We’re all patiently waiting on the Apple Event to take place and the widely anticipated announcement of the Tablet. We don’t know what it will be called, or exactly what features it will have, but a couple of things we can be sure of - this device will be pleasing to the eye, and it most certainly will cause an explosion in internet chatter over the next 24hrs!

Is this device going to be an XL version of an iPod touch/iPhone, will it be launched as a competitor to the Kindle, or will it be a Tablet based computer? There has never been a tighter lid kept on a new product launch at Apple, which leads this writer to believe that Apple, and Mr Jobs, are really swinging for the fences with this.

If anyone has heard rumours please feel free to comment below.

New years is over and everyone is back at Cloud Number 9. It’s not great to be back but looking at some of the campaigns we’ve got coming up it’s hard not to get excited!

Anyway i’ll keep it short and sweet, so here is the latest video to come through the production team at eighty:twenty, a Carol-Off Mashup for Meteor.

Enjoy!

In our latest campaign, this Christmas season we’ve teamed Bord Gais up with Pix.ie to run their “Big Switch On” campaign, in which they are sponsoring the switching on of Dublin & Cork Christmas lights. We’re using Christmas themed Twitter #Tags to create a buzz around the campaign and pulling them in to a live stream on the Pix.ie group page.

A further goal of this campaign is to invite budding photographers to get involved by uploading their favourite Christmas ’09 images. If we gather 500 festive image uploads, Bord Gais will donate €10,000 to the Dublin Lord Mayor’s Christmas Fund. Festive fun while also contributing to a good cause!

You can find out more about it here: http://pix.ie/group/christmas09

Happy Christmas!

We sat down and discussed the Big Idea for our recently released eMag ( www.bit.ly/eightytwenty ) with Martin Wright of Gospel TM, Rachel Earley from EightyTwenty, Alex Gibson from The Persuaders Podcasting, and David Connor from EightyTwenty.

What emerged from that discussion was the following video, hopefully you will find it as interesting as we did!

It’s finally here, our first edition of the ADA eMag. If you’ve been directed here you probably already know about the great features contained in it…..but….. let’s go over them again! The emag contains written and video content and is fully shareable. Simply drag your cursor over the any of the content to send to a friend. Click on any area to zoom in on text or video.

If you haven’t seen the eMag yet you can find it here.

We’d love your feedback so comment on this blog post with your thoughts. Hope you like it!

We’re making progress on our eMag at last! It’s been a few weeks in the making so can’t wait to finally be able to share it with you all and get some feedback on it. We’ve got interviews with a top Facebooker, loads of great video content, interactive videos, and loads of other features to keep you busy!

*Update: You can now sign up to receive the emag, just fill out the form on the link here: bit.ly/8020emag

…and we’ll send it to you as soon as it’s ready!

The team here at Eighty:Twenty Pareto have started a Friday tradition of shutting up shop early on a Friday and heading down stairs for a few drinks and a catch up with everyone – kind of like a halfway house between work and the weekend; and we’re calling it Freezeframe Friday. We feel that today’s busy world can leave some people drifting out of work late on a Friday and all too quickly its Monday again. So the purpose of Freezeframe Friday is to give a definitive ending to the week, and give staff a chance to socialise and talk about something other than work – after all, we spend a lot of time with these people, and how many of can say that we REALLY know them? Take a look at the video below of one of our Fridays…

The launch of the new Harry Potter movie has been leveraged with a bewitching Twitter campaign which allows users to send magical potions to selected friends. Try it out now at http://www.harrypottertweet.com/

How many of you get distracted by Facebook, Twitter and the footie results in the office? We came across the Self Control app which allows you to blacklist certain domains for a selected timeframe. If you need to finish that presentation but can’t quite break away from visiting your favourite sites, download the app now at: http://visitsteve.com/work/selfcontrol/