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Where do I go now Posterous is closing down?

By on February 21, 2013 in Blogging, Domains, Hosting, Promotions

This week we’ve seen the news that Posterous is closing down towards the end of April. The old saying “if you’re not paying for a product then you are the product” seems to ring true once again. It goes to show that if you plan on setting up a home on the web it really [...]

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Blacknight Urges ICANN to Reconsider “Closed Generic” TLDs

By on February 18, 2013 in Blogging, business, Domains, icann, newtlds, policy, Press Releases, WordPress

We’ve posted about “closed generics” a few times in the past. What are they? Basically they’re applications for new tlds that have two characteristics: the string (the bit on the right of the dot) is very generic the applicant has stated that they don’t plan on allowing the public to register domains using the extension [...]

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Use Zemanta To Improve Your Blogging

By on January 22, 2012 in Blogging, Tips

Personally I love blogging. I write for the company blog on a regular basis, but I also write on several other blogs. However I’d be the first to admit that I am not afraid of taking advantage of whatever tools I can find to help speed up the process and improve it. Zemanta, in my [...]

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We’ve Moved .. And We’d Love Your Feedback

By on November 29, 2011 in Blogging

As mentioned earlier today we were moving the blog to a new server and a new backend. If you can see this post then you’re looking at the new server If you have any constructive feedback please let us know  

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We’re Moving .. .. The Blog

By on November 29, 2011 in Blogging

We’re going to be taking this blog offline for a time later this morning so that we can move it. We’ll be moving it to both a new physical location (ie. server) and to a new design and blog backend. As a result of this all comments are being disabled for the interim – you [...]

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Technology.ie Podcast Launch

By on September 28, 2011 in Blogging, business, Marketing, Podcasting

We’re probably a little bit late to the party with this one, but we’ve finally launched our podcast. Since it’s not just about us and our products and services we’re running it over on Technology.ie Conn Ó Muíneacháin from Edgecast Media has been podcasting for years and is a trusted member of the community, so [...]

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TimThumb security issue with WordPress

By on August 2, 2011 in Blogging, security

We’re seeing a fair bit of chatter this morning about a security exploit in TimThumb so if you run a WordPress blog and are using a third party theme that resizes images chances are good that it has TimThumb included in it. (TimThumb doesn’t come with WordPress by default) For more info about the exploit [...]

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WordPress 3.2 is here

By on July 5, 2011 in Blogging, Hosting, Tips

NOTE: This post applies to Shared Hosting Customers with self installs of WordPress NOT to Application Vault WordPress installs. So a lot of people will be waking up today and seeing that WordPress 3.2 is out.. I can hear you groaning “another upgrade?” Well as always when doing upgrades of software the first thing I’m [...]

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What Do You Want To Hear About?

By on January 6, 2011 in Blogging, business

Since it’s the beginning of the year I’m currently working on several “projects” for 2011 – or at least the first couple of months of the year. One are that I think we need to do more is in relation to this blog. Sure, we post on here semi-regularly, but I think we need to [...]

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Metrics – How We Love And Hate Them

By on September 20, 2010 in Blogging, business, ecommerce, Marketing

Metrics. Statistics. Analytics. Tracking. If you are involved in online business you probably have come across some (or all) of those terms at some stage. If you are paying anyone to do any work for you in terms of SEO,

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KLCK Bloggers’ Network Event in Carlow

By on August 7, 2010 in Blogging, Events

KLCK Bloggers’ Network is aimed at bloggers in the Kildare, Laois, Carlow and Kilkenny region of Ireland. This Monday, August 9th at 7pm they are holding an event in the Talbot Hotel, Carlow. There will be two presentations, the first on Flick for business by Paula Sheridan of Candle Designs and the second on setting [...]

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WordPress 3 is now available via the App Vault

By on July 9, 2010 in Blogging, howto

We’re happy to announce that WordPress 3 is now available via the app vault on the Blacknight control panel. The app vault comes with all Shared Hosting Plans which are available from as little as €4.95 a month. What does this mean for you? Good things WordPress 3 comes with: a new default theme (called [...]

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