As Ireland faces four more years of austerity measures how will technology help or hinder the economy? Can the country rely on its connected workforce to remain or will the web offer too many quick exit opportunities?

You can’t measure success unless you know what your goals are. If you have a website, you must be sure of its purpose before you can measure its progress.

It may not always be possible to avoid a crisis, but damage limitation is feasible once you have two elements in place: awareness of the problem, and a willingness to make a rapid response.

Have you used Drop.io? It’s a fantastic web based tool for sharing digital data with anyone else. Or rather, it was. Simple, easy to use, and now dead, Drop.io has been bought and wound up by Facebook, and it probably won’t be the last rising star to fall to earth.