by Jason Roe
on 16. Apr, 2009
in Jason Roe
The IIA are holding their national congress on Thursday 21 May.. The slant is Better Business Online .. Money, Marketing, Monitoring & Mobile. Speakers include Facebook – speaking at the largest Internet industry event in Ireland to date – Google, dotMobi and Realex Payments. Id be up for going to Ronan Harris’s (Google) talk on [...]
by Jason Roe
on 06. Apr, 2009
in Technology
I was interested to find out how to get Meteor Broadband to go working on Ubuntu. I found a number of threads on forums about the topic, but no one had found the answer yet. Meteor don’t pitch this product as supported on Ubuntu / Linux.. but I found a number of blog/forum posts that [...]
by btw
on 03. Apr, 2009
in BTW Meetups
Id like to say a big thanks to everyone who came to the April BTW in Dublin. We had over 58 people show up!! I hope you all had a great time. Photos via Fergal Byrne are up on pix.ie. We hope to run the Dublin BTW aka Blogger-Twitter-Whatever (BTW) meetup. event every two months. [...]
by Jason Roe
on 18. Mar, 2009
in Jason Roe
So we all had a great day thanks to pix.ie. Myself ellybabes and grannymar had some grandstand seats up on Parnell square. Check out the pix.ie Paddy’s day group today for everyone’s photos. You can see my other pics here ..
by btw
on 13. Mar, 2009
in BTW Meetups
As part of the latest round of ad-hoc meet-ups in Dublin (Ireland) , we decided to run another Blogger-Twitter-Whatever (BTW) meetup. The plan is to meet up at the Porter House central from 6pm on Thursday 2nd April. (Porther house central – bottom of grafton street, across from the molly malone statue). We will get [...]
by Jason Roe
on 07. Mar, 2009
in Jason Roe
I’m loving this! Check out what the guy’s from Made In Hollywood sent me today, a Lunatic Bloggers polystyrene sculpture in the shape of an aeroplane.
by Jason Roe
on 07. Mar, 2009
in Jason Roe
I’m surprised that no one has blogged this yet! IQ Content have announced a “Dans le merde” €10,000 prize for the best business plan for a web app. In his “Yet another web app or successful business?” talk Morgan compared Ireland of 1977 with the Ireland of 2009. As in 1977 Ireland is currently “dans [...]
by Jason Roe
on 28. Feb, 2009
in Jason Roe
On a slightly lighter note.. The guys over at pix.ie, in conjunction with the Irish St Patrick’s Festival are trying to muster up support for a huge photo sharing project. The project aims to help document this year’s paddy’s day festival. Genius! what better way to show the Yanks that we are still up for [...]
by Jason Roe
on 22. Feb, 2009
in Jason Roe
This just came to mind this morning.. It might be nice if all of the 108′ish bloggers who attended the Irish blog awards 2009 and stayed at the Cork International Airport Hotel say thank you. What better way to do that, but to post up your review of the hotel on Trip Advisor ( http://short.ie/cia-hotel [...]
by Jason Roe
on 21. Feb, 2009
in Marketing, Web Design & Development
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 [...]