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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...
Obama to hangout on Google+
As he gears up to fight another Presidential election, President Obama is getting back on the social media train. In what can only be described as a major coup for Google, the President will take part in a hangout video chat on Google+ on January 30. President Obama is famously the ‘first social media president’...
New opportunity for young documentary makers
Calling all budding film and documentary makers. The RTÉ TV Documentary Unit and Filmbase are launching ‘Doc on the Box’: a new initiative designed to encourage emerging voices in video documentary direction and production. The competition (open to over-18s) offers a single, three-month contract to one individual to produce, direct and deliver a 25-minute, original...
Jameson renews sponsorship of film festival
Jameson is to renew its sponsorship of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival (JDIFF) for the next three years. The festival is 10 years old this year and will present over 130 films over eleven days in cinemas and film venues throughout the capital. “Cinema is an intrinsic part of our global marketing strategy for...
App of the day – Pinterest
Platforms: iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch) Price: Free. Available on the Appstore. First of all, if you have never heard of Pinterest, here’s a brief description: “It’s a Virtual Pinboard. It lets you organise and share all the beautiful things you find in your life. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and...
Twitter buys media start up Summify
Twitter has bought Summify, a Canadian news-filtering startup for an undisclosed sum. Summify, a mobile app that automatically gathers articles that are shared across social networks and presents them to users in an easy to read format, will now close down as it merges with the Twitter machine. “Our long-term vision at Summify has always...
Don’t believe the critics – iBooks2 is awesome
Apple’s iBooks 2 app, launched yesterday in New York, is a genuinely revolutionary product. But, like all revolutions, it has its detractors. The people who were quick to sneer at it, however, should take another look. iBooks 2 is going to change the world of publishing forever. Essentially the iBooks 2 app allows anyone with...
