How Irish Businesses can make the most of the web

A couple of weeks ago, I was at Dublin Web Summit. There were a lot of fantastic presentations by high profile members of the tech world. Throughout the conference a few common themes emerged for those who run small businesses in Ireland. Every small company in Ireland should have a website, the excellent gettingbusinessonline.ie allows [...]

Dublin Web Summit 2011 Day 2

A lot of Day 2 (Friday 28th of October) was taken up by different panels. Again,this post is just the notes I took during the conference. I hope it makes some sense. Alex Ljung, Soundcloud; Jens Begeman, Wooga — Europe’s Hottest Startups, moderated by Robin Wauters SoundCloud can be thought of as the ‘YouTube for [...]

Business in the Social World

Social networking has taken over the world on-line. When you look at some of the numbers, it’s simply staggering; Facebook has 800 million users; Groupon’s growth rate in June of this year was 2,241%. These huge companies didn’t exist 10 years ago. How did they do it? Can Irish businesses capitalize on the techniques they [...]