“If you could change the price of one thing to lift up the lives of the world’s poorest people, it would be the price of energy.” – Bill Gates [youtube]https://youtu.be/MzDE8rTRqY4[/youtube] As the Climate Conference gets underway in Paris, Bill Gates publishes this video to explain the rationale for the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, formed with other […]
Archive | November, 2015
Congregation, the Bijou Unconference, and the Charm of Small Numbers
Congregation, the ‘bijou’ social media unconference is on this weekend in the little village of Cong, Co Mayo. It’s about quality, not quantity, you see: the anti-Web Summit, if you like! Blacknight is sponsoring the event, and I’m bringing my video camera to report on the gathering. Meanwhile, here are some little numbers for you to ponder the […]
Netflix Offering Gift Cards For Christmas
Netflix has been investing heavily in producing original content over the last couple of years. One of its more recent offerings is Marvel’s Jessica Jones starring Krysten Ritter which has been receiving very positive reviews. Now in the run-up to Christmas the company has announced the availability of gift cards, so that you can buy […]
Why ICANN’s Consensus Model Beats Politics [Video]
People unfamiliar with the workings of the internet sometimes express surprise at the idea that there is no-one ‘in charge’; and that so much depends on consensus. To those more familiar with politics than engineering, it may seem inefficient, but as ICANN’s Ombudsman Chris LaHatte explains, there are particular strengths to the consensus approach, inherent in ICANN’s multi-stakeholder model. [youtube]https://youtu.be/3DqdYkz1SFw[/youtube] “Often, if you […]
Outify.Me has a Passion for the Outdoors [Video]
Carlos Oleaga is passionate about outdoor adventure sports like hiking and rafting. So he created Outify.me as an online marketplace for people like himself. From Madrid he came to Web Summit in Dublin, where we spoke to him. [youtube]https://youtu.be/S9-Y_y2mAe0[/youtube] It’s been a busy few weeks in the Irish tech scene. We’ve got lots more video […]
Surface 4 Pro – More Than Scratching the Surface for Enterprise Customers
The Irish release date of the Microsoft Surface Pro 4 has been eagerly anticipated by its fans since it was announced in October in New York along side the Band 2, Book and Lumia 950 and 950XL. The devices is set to go on sale in Ireland today, 19th November 2015. Microsoft has touted the […]
Twinsters: A Story of Nature and Nurture in the Internet Age
Twinsters is a story of the Internet Age. Identical twins separated at birth, adopted and brought up on different continents, Samantha Futerman and Anaïs Bordier would probably never have met if a friend of Anaïs hadn’t seen Samantha in a viral video on YouTube. From there it was a click to Samantha’s own YouTube account and […]
.EUS Domain Names are About Basque Identity [Video]
.EUS is the Top-Level Domain for the Basque community (Euskara): a nation with its own language and culture, originating in a region of Northern Spain and Southern France. Launched in 2014, .EUS will celebrate its first anniversary next month. We met the CEO of the puntuEUS registry, Josu Waliño, at ICANN 54 in Dublin. He told us all about their […]
Bank of Ireland Lays Down a Trackway for Startups [Video]
Bank of Ireland’s Innovation Team was out in force at Web Summit last week, promoting their new StartLab incubation programme. We spoke to their Entrepreneur-in-Residence Gene Murphy. [youtube]https://youtu.be/DiJrxQiBAvA[/youtube] StartLab is an intensive six-month boot camp; the first one starts in Galway in January, and applications close on 27 November. Before that, however, there are a number […]
Internet Growth and IPv4 Depletion
The guys over at ARIN have produced an interesting graphic that tracks the history of the internet’s growth and IPv4 address depletion. Yes, we are all out of IPv4 addresses now .. Related articles ARIN IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero (arin.net) North America is COMPLETELY OUT of new IPv4 addresses (go.theregister.com) ARIN Finally Runs Out […]