Congratulations to doop designed www.IrishDeafKids.ie for winning at the 8th Annual Ireland’s eGovernment Awards. At the awards ceremony in Dublin, IDK beat off stiff competition to win the Supporting Inclusive Education Category.

Other websites short-listed in the same category included Bluebrick.ie, ArtLinks, the Irish Maritime Development Office and the Online Maths Programme developed by Meath County Council and NUI Maynooth.

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In July 2009 doop were contracted to build an online payments system for Tattersalls Ireland Limited.

Tattersalls bloodstock auctioneers hold 7 auctions per annum over 21 days selling 1000’s of lots from their complex in Ratoath, Co.Meath. Traditionally vendors selling lots would pay entry fees of lots at the sale by cheque. The ability to pay entry fees online would provide an alternative payment method for vendors.

Doop developed a bespoke entry system that captured all required details for multiple lots with a payments gateway to allow for the secure payment of the entry fees by credit card.

The business implication of this installation for Tattersalls means that vendors have more control and access to payments and entries. Also the system has been so successful Tattersalls now see 60% of entry fees are now paid online and this figure is growing with each sale.

The hidden benefit of this move to online payments is that Tattersalls have been able to shift payment terms from invoicing to upfront payments which, as any business knows this assists greatly with cash flow. Such is the volume of transactions through the new system, the company have been able to negotiate better gateway fees and are further driving down the cost of taking online payments.

There is of course a cultural shift in such systems, but satisfaction among vendors with the new payments method is universal.

‘Ram Shriram, a founding board member of Google and one of the search giant’s first investors, pointed discussion in a different direction. “Combining social and mobile – there is a new wave of oppportunities coming up, a growth of users, so mobile internet is clearly the next major computing cycle. And this time this didn’t start in the US, but in Asia and Europe from where it is going to the US,” he said.’

Temple Street Children’s University Hospital commissioned doop to build the Route 66 Motorcycle Challenge Website. The motorcycle challenge has been running since 2002 and Temple Street Children’s Hospital and Irish 66ers are already preparing for their 5th trip down “the mother of all mother roads” in 2010.

The project included a website built around the wordpress publishing platform and a Discussion Board built around the Invision Powerboard system.

doop have been working with Down Syndrome Ireland for many years and continue to assist the organisation in utilising digital technology to spread their message and assist in fundraising.

Check it all out in the video, or read on for more details. You can also check out our full gesture guide.

via BumpTop Gets Multi-Touch Support on Windows 7 – BumpTop Blog.

Matt Cutts of Google’s Search Quality Team, says that because the keywords meta tag was so often spammed and abused, they began disregarding the tag years ago and see no need to change that policy.

He stresses however that Google do use other meta tags such as Title, Content-Type & the Description tag as the text for search results snippets.

Lazyfeed cofounder and CEO Ethan Gahng announced that the RSS reader is now supporting both RSSCloud and PubSubHubBub protocols, allowing for real-time integration of Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, and Feedburner content.

“Our internal tests show that the service has actually become significantly faster,” Gahng wrote. “Now some content from as recent as several seconds ago is being notified through Lazyfeed.

“Lazyfeed is a feed reader intended for the ever-growing market of, as we wrote previously, “those of us who are too lazy for RSS feeds but still in the market for real-time, personalized blog searches.” Internally, we’ve found the site incredibly useful. “To be frank, it’s been so useful in churning up news items that I’ve been hesitant to discuss it publicly,” Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote in a recent post.

via Lazyfeed Implements RSSCloud/PubSubHubBub for “Real Real Time” – ReadWriteStart.