Newspaper of the Century | The 2008 Hijinx Awards

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Lady Gaga to quit social media. For charity. Not for real. For charity. Not how you think. For charity.: 21st century attention seeking. - Let’s have a round of applause, and a... This is living. This is the Living Room. : One of the great challenges facing the government during the votes on... Government to take a stand, following market research : Political anoraks all over the nation can’t stop talking about the... Volcano to shutdown M50 Northbound at Ballymount: In what commentators are calling an act of God, the M50 Northbound at... Global warming re-launched as ‘Good Weather’: Billions of earthlings had their loads lightened this morning with news...
November 29, 2010

Lady Gaga to quit social media. For charity. Not for real. For charity. Not how you think. For charity.

Gay-Gay Phyl
Posted by : Gay-Gay Phyl

Let’s have a round of applause, and a cinder block on the fingers, for Alecia Keys, who came up with the idea of raising money for charity by asking you to pay to see celebrity tweets and Facebook updates. On the face of it, this sounds like real progress – less Lady Gaga, more money [...]


February 11, 2010

Google Buzz guarantees social media professional salaries for the next 12 months

Fintan Chevalier
Posted by : Fintan Chevalier
Filed under : Media, Tech & Web

Social media experts up and down the country today rejoiced at the launch of Google’s new social media product ‘Buzz’.
“We’ve had a mare of a Q1 so far” said Adele Staunton of leading Irish digital media agency Vapidit.ie
“Our portfolio of expertise was waning there for a short while. People had begun to unlock the deep, [...]


January 18, 2010

Haiti gives thanks as Facebook status changes bear fruit

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns
Filed under : Tech & Web, World News

The people of Haiti were today celebrating the first miracle of the new decade as a mass status change on Facebook instantaneously solved all the problems caused by last week’s devastating earthquake.
As shocked and badly wounded Haitians looked on in wonder, buildings reassembled themselves and rose skywards, services such as water and electricity began to [...]


October 2, 2008

Facebook to locate European HQ in Dublin

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns

Facebook has announced that it is to locate its European headquarters in Dublin. In an announcement on its home page they revealed that up to 14 jobs would be created in their landmark offices to be located in St Stephen’s Green.
The Irish Sentinel has learned that due to the economic downturn the government have decided [...]