Archive for the ‘Business News’ Category

Your websites performance impacts shopper behavior

I suppose it is common sense that if your website is slow to render that your customers will be dissatisfied…


AJAX “crawls”? Google to the rescue!

Google has offered their experience and support to make AJAX sites easy to crawl. Sounds like a win-win?


So newspapers, TV and twitter are not for teens..

There are several interesting articles that appeared everywhere last week about a report written (full report) by Matthew Robson, a 15 year old intern at Morgan Stanley. The report gives an insight into the habits, likes and dislikes of teens


Opera Face Gestures - The future of browsing

Opera released a new feature for their browser called Face Gestures. The video explains what you need to do. Check out the opera site to find out more.
Would you ever be able to get any work done…now pull the other leg.


Doh! April fool web pranks

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The web is a space where we expect anything can happen. Incomprehensibility, discovery, excitement and anxiety is built to some extent into most peoples’ everyday experience in browsing the web… which makes it great for April Fools day pranks!
Some of this year’s ordinary and geek-tinged (or actually just plain geeky!) April Fools web pranks:
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Fianna Fail website - Unpatriotic…so much for supporting Irish Industry

Last night I listened to George Hook on Newstalk taking to two people about the Fianna Fail website launch yesterday (25th February) in Citywest.  According to Fianna Fail it wasn’t exactly a launch more a soft launch but nevertheless it was a launch. I then heard that Fianna Fail had gone to an American company [...]


Ryanair - To blog or not to blog

Last week one of the Arekibo team sent around a post by Jason Roe about a error he found on the Ryanair website. The team were looking at it and discussing the benefits of posting comments like that on your blog.
We didn’t keep tabs on the discussion that followed but someone in Ryanair did and [...]


Recovery.gov - Ireland take inspiration from Obama internet strategy

I was watching CNN last night when Barak Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and was delighted to hear him refer to the website that has been set up for this initiative - http://www.recovery.gov/ - Recovery.gov is a website that lets you, the taxpayer, figure out where the money from the American [...]


Welcome to WEB R.0 - Recession Optimised

Over the past few months, there has been a significant increase in questions as to how the internet can support a company’s business during these uncertain and volatile times. As a result I’m being asked more often than ever how the web can increase online sales, make a company more efficient and streamline customer acquisition. [...]


It’s Official – Staying Positive is good for your business

Ireland’s win against France gave us all something to cheer about on Saturday. Footage of Ireland’s glory days from the 1980’s has been resurrected from the Archives and the glory days of 1980’s rugby has been compared to the recessionary days of that era. I would like to think that we are not back in the 1980’s but at the first rung of Italia ’90. Which many believe was the catalyst for the Celtic Tiger.