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Google Notebook – Note This? Takes on Social Bookmarking!

It looks like Google has implemented a new “Note This� feature into the SERPS (Search Results Pages) over the weekend. The handy little feature allows you to quickly and easily take note of search results for later viewing within Google Notebook. This could be a big blow for some of the social bookmarking services. Form [...]

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3v prepaid virtual credit cards with no fee!

It seems that 3v have finally copped on that charring a €5 euro premium for a prepaid voucher is just nuts. For a limited time 3v are giving you your 5 euro fee back in the form of credit. With a €2.5 fee to get money back, you might actually lose out ..

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Coworking in Ireland

I have been toying with the idea of coworking for some time. For anyone that hasn’t heard of coworking yet, the concept is fairly simple: “Coworking is a movement to create a community of cafe-like collaboration spaces for developers, writers and independents” The concept itself is nothing new. Freelancers and small business have always teamed [...]

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Blog Awards Voting opens!

Voting has now opened over at the Irish blog awards. It seems that I was nominated for Best Designed Blog!! Thanks guys! Voting will close at 5pm on Friday February 16th. A shortlist will be announced soon after and judging will decide the winner of each category. Winners will be announced at the Irish Blog [...]

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Barcamp Saturday 20th (Tomorrow)

Just to give you all a heads up. I will be heading down to Barcamp Tomorrow.  Barcamp will be held in the ArcLabs Research and Innovation building in Waterford IT. If anyone wants to buy me a drink, It would be more than welcomed! More information can be found over at the Barcamp Wiki and [...]

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Serious email spam issue for Irish WordPress blogs.

After doing a bit of research on WordPress blog security I stumbled upon a wordpress Ticket #3142. This ticket describes an issue where every registered user that has logged into our blog can spy on the metadata of all other users by typing in a simple URL (This is after they sign up and activating [...]

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Fluff Zone 2nd Dec!

CSS Styling for Print and Other Media “There are many different media types that you can apply to CSS, some of which are more useful than others, and they let you specify the look, feel, or sound of the web page that is linked to the CSS files. In this section, we’ll look at the [...]

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Fluffy Links – 1st Dec!

Link Building Strategies: Video – Prime Example “One of the exciting trends in link building right now is leveraging video to increase interest in websites, as well as creating another reason for someone to link to your site.” .IE domain name dispute Q & A – Trademark Case “If a .ie is registered and has [...]

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Irishdev.com slip-up kills dole.ie!

Dole.ie provides a one stop shop for job hunters, the site spiders and indexes many of the larger Irish job sites. One of the notable features that dole.ie provide is a RSS feed. Many of the job sites that it spiders do not offer this service. According to a post over on boards.ie Webmaster/Flash forum, [...]

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Yo-Yo Search Results Experiment & Rankings

Over the last week I have been doing an SEO experiment. I have been Piggy backing on the funda Dublin coastal development exposure. This all started last Saturday when I made a post about the video that was produced by funda. Around the same time I had swapped over to my new template. When you [...]

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