Dublin’s Lord Mayor Mr Naoise Ó Muirí will be at the ready on Twitter tomorrow at the hashtag #AskNaoise, to answer questions from the tweeting public about the Irish capital – or who would win in a lion-duck fight.
14.May.2013 13:06
You Harlem Shakers, you’ve had it coming! For some of us who found the Harlem Shake meme tedious and a bit of an overkill, a new video showing a Harlem Shake attempt gone wrong has us all laughing.
14.May.2013 12:26
A new smartphone app called iGAAFan is aiming to enable GAA fans to interact with their teams at both county and club level. The Tyrone and Derry County Boards are currently trialling the app.
14.May.2013 11:36
Irish broadcaster TV3 has, in tandem with an overhaul of its entire tv3.ie website, rolled out a new hourly online video news service that will run alongside its on-air output.
14.May.2013 06:57
Former International Space Station (ISS) commander Chris Hadfield, who will make his return journey to Earth today, has recorded a fitting tribute to his time aboard the ISS, creating the first music video ever filmed in space.
13.May.2013 12:02
We take a look at some of the most-viewed and most-shared videos on the web. This week features old Spock taking on new Spock, a treadmill dance to rival OK GO, Charles Ramsey autotuned, a hand grenade flop, and stuff that moms say.
12.May.2013 10:30
Cmdr Chris Hadfield is to return to Earth on Monday after inhabiting the International Space Station since December, where he has been sharing his photos of the planet on social media.
11.May.2013 08:00
It looks like YouTube’s era of free online video is coming to an end as the social video network launches a small selection of fee-based subscriptions with an assurance that this is only the beginning.
10.May.2013 10:27
Dublin City University MA in Journalism students Maria Delaney and Peadar Grogan have launched a new website to crowdsource stories in need of some investigative reporting.
10.May.2013 08:00
After Manchester United Football Club announced the retirement of manager Sir Alex Ferguson on its Twitter account yesterday, fans inundated social media with photos, tributes, statistics - and memes.
09.May.2013 10:47
In the age of on-demand viewing and social media saturation, spoilers are a persistent danger – but 17-year-old coder Jennie Lamere is working on a solution to save us.
09.May.2013 10:27
Video-streaming site YouTube is the place to go to watch music videos these days, but the recent religious-themed promo for 'The Next Day' by David Bowie was pulled from the site only to be reinstated shortly afterward.
09.May.2013 09:52
A new project known as Eurapp has been launched by the European Commission with the aim of measuring the size of the app economy in Europe. The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at NUI Galway will run the project along with the analyst firm GigaOM Research.
09.May.2013 07:30
Brace yourself, the Alex Ferguson social media tributes are coming – and they are coming thick and fast, according to stats from Twitter UK.
08.May.2013 14:47
Visitors to the new Century Ireland online news service can now go back in time and explore images, news reports, academic research and other archival material from the time of the Home Rule debate to the Civil War (1913-1923) in Ireland.
08.May.2013 11:17
We take a look at some of the most-viewed and most-shared videos on the web. This week features dubbed zombies, a tricky question for non-Spanish speakers, another stab at virality from the Girl with a Funny Talent, a preview for Steven Spielberg’s next POTUS biopic, and a straight-talking trailer for Iron Man 2.
05.May.2013 10:22
