The Mulley.ie Machine is Alive

Take a jaunt from Mulley.net-land to Mulley Communications. Damien’s professional site is oh so new and his blog is already rocking with his first post on how Facebook’s ad campaign tool is changing and is becoming more granular.
In true Mulley style, he cuts the crap and focuses on what’s important.
This is probably a bit scary but [...]

Starbucks needs to defeat Starbucks

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Starbucks is feeling the pain. Last night, the company reported a 97% drop in profits for the last quarter alone. The coffee giant reported net income of just $5.4 million or a cent a share in the quarter, shoddy performance when compared like-for-like with income of $158.8 million or 21 cents [...]

His Al Goreness’ big foamy finger on Web 2.0 and Green issues

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He who hath created the Internet doth proclaim we should STFU and focus on Green. His Al Goreness starts:
“Web 2.0 has to have a purpose.”
He continues using a big, pointy foam hand:
“The purpose, I would urge all of you — as many of you as are willing to take it [...]

O2 Grafton Street Stores Contact Details

It appears that there’s a lot of you that come here searching for the phone numbers of O2’s stores on Grafton Street. Far be it for me to stop you from calling up to complain. I don’t blame the desperate searching for details using search engines. The O2 site is a mess.
So just to make [...]

Irish Dragon’s Den comes to RTÉ

According to Morning Ireland, RTÉ’s version of Dragon’s Den is almost ready to go. Black Tie honcho Niall O’Farrell is set to be one of the Dragons. Worth a punt, right?
The guys at iFoods.tv got some great experience and exposure to new partners after their stint on the UK show. It would be nice to [...]

Meet Brian & Brian, the short and curlies keepers

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There are times when it’s trendy to disagree completely with David McWilliams. Times when ology analysis  bites the back of your neck. Times when you’d love to tell Breakfast Roll Man where to stick it. Yesterday was not one of those times. Economic punditry aside, action on the widening banking [...]

Thinking about guides: online ways and means

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There seems to be a proliferation of blog posts touted by social media experts that dictate X Steps to Y - almost like self-help books. Posts like ‘10 Steps to Maximise Your Blog’ or ‘5 Ways to Increasing Brand Awareness Online’, but you kind have to wonder how effective are [...]

Best Catchphrase I’ve Read All Week


Brands on Twitter

Okay, I love Twitter. Sometimes I find myself evangelising it to people that haven’t heard about microblogging. The best way to explain it is in terms of examples; case studies of companies that have adopted it and are making it a part of their daily business regime. Of course, regular users of Twitter on the [...]

Business Suiting

Does the suit make a man, or the man, a suit? I work in a casual-dress environment, jeans and t-shirts are the norm, people who wear suits are invariably doing interviews. A friend of mine who works in a similar environment has started doing Formal Fridays, where he dresses up in a suit. I find [...]

A hundred blue and yellow tears…

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Delays on the work to the M50 are likely to delay to opening of Ikea’s planned landmark store in Ballymun to the tune of several months. It looks like a classic case of a clash between Swedish efficiency and bad Irish execution on planning and construction. From today’s Irish Times:
The [...]

Making music festivals unmissable

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I went to Oxegen last year and while I didn’t go this year, I was a little disappointed that the promoters haven’t really capitalised on the potential of the festival. Music festivals just like Oxegen and the Electric Picnic come once a year, but shouldn’t they be building a [...]

Track your project with 1time

The biggest challenge of managing any project worth its salt is the cost/time conundrum. The eternal dilemma of any IT project manager is keeping developers and testers honest with respect to their responsibilities while trying to ensure costs are minimised by eyeballing timelines. This is true for every sector. There are lots of tools on [...]

AIB in meltdown?

News is just breaking on Twitter via Catherine that AIB is suffering an alleged systems meltdown tonight with both its web site down and ATMs out of action.

As of 8:50pm this evening, the AIB website is down, hence internet banking is hosed.

Experienced any problems using AIB ATMs tonight?
Update: Confirmation comes through their credit services helpdesk.
Update [...]

Mapping Walmart’s Expansion

I really love maps, especially when they are overlaid with a story. Check out this interesting map documenting the explosion of Walmart stores across the United States. See how slow it starts with a single store in Arkansas in ‘62? Great visualisation.

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