We’ve been updating our events section over the last few weeks and we’ve started to add more events. Events happening this weekend include:

• Reggie Watts at Whelans: Sublime off-the-wall comedian from the US incorporating a surreal mix of  music, beatboxing and comedy.
• Dara O’Briain at Vicar Street: One of the funniest Irish comedians about. Dara has had great success in both Ireland and the UK.
• Chinese New Year Festival: A selection of events across Dublin to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Dragon. Includes a Chinese film festival.
• Sludge, Punk and Grindcore at the Lower Deck: Some alternative hardcore music at The Lower Deck

Dublinbynumbers has added a new feature that allows event organisers and promoters to submit events to the site. Up until recently we have had limited capacity to add events on Dublinbynumbers, however we hope that this new feature will mean that we will have much more capacity to list and promote events. We will be making a few tweaks over the next few weeks, but we’ve decided to roll it out in beta -mode for the next few weeks.

Submit and event to Dublinbynumbers

The new service is totally free, but please note:

• The service is still in beta mode, so any feedback welcome!
• Events must be in Dublin
• We ask that event descriptions are unique to Dublinbynumbers where possible.  Google penalises duplicate content on the web so we prefer to avoid content that is elsewhere. We can help rewrite content if required. If you are submitting content that is published elsewhere please let us know.

If you have a question or any feedback please let us know!

You can contact us here.

We’ve a couple of tickets to give away to the Taste of Christmas at the Dublin Convention Centre. Check out our competition page for more details.

We’ve been making quite a few changes to Dublinbynumbers over the last few months. Not least we now have a new look Dublin events section. In our previous incarnation we were only able to show a small number of events and festivals in Dublin, but now the sky is the limit. Users can search by event category such as Dublin festivals, events for kids, business events and so on.

We’re still working on developing the section further and we hope to add events on a regular basis. An event submission form/login facility is also in the pipeline. If you have any events in Dublin you’d like to add please give us a shout and we’ll see what we can do!

Dublinbynumbers now brings together a number deals in Dublin from a variety of different deal sites such as Groupon, Pigsback and others. These sites work on the principle that if you get enough people together you get huge saving on services and products (up to 90% in some cases). Groupon is the leader in the field and is in the enviable position of being the fastest growing company in the world; recently turning down a $6 Billion offer from Google.

Many more small deal sites have now sprung up, however it can be difficult to keep track of deals in your area. Dublinbynumbers is offering a new service that allows you to get a variety of Dublin based deals in one place. Head over to our deal aggregator and sign up with our simple email subscription form for more local Dublin deals.

Street Performance World Championships in Dublin have thought up an extremely entertaining way of raising funds for a good cause. During the festival organisers are hoping to beat the Where’s Wally World Record. A high resolution photo will be used to capture the first ever real-life Where’s Wally picture.

The festival will take place in Dublin on the 18th and 19th of June 2011.

Go on, be a Wally!

Find out more on spwc.ie

We have added a couple of Christmasy categories on Dublinbynumbers, these include Christmas trees , Christmas shops and most importantly a Dublin toy shop category. Some of these categories are a bit thin on the gound in terms of listings, so if you know of a Christmas shop or Christmas tree seller near you please let us know!

Joke courtesy of Christmas FM

Whats happens if you eat the Christmas decorations? You get tinsel-itus !

ps… we also have a map of Christmas tree shops in Dublin and a map of toy shops

Given today’s lovely snowy weather (and ensuing mayhem on the roads/rail/air) I thought it might be nice to pull together a few snowy links for people based in Dublin.

Irish Rail Weather Watch, also see their regular and informative Irish Rail twitter updates. Updates include the DART service.

Dublin Bus have updates on their website.

Dublin Airport also has information on its website.

You can view Dublin City Council traffic cameras. DCC also provide a map of roads it will be salting.

AA Road Watch on Twitter

Bus Éireann updates

Some schools will also be closed due to adverse conditions. According to 98fm these schools are closed tomorrow.

Last but not least check out met.ie to see the forecast for the coming days.

Any other useful links or info welcome!

It’s brass monkeys outside with chaos on the roads. Dublin Bus have a limited service and their website is down (at the moment). Updates on rail travel can be found on http://twitter.com/irishrail/.

Actually Dublin Bus website is now back up:

On a related note. Here’s pic I took on O’Connell Street earlier today.

I have put together some resources for businesses in Dublin. The new Business Centre allows business owners to carry out a number of tasks on Dublinbynumbers. Businesses can now:

• list their business for free
• edit their business
• Read about Internet Marketing
• Find business resources in Dublin
• Upgrade their account

I’m particularly happy with the Business Resource Centre and the Internet Marketing as they bring together a lot of different resources in the one place.