http://aonach.com Simply Technology Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:57:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://aonach.com/chatter/online-advertising-in-ireland/ 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, ... http://aonach.com/chatter/top-search-query-update-google-webmaster-tools/ 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 ... http://aonach.com/chatter/the-cost-of-free/ 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 - ... http://aonach.com/chatter/facebook-statistics/ 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 ... http://aonach.com/chatter/enterprise-ireland-looking-for-business-partners/ Here are some links to supporting material for the Internet Strategy lecture delivered by John Prendergast to the MBA program at University College, Cork. Customers may be talking about your brand online - even if you are not! It's important to monitor activity around your brand online - here's a classic customer ... http://aonach.com/chatter/internet-strategy-notes-mba-program/ 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 ... http://aonach.com/chatter/ie6-support/ We would like to wish everyone a happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year! Best regards from all the team at Aonach. We look forward to talking to you in the new year. Our offices will be closed from 23rd of December until 4th of January 2010 http://aonach.com/chatter/happy-christmas/ 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 ... http://aonach.com/chatter/internet-statistics/ John Lewis is the latest online retailer to jump on the "click and collect" trend. They are trialling a service which will allow shoppers to order goods online at JohnLewis.com and then go and pick them up at a store. The twist in the tail on this one is John ... http://aonach.com/chatter/click-and-collect-gains-momentum/