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Pay walls going up for Irish traditional media

This week a number of Irish regional news websites have started charging for content. Chances are that you haven’t already spotted this. I say that this because if you are anything like me, you probably consume media a lot differently than the masses. Before I start, I want you to know that I was previously [...]

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Free customised blogs for Irish Hotels!

Last week, I went to a really interesting session about hotels and bogging set up by Ciara Feely. Keith Bohanna was speaking to a group of hoteliers about promoting themselves via blogs / twitter. I found it quite interesting that the first barrier for most of the hoteliers was the lack expertise to set up [...]

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Property pron an interesting trend!

I spotted this trend on google a few weeks back. It seems like Irish people have something new on their mind (an interesting mindset). The graphs look like a mirror image of each other. Maybe daft.ie should move into the adult entertainment business… Updated.. made this Safe for Work

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Geansai Gorm in Barcamp Cork

I’m heading down to barcamp cork later this evening. The plan is to fly down on the 20:20 flight with Ryanair. Hopefully I will see you all there! If anyone is staying in the lancaster lodge let me know as a few of us staying three. On another note Geansai Gorm has been launched by [...]

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Myspace Trademark – Brand Marketers, Feeders and Marketplaces

In April, Dave Davis from redfly marketing reported on the impact of MySpace registering their trademark with Google. This trademark caused many home grown MySpace fan sites to take a hit because of the lack of Adsense opportunities. Issues like this highlighted the risk surrounding niche bottom feeder sites. Brand feeders tend to latch onto [...]

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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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Search Marketing world in review

As you know, search marketing world was on yesterday in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham. I must admit, this was an amazing venue to pick for such an event. It had the old school nature of the 17th Century with a strange twist of Modern Art everywhere! Enough about the venue how was the event? I [...]

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Search Marketing World meet up

This may be at short notice! Im trying to arrange a meet up before, during, or after the search marketing world 2007 event that will be on 20th March (Next Tuesday). More details about the every can be found over at the search marketing world site. Would anyone be interested? Drop me a comment with [...]

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