February 3rd, 2012
A new survey from Pew about Facebook has thrown up some startling revelations about how we all use the service. The stand out figure from the survey was the fact that if you enabled the “friends of friends” setting and you han above average amount of connections then millions of people could be looking at your photos. As they Read More
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February 3rd, 2012
For the 50 million people who use Dropbox, you can never have too much free space for uploading your images, files and videos. However for free accounts, they cap the storage space to 2GB, but for those testing out a new photo import feature to automatically upload photos, they can get an extra Read More
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February 3rd, 2012
With over 200,000 companies using their service, its safe to say that social media business site Yammer has become a quiet success in its own right. Now as we come into February, the company has revealed some of the more striking statistics from 2011, and have experienced growth in three key areas. The first being the number of corporate users which increased from 1.6 million to 4 million, the number of paid sales grew from Read More
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February 3rd, 2012
Ireland (and Dublin in particular) is a fantastic place to be in digital. Sure, look who’s here – Google, Facebook, Zynga, LinkedIn, etc, etc, etc. All the big guys are here (nearly!). And lot’s of little guys too – DublinWebSummit, Tapadoo, Vlearning,
So, Dublin is definitely a good place to start your digital business. And there is plenty of help for budding entrepreneurs (much of it Enterprise Ireland Read More
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February 3rd, 2012
Despite Apple’s stringent nature with regards to putting up new apps on their store, their rigorous approach has meant that the apps available are, for the most part, safe to download. Google’s Android Market gives developers less hoops to jump through, but that has increased the number of malware apps that are available to download from the store.
Trading security for accessibility may Read More
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February 3rd, 2012
There has been a lot of speculation recently regarding a revamp of Facebook’s brand pages. As we speculated last week, many are expecting a February 28th rollout, which is only a few weeks away. But what will these new brand pages look like?
Well, the best indicator of Facebook’s brand page improvements are usually derived from profile pages. When Facebook overhauled profile pages in 2010, brand pages were soon to follow, in the very same Read More
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February 2nd, 2012
Google have been ordered by a French commercial court to pay €500,000 to a French mapping company after it was found guilty of abusing the dominant position of its Google Maps application.
The Paris court upheld an unfair competition complaint lodged by Bottin Cartographics against Google France and its parent company Google Inc. for providing free mapping services to some businesses. Bottin Read More
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February 2nd, 2012
If you aren’t already on the visual sharing site Pinterest, then consider this another reason (among many others) to sign up to the service. It has experienced the fastest growing site in terms of referral traffic than any other social media site. Its volume of traffic is so great that if you combined the referral Read More
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February 2nd, 2012
With the capabilities of Facebook’s open graph only beginning to be explored, career site Glassdoor have announced their new job search app ‘Inside Connections’, which helps you find a new job and see where your friends work via your Facebook account.
Effectively an extension to what the site already does, the app scours your friends on the site and see what jobs are on Read More
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February 2nd, 2012
For the last couple of years, I’ve been writing about the huge challenge Facebook faces when it comes to asserting its social networking dominance as consumers move from the desktop to mobile devices. The numbers within the Facebook filing for its IPO were certainly impressive. Nothing really unexpected within the tech community, but the traditional Read More
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