Spend on online advertising hit €98.2M in 2009 in Ireland according to research by PWC and the IAB. This is approximately 10% of the estimated €940M overall advertising buget for Ireland in 2009.
This means that there should still be strong growth in the online ad spend for Ireland as it is low when compared to [...]
Google has added significant new functionality into Top Search Queries under the Your Site On The Web menu of Webmaster tools. The new information shows a fine-grained drilldown into your websites performance for its top performing search queries.
There is amazing information to be mined here as it shows the positions, impressions and click throughs for [...]
The collapse of Ning’s free social network offering and the noises being made by Twitter at Chirp (Twitters first developer conference) underline the need to have a sound business model (yes even online!). Ning was the brainchild of Marc Andreessen (of Netscape fame) a network of social networks. It took in over $120M of [...]
facebook publishes some of it stats online at http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics it’s an amazing insight in to the growth of the community and the usage of the platform.
It’s growing at an amazing rate (a couple of weeks ago I notice that there were 3.5 billion pieces of content shared each week - that’s now up to 5 [...]
Enterprise Ireland is looking for business partners - people not companies. They want to collaborate with experienced entrepreneurs to convert research in startups into economic benefit…
Enterprise Ireland is currently seeking new Business Partners to help us create start-up companies. We want to hear from successful business people to partner with us to transform State [...]
Google is phasing out support for IE6 in it’s Google Doc suite (see below). Hopefully this will help force users to upgrade their browsers, which will be a major benefit to developers. IE6 has long been the bain of QA and testing departments in web design and development houses as it is very quirky (I’m [...]
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Google have an interesting Internet Statistics resource called Google Internet Stats which they are aggregating from 3rd parties. It looks like a very interesting little widget…
See it in action over here - Google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats/
I noticed it’s not as accurate as one might have imagined…
In January 2009, JP Morgan estimated that 2008 worldwide retail eCommerce spending, [...]
Google circulated some interesting statistics on the state on the online market in Ireland. Some of this information is derived from market research by 3rd parties but some is internal, all of it useful if you’re trying to guage the size and opportunity of the Irish online channel.
69% of Irish people are regular internet users
1.25 [...]
What’s new over at Google? Well, they have unveiled a preview of their next update codenamed “Caffeine” - you can trial it over here at http://www2.sandbox.google.com…
What’s all the fuss about? Well, when Google opens up a test environment to their next release it’s alway good to have a look and see how it may effect [...]