I'd like to wish all our clients (and everyone else) a Happy New Year. The new wesbite should be finished soon(hopefully!).

Can't believe it's 2009 already!

Making Web 2.0 work for you

EAMON McGRANE

THE BATTLE to integrate Web 2.0 tools into day-to-day business practices will continue to be a significant issue for companies, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) new technology forecasts.

As a term, Web 2.0 has been in existence since 2003. It was coined to describe new ways of social interaction and sharing information in different ways, such as blogs, wikis, widgets, social networks, mashups and bookmarking. The distinguishing characteristic from previous web technologies is interaction.

The PwC report points to one problem with social networking platforms - much of the activity on the consumer web is frivolous and some of the companies experimenting with social software seem preoccupied with the superficial aspects of it.

According to Ciarán Kelly, head of performance improvement consulting at PwC, both sides of Web 2.0 need to be mixed. Instant messaging could take care of the more "small talk" aspects of communication and sharing.

"There is a huge amount of noise in terms of the amount of information people are being hit by with BlackBerrys, voicemail, IM, webmail and so on. With so much communications incoming it can be difficult to see the wood for the trees. I think what Web 2.0 is attempting to do is distil that noise into information that is relevant to you."

PwC has been using Web 2.0 technologies - specifically internal blogs - to solicit ideas and suggestions for how to make the company a better place to work. Previously, an e-mail would have been circulated. However, the nature of blog entries means that ideas are developed more organically.

Kelly underlines the importance of being able to share information quickly and organically by positing a scenario where government could use Web 2.0 tools for a procurement strategy. For example, if a department had to buy watercoolers, PCs, telephony and so on, it could informally set up a collaboration mechanism across all departments asking who else had bought similar items and how much they had paid for them.

I'm currently building the New Pride Design Website using Drupal, the award winning CMS. Seems to be coming along nicely.

Latest Website Live:

Ridge Solutions:
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Another Nice Quick Wordpress site for Ted and the Wildside lads!

G'Luck ted!

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Wildside Catering:
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I've just finished my latest web design project for Grasstec

Go To Grasstec

Another Web shop this time.

Asian Opus import wonderful stone carvings from Bali. There's some really great statues on the site.

To Check out their stuff go to the Site here: Asian Opus

Another Project that started without a logo. Here's what I came up with for Asian Opus.

My latest website has gone live. It's for a travel company who specalise in trips to Disney Land, Euro Disney and Disney World. They're based in Kinsale Co.Cork and are well worth checking out if you're looking for a good deal.

Magic Vacations

John came to me looking for a website but he didn't have a logo, which is always the starting point for any design project.

I took on the job of doing up a quick bring logo for him.