A friend was on MSN today, and basically asked “What’s this Twitter business, and what use might I get out of it?”. Twitter, unless you’ve been hiding under a big old rock, has been taking the internet by storm and particularly since the start of 2009. It’s been a relatively slow burner having launched in [...]
Remember Letsbuyit.com? Back during the dotcom boom of the late nineties and early noughties it was all over the place, with TV ads, billboards, and all that overhyped jazz. It was basically a ‘co-buying’ site whereby groups of customers got together to purchase goods online. The more people who bought something, the cheaper it was. [...]
Like it or not, we’re in a period of economic recession and, for some, times are very hard. Even if your business is doing well and you’re at least treading water, you should take this opportunity to make your business a leaner operation. Here’s a few tips to help you save a few quid.
Setting up a business is one of the most exciting things you’ll ever do, especially when it’s your first time. However the one thing that usually puts a dampener on all the fun of going it alone is the boring process of preparing and filing accounts. I’ve previously blogged about fantastic web based accounting software [...]
The Fallon brothers don’t surprise me anymore. They’ve just announced an absolute stormer of a deal with the giant that is eBay, to power eBay.ie’s property search section. Not only is this a coup for Daft.ie which will firmly leave the likes of MyHome.ie trailing even further behind, it is a great symbol of just [...]
After much fanfare and pre-show hype, the Irish version of Dragons’ Den has turned out to be a very big disappointment. Let’s be in no doubt here, the producers have followed the format perfectly and the production of the show is excellent, but the quality of lot of the participants and some of the Dragons [...]
Google Adsense has been around for several years now, and in that time Google have refined and expanded the range of tools available to publishers to monetise content. The internet is full of articles - some bullshit, some not - about how to earn more from Google Adsense, but here’s a few tips for you [...]
With Cowengate fresh in our minds, and people wondering why the Gardai are trying to track down a hilarious artist instead of doing other valuable things, here’s a funny video from the guys from Langerland.
Ryanair have made yet another cost-cutting move which is an industry first - they’re moving to Web Check-In only from October. However, it doesn’t seem clear from their press release whether it will be free or not to check in on the web, or whether a new check in charge will be part of the [...]
Via Dries Buytaerts website, news that open source stuff is secure enough even for Governments to use. Barack Obama has been doing loads of great things over in that there America since he came into office, and he’s decided to get a site going - Recovery.org - to keep US citizens up to date with [...]
