Archive | May, 2013

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Datacentre Pr0n [Podcast #63]

Brought to you by Blacknight it’s the technology.ie podcast episode 63 for May 30 2013 with Michele Neylon and Conn O Muineachain Michele’s back from the Shift Conference in Split, Croatia, where he gave a talk on domains. Daft Punk break records on Spotify.  Rijksmuseum shares high resolution images of its catalogue.  Yahoo buys Tumblr and gives […]

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The Story Behind Assange and Wikileaks

Julian Assange and wikileaks have both had an important impact on politics, government and how digital intersects with both. So this documentary film should make for interesting viewing. Here’s the trailer [youtube]http://youtu.be/gyuz70I-kio[/youtube] Wikileaks themselves don’t seem to be overly happy with their portrayal in the film, but that might make the film even more interesting. […]

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WordPress Turns 10

10 years ago today Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little released the first version of WordPress.Statista have released a simple little graphic to illustrate the growth in popularity of the blogging software / CMS:

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Podcast with Ken Hansen of .NYC

Ken Hansen of Neustar and .NYC joins Michele and Conn for this week’s podcast.  With over 20 years of Internet and telecom, sales, marketing and business development experience, Ken led the business development efforts that resulted in Neustar’s entry into the registry business, the award of dot-biz by ICANN and the Department of Commerce selection of Neustar […]

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Netflix Publish Latest ISP Index

Netflix have published their monthly ISP Index. For Ireland the ranking is now: Which is pretty much the same as last month. But what about historically? That’s a little bit more interesting: But the speeds themselves are still really slow with only one ISP (Magnet) giving an average over 2 megabits per second. Remember how […]

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Podcast with Gabriela Avram of 3DCamp

Here’s a bonus podcast for this week featuring Gabriela Avram, lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Limerick and one of the organisers of 3DCamp, which will be held on 25 May. In the spirit of BarCamp, 3Dcamp is open, inclusive and free to attend – it’s also very cool, with a focus on […]

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Live Fast & Prosper [Podcast #62]

Brought to you by Blacknight – it’s another Technology.ie podcast, with Michele & Conn and the tech news of the week. Remember Barcamp?  3DCamp is flying the flag in Limerick on May 25th.  (Listen out for a bonus podcast on this tomorrow!) The case begins in the Supreme Court in the Data Protection Commisioner’s appeal […]

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Mac OSX Productivity Bundle

Software bundles for OSX are fairly common and often great value. MacHeist and others have made them very popular. If you missed the last MacHeist bundle then this week’s bundle from StackSocial might be worth looking at. It gives you $690 worth of software for $49.99. A single copy of Camtasia for Mac would cost […]

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