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The applications revolutionising the magazine industry
There are a raft of applications for smartphones and tablets that aim to replicate the magazine reading experience but in a way that reflects the user’s preferences. Google’s Currents application, for example, allows Google account holders to download content from a variety of preselected publications such as the Daily Beast and Fast Company. It also...
Building sites that work
Top of any company’s digital strategy should be its website. A website is a company’s 24/7 sales person, the shop window that often creates the first impression. Stephen Conmy spoke to Martin Casey about what matters most when it comes to creating a solid digital strategy. Having previously co-founded and run Zartis, a web services...
Twitter’s media influence outshone Facebook in 2011
Facebook may be the planet’s largest social network but Twitter gets the most coverage in the international press. Some people don’t think Twitter is a social network, they believe it’s a live information stream and breaking news service created by its users. Others believe it wouldn’t exist without the social element at the centre of...
Facebook looks to award and recognise advertisers
Facebook, the world’s second biggest publisher after Google, has two advertising awards that aim to drive creativity and results from agencies and advertisers. The Facebook Studio Awards will recognise the agencies behind the best Facebook campaigns of 2011. Judging is based on the following criteria: • Is the campaign social? Are people and social interactions...
Google plans risky entry into the tablet sector
Google chairman Eric Schmidt has said Google will launch a tablet computer within the first six months of 2012. The Google tablet will run on the Android operating system (OS) and will aim to compete not just with the iPad but with other tablet computers built by Samsung and HP. In an interview with an...
Most popular games on Facebook in 2011
The most popular game on Facebook in 2011 was, surprisingly, Playdom’s Gardens of Time. Why surprisingly? Because it’s the first time in years that Zynga hasn’t had a game in the top spot. The top ten is stuffed with Zynga games, but Gardens of Time, a hidden objects game won out while Cityville by Zynga...
Newspapers gaining millions of readers – but fewer people buy papers
Very few people are now in doubt as to the future of the newspaper industry. Very few people believe its future lies in print. 2011 was another year of newspaper casualties, both local and national, all across the western world. However, some newspapers are still smiling, due mainly to their enormous online reach. The Guardian...
Spell it like it is Fry
We like the Spellathon app fronted by Stephen Fry. Inspired by the American Spelling Bees, Spellathon was launched a month ago and is the world’s first digital spelling championship. The new Android and Apple apps compliment the online competition. Players can also qualify to compete against Fry online at the global championships in March 2012....
SQS announces 20 more software jobs for Ireland
Software testing firm SQS (Software Quality Systems), says it will expand its Irish office and create 20 specialist software jobs in 2012. The expansion will see experienced software quality engineers, software testing managers, performance engineers and software test analysts bring its Irish workforce to 120. “Today’s announcement is positive news [and] is very much driven...
RTÉ Player apps for iPhone and iPad launched
The RTÉ Player apps for iOS platforms are now available to download free to all Irish and international audiences. The apps, which were presented to a public audience at the Dublin Web Summit this October and promised a pre-Christmas launch, are consistent with the desktop version of the RTÉ Player. iPhone and iPad users are...
Tourism Ireland’s social media campaign wins in the UK
Tourism Ireland won three awards at the 2011 DMA Awards in London recently. It won awards for its social media campaign, called “Nick and Sam’s Ireland Road Trip”, in the following categories: - Gold in the travel and holidays category; - Bronze for best use of social media; - Bronze for best integrated campaign. The...
YouTube’s top 10 videos of 2011
In 2011 YouTube served up over one trillion views for the first time. One trillion. That’s 1,000,000,000,000. However, judging by YouTube’s top 10 videos of 2011 it appears people mainly use YouTube to watch inane pop videos, talking dogs, crazy babies and the odd revolution and natural disaster. What this says about human nature in...
