September 29th 2008

TV3 IrelandAM

Websites reviewed by Maeve Kneafsey on IrelandAM on 29th September included:

 

 

FIS Book Club is something different, basically it's a kids education website that allows kids to write or video their own review of books they have read, and post comments to one another about the book. The kids get ideas for other books from one another which encourages more reading. All of this is done within a safe, secure and monitored environment which is only accessible to schools.

 

 

Tracks where you are geographically and then looks for all your mobile phone contacts book or social networks contact list and provides a geographic map of where you are and where all your friends are. Just be aware you all have to have the same download to track one another. Why would you want to know! Well, maybe if it was my teenage son who was late home, it might be of use! Or you are in London on business and you can see if anyone else you know is and meet for a drink. It does so by tapping into social networking APIs, making interaction with social networking accounts location-relevant. Locle uses a combination of different technologies (GPS, Cell-ID and Wifi) to locate users anywhere in the world. It will launch to the Irish public officially on October 15th.

 

 

A brillianlty named social network that's exclusively for Irish Dancing and Music: www.Diddlyi.com. In one year, 130,000 people have visited it - because it's just fun. It has some nice features such as nominating or voting for the best Irish Dancing teacher of the year, videos and photos to learn some new steps or moves, post your questions to the answers of the High Kings of Ireland. Lots of social networking.

 

 

Did you know that businesses and individuals in Ireland will throw out over 1 million working computers over the next 5 years? One of the goals of Camara is to stop these computers being dumped in Irish landfill sites and send them instead to schools and colleges in Africa. The website gets over 2 million hits a year and to date they have sent out over 7000 computers which have been refurbished by volunteers in workshops in Dublin and Belfast.