Archive | May, 2012

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The Google Stone [Podcast #31]

Our guest this week is Gavin Hanley, an advertising strategist with Google in Ireland.  Michele has loads of questions for him about Google Adwords, questions which, he points out, he regularly hears from his customers.  Gavin shares his insights into how advertisers can get the best out of Google ads. Michele is worried about some […]

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Thanks, Al Gore [Podcast #30]

This week’s guest is Barry Shein, President of The World, the first company to offer Internet access to the general public, when it started in 1989.  Today some people consider Internet access to be a human right, but back then it was very different.  Barry still has the email he received from the US National […]

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What Should We Ask The President Of The World?

We love getting interesting guests on the show. This week’s no different. We’ll be talking to the President of the World – Barry Shein. Barry’s been involved in technology since before there was an Internet .. and he’s also the founder of the first commercial dial-up ISP on the planet. Here’s a quick snippet from […]

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Ryanair Takes Website Offline

When I first read this story earlier during the week I thought it was a joke, but apparently it’s not.. Ryanair is shutting down their website from tonight at 2200 until 2200 tomorrow night. Nobody will be able to book flights for a 24 hour period – the “shop” will be offline Here’s their official […]

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File It In The Shredder [Podcast #29]

This week’s guest is Francesco Cetraro of Afilias.  From their headquarters in Dublin, Afilias run top level domains such as .info and .mobi and also provide the GoMobi mobile website builder tools (currently available on a 30-day free trial from Blacknight!) For this podcast, Francesco joins us from his home in Sweden, with Michele in Carlow […]

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Game Of Thrones Via Floppy

So there *is* something useful that you can do with floppy disk drives! Here you have it – the Game of Thrones theme music as played by 8 floppy disk drives: [youtube]http://youtu.be/LgfPYetWWJw[/youtube] And if you thought that wasn’t good enough there’s even a Facebook page dedicated to other musical creations from the same person!  

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Tesla vs Edison

Earlier this week The Oatmeal published a very amusing and quite educational comic about Nikola Tesla (Никола Тесла) and also made quite a scathing attack on Edison. You can read the comic here. Tesla was obviously a genius and was behind a lot of the technology we use today, including the AC electricity that powers […]

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Who Should We Interview?

Over the last few months we’ve spoken to quite a few people from Ireland and overseas. We’ve spoken to people about domain names, writing, SEO, marketing, technology (in general) and a whole lot more. We’ve recorded episodes in Ireland, Africa, the US, Costa Rica and various parts of Europe. So who should we be speaking […]

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Computer Icons Are A Bit Dated

Scott Hanselman’s recent post about computer icons is getting quite a bit of attention over on Slashdot. In his post Scott goes through some of the more commonly used icons that appear in both software interfaces as well as those of many web based services – and even portable devices such as the smartphone that […]

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