Congrats to dbTwang featuring in the Sunday Business Post today. Our own Keith is the CEO of it and they’re brought in Gerry McQuaid, formerly of O2 to be on board too.
Author: Damien Mulley
dbTwanged – Business Post coverage of guitarist’s social network
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008Recruit Ireland understand Web 2.blah
Friday, August 1st, 2008Well done to Recruit Ireland who seem to have an understanding about how the 2008 web is working.
Not only are they doing RSS job feeds but they also have a Twitter profile and have an application for Facebook allowing people to search for jobs. They also have a Bebo profile, though no job search app on that just yet.
I’m most impressed with the Twitter profile because they’re using it in the best way it can be used.
It’s not broadcast. It’s interacting with people and has a person behind it. Too many people don’t realise that “social media” brings back most value when there’s a personality and a friendly manner. Blogs work best when it’s a person writing and interacting with people leaving comments though it could just be used to house press releases, Facebook could be used for a bland profile but it becomes more valuable when those connected to you get some banter back and likewise with Twitter, you can just use it to link to new blog posts (and this can be automated) or you can use it to interact and immerse with people.
See, the more human you make your business interactions with other humans the more value it has. That’s how social media works best. It’s harder work though, maybe that’s why so many companies take shortcuts and screw it all up? It’s great to see Recruit ireland become human. Their blog must be just around the corner so. 🙂
New Nooked and New stuff
Friday, August 1st, 2008
Nooked‘s website has been redone and they’ve launched a load of feed commerce website widgets. Feed commerce is a bit like VRM in that you control your shopping experience more by saying what you want and at what price and the offers come to you.
But Nooked allows you to display shopping widgets on your website, blog and social network profiles, the content of which you decide on and if your friends/visitors buy something, you get a cut. So you can have your own “Editor’s picks”. Be great if Google could offer the same for their not so great or relevant ads on their content network.
Right now they’re looking for UK based people to try this out as that’s where most of their partners are from. Hopefully they’ll expand into other areas and countries. Well done Fergus et al for this.
Fluffy Links – Friday August 1st 2008
Friday, August 1st, 2008New Irish music blog. Guess List.
IIA Online Marketing Course on Oct 7th on Limerick. I’m gonna go. Tis free.
Neil Gaiman is going to Dublin. I. Have. To. be. There.
It’s not content until it’s linked.
Ooooh yes. From the guy that brought us Helvetica is his new movie Objectified. Still being filmed but looks like one Jonathan Ive was interviewed.
The Superficial is a cheap and tacky gossip site. And I love it. Another indulgence of mine. This is a typical headline: Amy Winehouse hospitalized again, had a ‘reaction’ to her medication (Read: Crack + Methadone do not a good sandwich make.)
If you’ve seen Dr. Horrible, here is the real iPhone app that the Dr. uses for taking over a van.
Gordon shows how that Facebook advertising works.
Yeah, the shaky fight bits in the Dark Knight were annoying.
This is the short movie shown before Wall-E. I wanted to cut the rabbit’s head off. Annoying thing. It’s a bit too repetitive too.
Levi’s go a little gay:
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Perlico Advertising Complaints
Thursday, July 31st, 2008The industry run Advertising Standards authority brought out their latest report two weeks ago. Perlico show up a good bit. Here, here, here and here. All complaints about them were upheld.
Most of the complaints were about pricing issues and dodgy terms and conditions as well as this famous deceptive flyer but one was about the fact that Perlico billed their 1Mb broadband package as “superfast”. They aren’t allowed to do that anymore.
Dept of Comms refuses to disclose their telco assets
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Eames Solicitors sent in this Freedom of Information request:
Reports which relate to the telecommunications assets of the State or State owned bodies, one of which relates to Project Dingle.
The Department says yup, you probably mean this report: “Potential for Enhancing and Augmenting SemiState Telecommunicaton Assets”. Then tells them due to commercial sensitive information in the report and because of the deliberation process of Government decisions, they can’t provide it. Application refused. Eames appealed. Again refused.
All details here in this pdf and this one.
Uh, so why can’t the public find out what taxpayer paid for assets are and what the Government is doing with them?
Things you can say on a blog that you can’t to your “public”
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Sometimes you can be more open and honest with strangers than with friends and family. What can be too much information for a friend isn’t for some strangers. I think many blogs are handy confessionals, like post secret.
Unfortunately my friends who don’t blog are now reading this blog and many who read this blog have become some of my best friends so I seem to be hamstrung just a little when it comes to making this a dear diary thing. But almost like the way people ask philosophical-like questions at 4am while being half-stoned, why not go and ask in public a question or thought you had but kept to yourself?
Here’s my contribution:
How come within minutes of eating asparagus, your wee smells of it? It’s the same for coffee.
Photo owned by woodleywonderworks (cc)
Oh what, you thought I was going to be high brow or intellectual? Pah.
RTE Auction for an OLPC
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Money goes to charidee. Part of their Global Classroom week.
Winner gets an OLPC and the money goes to a third world charity. Current bid is around €60€150.
Surely a company will get into the bidding? G’wan.
10 years of Irish conversations
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Boards.ie are giving away all their collected data. That’s 10 years of posts and threads from massively massive discussion site Boards.ie and all now available for download. It’s a bold and open move. And very exciting.
And if that’s not enough, there’s a bloody big competition for people to do interesting things with the data. The most interesting apps or thingymabobs win prizes:
* The first prize is an Amazon voucher for $4000 (~€2500)
* The second prize is a voucher for $2000 (~€1250)
* The third prize is a voucher for $1000 (~€625)
See more here on John Breslin’s blog.
I’ve love a Google News/Boards.ie mashup and a timeline kind of thing. Pick a date from a timeline, see the main news from Google and then see how people on Boards.ie reacted.
Or pick a few brands that became over the past few years and plot the rise of them. Sociology and Anthropology researchers will have a field day with these things.
When was the first mention of x on boards.ie and the first use of “celtic tiger” etc. etc.
Screw Google’s zeitgeist, what was the most linked to site in 1998, 1999, 2003?
Well done the Boards.ie owners for doing such a thing.
Fluffy Links – Thursday July 31st 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008New Blogs:
Trust Tommy.
Ant Galvin’s blog.
Well finally, Sligo Today launched and they’re getting thousands of hits a day. Yeah, take that.
Heard Gerry O’Beirne on Pearl’s show on Phantom. No way will I pay $17.50 for a cd these days. or $15.50 for a digital download. Sorry.
Ben on his Mobile Me package.
XP on the OLPC seems to be shit.
Meanwhile some people think Vista rocks when told it’s not Vista. Hmm.
I’m a cynic but Obama would have known this would happen.
Dexter season 3. Yawn.
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