The Sociable

Web portal giant, Yahoo!, has launched a regionalised version of its site for the Irish market but not all ties have been cut with Yahoo! UK.

For a third consecutive year Google are inviting Irish students to take part in the Doodle 4 Google competition, with this years theme of ‘To me, happiness is....'

Shortlists for the Irish Web Awards 2010 have been announced with over 700 unique entries in 28 different categories. The preliminary round of judging has taken place with all shortlisted entries now published on their website.

If reports surfacing in the last 24 hours are true, Twitter is about to launch another monetization feature - “Promoted Accounts”.

With Sony and Microsoft launching their assault on motion responsive gaming this year, in direct competition to Nintendo's Wii, the future of home gaming has never been so hard to predict. But as Piers Dillon-Scott found at the “Game On Dublin” show, that has always been the case.

Mark Zuckerberg, along with Newark mayor Cory Booker, visited a school in Newark that will benefit from Zuckerberg's recent pledge of $100 million to help improve the Newark education system.

Kenny’s bookstore, based in Liosbán, Galway, now boosts up to 6.5 million titles, with a recent statement from Des Kenny, bookstore management, saying: “We’re challenging Amazon”.

In a decision that would have Gene Roddenberry spinning in his space urn (if it hadn’t burned up on re-entry) several UN scientific committees are set to discuss the possibility of appointing a full-time ambassador for alien affairs.