Author: Michele Neylon
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Zuckerberg Redefines Pretentious
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has been getting a lot of flak in recent weeks about Facebook’s attitude and handling of privacy for its users. During a recent interview Zuckerberg was asked several times about privacy. He failed to give a convincing answer. Watch the entire interview to see how Zuckerberg, yet again, redefines “pretentious” once again.…
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Irish Politician Thinks Facebook Is Bad For Health
This is one of those “only in Ireland” type stories. Irish MEP Nessa Childers has decided to go on the “war path” against Facebook (and probably other social media sites) as they’re supposedly bad for our mental health! You can read Ms Childers’ full release on the subject here – and no, it’s not April…
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Should We Trust Facebook?
In the last few weeks and months Facebook has been receiving a LOT of media attention. While the social networking site would have attracted plenty of media attention related to its growth, the more recent spate of interest has centred around privacy. Or more accurately, the lack of it. Back in January of this year…
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KLM Shines – So Where Is Aer Lingus?
The Iceland volcano eruptions have had a very “interesting” impact on travel throughout Europe. The skies over Ireland and most of Europe have been practically empty for the last few days. This is an “act of God”. It’s not something that you could have planned for or expected and while airlines have a “duty of…
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Bebo Shutdown or Sale Iminent – So Where Does All the Content Go?
AOL bought Bebo a couple of years ago. At the time they probably thought they’d got themselves a bargain. Bebo was doing really well in the UK and Ireland. It wasn’t doing so well in the US, but that could have changed.. Of course it didn’t change. Bebo’s traffic shrank and upstart Facebook came along…
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Fantasy Animals, Pets and Pretzels More Popular Than Businesses
If you frequent the “twittersphere” or Facebook you’ll often come across businesses and their staff trying to market their products and services to you. There’s nothing wrong with that. Of course, how they actually do it is another matter entirely … But how successful are most of their attempts to “tap in” to “social media”…