Tag Archives: web
Freedom of Tweets
“There is no news tonight” reported the BBC one April evening in 1930. History repeated itself in 2009 when the Guardian told its readers of a story it couldn’t report. In what the editor of the Guardian described as “a fantastic own goal” the oil trading company Trafigura managed to obtain a so-called “super injunction” [...]
Bogus Emails on the Rise
Tax payers in Ireland are being targeted by a British email scam the Irish Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) warned yesterday. The bogus emails, claiming to be from HM Revenue & Customs, advise recipients to claim tax-refunds worth £200 to £500. To receive the refund recipients are asked to complete an online form asking [...]
RTÉ’s Dilemma With DAB
The Irish Times ran a very interesting report by Jason Walsh last week concerning DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) Radio in Ireland. In the article Walsh discussed the slow launch of DAB and the challenge of choosing the correct DAB formats. Walsh perfectly summarises the challenge broadcasters face when choosing between higher audio quality and fewer [...]
Mashing my Thesis
“by 2010…(Mashups) will be the dominant model (80%) for the creation of new enterprise applications ” (Rust 2008) A few people have been asking me about my Multimedia Undergrad thesis so I thought I’d just take a few minutes to go over what we did. Mashup For my thesis myself and a few friends set [...]
Rail Fail
Just a short post this week. It’s almost second nature at this point, when we hear of a news story breaking, to run the nearest media outlet to get the latest updates. Indeed when Michael Jackson died in June the torrent of users who rushed online caused several big name websites, including Google, CNN and [...]
No, Teens Don’t Tweet but it doesn’t mean they’re not involved.
Neilsen Wire, the media and marketing information company, set the twitosphere alight this week when it announced that Twitter, despite is impressive growth, has failed to attract Teens. The Neilsen survey of 250,000 Internet users in the States showed that only 16% of under 25 year olds actively use the Twitter website; with the majority [...]
The Digital Divide Redefined
It seems like such a simple question-What is a browser? I was surprised and shocked to watch this video by the good people at The Next Web in which they ask regular punters on if they know what the difference is between a browser and a search engine. 92 percent of people didn’t.
Search isn’t hard to find
With Microsoft and Twitter launching new search engines later this year should Google, the worlds largest search engine, be worried? Probably…and they know it. Speaking at the Zeitgeist Europe 2009 Conference Google co-founder, Larry Page, acknowledged his company’s new competition “people really want to surf [in] real time and they [twitter] have done a really [...]