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Lord Mayor of Dublin has signed a proclamation making Dublin the first European capital to celebrate Social Media Day. More

The decision by Dublin’s Lord Mayor to declare today Social Media Day in Dublin, coincides with a similar decision by Dublin’s sister city, San Jose in California – in the heart of Silicon Valley – to become the first city in the United States to proclaim 30 June Social Media Day.

FROM The Journal.ie

Irish people are some of those most likely in Europe to access social networks such as Facebook and Twitter according to a new survey.

Some 68 per cent of us who use the internet are likely to use social networks, the fourth highest in Europe, with Irish people the third most likely to share photographs and videos online, according to the Eurobarometer survey.

“The Dutch Parliament yesterday agreed to make the Netherlands the first nation in Europe to officially put net neutrality principles into law. The law will force ISPs and telecom operators to ensure access to all types of content, services or applications available on the network.

The new telecom law has won a near unanimous vote, despite fierce opposition from telecom operators, who had been planning to charge for over-the-top services, such as Skype or WhatsApp Messenger, which bypass traditional cellular communications. Vodafone Netherlands is currently still blocking the use of Skype on its 3G mobile network.”
extract from ‘The Register’

Just announced that the Dublin Web Summit 10th June in the RDS is now sold out. Sorry to anyone who didn’t get a ticket. CU Internet will be there…

What was said…

ey! gt on ch@. ck ot google chrome mch fstr 4 fb ch@. luvD yr pic rtfol. BTW joined my lcal crdt union 2day mam sEz theyv gr8 r8s 4 holz loans so cn go b2 oz nxt yr! dey wr nce ppl n av QL servcs lk fb and twt 2 KIT. u shd join ^ 2

What it means…

hey! get on chat. check out google chrome much faster for fb chat. loved your picture (rolling on the floor laughing) by the way I joined my local credit union today, mam says they have great rates for holiday loans so we can go back to Australia next year! they were really nice people and have cool services like facebook and twitter to keep in touch. You should join up too

Tutorial from CU Internet

A hash tag (#) is simply a way for people to search for tweets that have a common topic. If you want to make your twitter posts searchable, simply add a space, then add ‘#word’ at the end of your twitter post. e.g. #credit  #insurance  #loans etc. It’s a very simple way to improve your presence in Twitter by giving your tweets some extra visibility.

Go to Twitter and enter ‘#word’ in the search box to try it out. It returns all posts related to the #tag you have chosen.

Compiled from a selection of sources including Ipsos MRBI, Comscore , Kantar PRII, Industry Blogs and CU Internet own research.

Facebook

• 84.2% of all Irish Internet users used social networks in December 2010
• 77% of all Irish internet users use Facebook
• There are 1,942,980 Irish profiles on Facebook, with 900 new Irish profiles being added per day
• 54% of users female Vs 46% male
• 90% of those aged 15 – 24 years use Facebook, and two thirds of those use it every day

Twitter

• Twitter has doubled its Irish accounts since February 2011 (estimated now almost 570,000 accounts)
• Average of 159,000 tweets were sent per day
• 71% of Irish journalists use Twitter as a news source
• Mentions of Twitter in the Irish media – 16 per month in January 2008 | 2,058  in March 2011

YouTube

• Youtube is not as popular as facebook but is more popular than Twitter and LinkedIN
• In 2010, Youtube had 1.3 million regular Irish users
• 2.1 million unique users per month, with 400 million page views per month
• Estimate daily unique traffic of just under 500,000 users

LinkedIN

• There’s 472,687 Irish LinkedIn profiles, up 52,000 since Feb 2011
• In percentage terms, LinkedIn is growing at almost three times the rate of Facebook
• The average LinkedIn user is aged between 35 and 44, employed & living in Dublin.
• Just 2% of the unemployed are on LinkedIN

Announced yesterday via major networks, software giant Microsoft is purchasing Internet phone service company Skype for a cool $8.5billion dollars. Skype is now set to become a division of Microsoft, called Microsft Skype. Plans are for the expansion of real time communications by the division, bring more software innovation and products to customers.

Here’s a peek at what’s coming in the not-so-distant future….

Google has quietly launched its own full-length online magazine, a quarterly publication whose aim is to create a “breathing space in a busy world.”

The first edition of Think Quarterly, based out of the U.K., is a 68-page dive into the world of data and its impact on business. It’s a high speed, no frills look at the technology industry around us – worth a visit!