Good artists copy, great artists steal. Right? Sometimes its possible to grab the internet's attention by flipping an established concept on its head by concentrating on a subset of an audience. Take the web's latest and greatest poster child for image curation - Pinterest. It continues to grow in ...

URL: (demo) http://www.webdistortion.com/ontact/ Wordpress provides us with a bucketload of flexibility. With one of the most welcome recent additions being custom posts we can now develop all sorts of creative web based solutions using it. As part of a recent project, I have recently developed ...

When the internet was first created, it was developed initially as a military tool for communication and with the packet switching technology contained within, it was designed to be as resilient as possible, with no one single point of failure. It's original designers couldn't have imagined how m...

Close to my home there is a filling station, and as with all well placed services it's close to the motorway. Although it's one of the most expensive places to fill up, it continues to gain business. Having noticed its expense, I've tried to avoid it where I can, but often fall victim to the all...

In environments where space is at a premium, historically its been difficult to find a convenient yet practical keyboard solution. As many of you mobile users will know, typing anything more than a 140 character SMS update is often painful at best. That's until now. Korean company CelluonÂ...

From its inception, the web has always had appeal as an educational resource. Recognising the potential for remote learning, in 2002, the launch of OpenCourseWare at MIT helped propel the initiative into the spotlight, with many universities following suit and providing quality educational material ...

Consumers of information on the web have always been fickle. With the next website being a click away, and viewers quickly scanning instead of reading - increasing engagement on your website isn't an easy task. Which is why some of the successful social startups on the web are all the more intere...

At one point or another, all of us  have lost one or more things close to us. The stress and distress caused by the misplacement of an iPhone, or Android or indeed a digital camera is all too familiar for a geek. Thankfully, technology has got pretty smart, and leaves digital footprints which can b...

According to a report published today by global statistics company Comscore - more than 1 in 5 (21%) Irish users use LinkedIn ever month, placing Ireland as the country with the 2nd highest global penetration of this social networking site in the world. Ireland came 2nd only to the Netherlands, whic...

The humble business card. Revered by designers, lusted after by business people. Are they just a bit old fashioned now? Or will we still be swapping contact information on cardboard for years to come? This collection of some of the web's coolest identity based startups are sure looking to change all...