- Blog Awards Ireland 2012 winners – meet the 30 best blogs in Ireland Bloggers and blog owners from all over the country packed-out the Osprey Hotel in Naas, Co. Kildare tonight to witness ?? take home the Grand Prix at the first-ever Blog Awards Ireland event, designed to recognise the "passion and enthusiasm that blogging brings to the Irish media landscape".
- Meet Carve Cases – Wooden iPhone cases made in Ireland Last month we covered a good-news story about an investment competition with a difference. Emerging startups were invited to pitch their ideas on Twitter using the hashtag #20000yoyos and two winners would be chosen just weeks later, each receiving €10,000 to help get their idea off the ground.
- Google releases imagery update in Google Earth The Google LatLong team have released an imagery update which is available now in Google Earth and Google Maps. The update is extensive and includes high resolution aerial imagery updates for Australia, Japan, Scotland, Wales and the US, and satellite imagery updates for eighty-five countries, including large parts of Ireland.