradicate trolls* worldwide
Facebook’s next big move in the world of online publishing is the roll out of a commenting system that will power the comment feeds on large media websites and blogs. The social network is actively trying to recruit major media companies and blogs to ‘partner’ with it for the launch of the new comments platform....
Social viewing for ‘free’
As social TV takes off in earnest it makes sense that broadband providers would see an opportunity in its growing popularity. Magnet Networks has just launched www.magnetwebtv.ie, a free web-based live TV service with Twitter and Facebook integration. As long as users have a 1Mb broadband connection they can register to watch RTE1, Network 2,...
Try this for size on Facebook
As soon as we start writing about Facebook’s potential as a marketplace we hear news that Europe’s first fully integrated Facebook store has opened. ASOS (the UK’s largest independent online fashion retailer) used the Usablenet platform to extend its website’s e-commerce functionality to its Facebook page. ASOS users can now view, share and like items...
Turning your Facebook into a shop
While many businesses have pumped significant money and man hours into building their Facebook presence and communicating with their social network, most still see Facebook as a marketing channel. However, what they may not know is how easy it is to turn it into an effective sales channel. The term ‘social commerce’ is now a...
A Line Phone in the sand
A line has been drawn in the sand of the smart phone sector. Can it be stepped over? The Line Phone is still a concept but what a way to imagine the future of smart phone technology. This Chinese concept phone recently won the 2010 Furong Cup ‘Digital Product and Service Design Competition’. While today’s...
Continued growth in Irish websites
The managed registry for Ireland’s official web address .ie (the IEDR), has reported that the total number of .ie domains grew by 12.9% net in 2010 to 153,419 at 31st December. New registrations for the final quarter of 2010 were marginally up by 0.7% on the same period in the previous year to 8,593 bringing...
Facebook begins to nibble at Google’s toes
Why bother re-inventing the wheel? When it comes to making money online, it seems Facebook is simply taking a fat leaf out of Google’s big ad book. Latest figures from the US say Facebook booked $1.86 billion in advertising in 2010. The estimates from eMarketer reveal the $1.86 billion was an 86% increase over the...
An Irish Market in the digital age
The recent reports of a surge in Irish exports is one of the good news stories of an otherwise difficult past year for Irish business. Now that the Irish have woken from the inflated property illusion, it is heartening to see the emergence of a real market culture – a market defined by people selling...
