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Bus Eireann Making Web Users Sick?

Might not make everyone sick but dear God in heaven – why did you remove the old website and replace it with THAT? I’ve seen bad websites in my time but this is really taking the piss! What was so wrong with the old website, that was actually usable and in keeping with the likes…

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Another Pagerank Update

Looks like Google have been at the PR updates again… kenmc.com – PR 4 to PR5 kilkennymusic.com – PR2 to PR4 liverpoolaccess.com – PR0 to PR5 Pretty pleased with the increase in LiverpoolAccess.com given its only been knocking around since the end of the summer, coupled with the rise in kilkennymusic.com’s PR, which I hadn’t…

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First It Was Dell And Google, Now Its Yahoo And HP

Earlier in the year Dell announced a partnership with Google for all new machines shipping out of Dell – a machine’s browser homepage would default to a special Google landing page offering Dell and Google products and news. Now, according to the Taipei Times, Yahoo have snapped up HP (having already snapped up ACER to…

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Rate Your Hospital (Yet Another Rating Website)

Kilkenny (St. Lukes) averages out about 62%…. Ardkeen (Waterford Regional) averages out at 58%… considering that hospitals should be aiming for 85% + to be in the good books on the site, what can you find out about your hospital. Check RateMyHospital.ie (yet another rating website)

Help Yourself At 6pm

If you’re in Kilkenny today at 6pm and fancy dropping into Langton’s on John Street, you might just be able to Help Yourself as Aidan (Event Ireland) and Keith (Bohanna Consulting) kick off a new series of monthly talks (presumably in Harry’s Bar inside Langtons) aimed at local businesses. Help Yourself is a way for…

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Quality Broadcast Material Online From RTÉ

Looks like RTE have joined the internet exchange, INEX, and are looking to “deliver quality broadcast material over the internet in a more efficient manner”. You think that they’ll be charging the average internet user for accessing this “quality broadcast material”. It’d sure beat the hell out of paying a TV license fee, and at…

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Rate Your Solicitor No More

An Irish website RateYourSolicitor.com, which aims to let clients find and rate solicitors has received an Irish High Court injunction to remove defamatory material about one such rated solicitor. The site is hosted by a US provider, gmax.net, which has reportedly been served notice by lawyers acting for the defamed solicitor. Has / had anyone…

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Kilkenny People Banned In China

So, reading the Kilkenny People yesterday (page 7, section 1), seemingly the local press are the next thing banned out of China – at least on the web anyway. Now, before the Kilkenny People were taken over by the Johnston Press, you could forgive them for having a half decent website but I’ve certainly no…

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Red Paper Clip For A House

Exactly a year to the day since he started his adventure to trade one red paperclip for a house, it looks like Kyle MacDonald has finally accomplished his goal and looks set to pick up his house tomorrow. Kinda takes the power of the internet and media to new levels…. Think you could walk into…

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O2 Are Doing It Again

As if the website isn’t bad enough at the moment since the upgrade… they’re doing it again…. From Saturday 24th of June at 17:30, to Monday 26th of June, o2.ie will be unavailable. You will be unable to access any part of the site during this time as we are upgrading our billing system. Please…

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