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Conn Ó Muíneacháin is a radio producer and the founder and managing director of Edgecast Media, a digital media production and consultancy business.
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Michele Neylon and friend after a hard day at the Parallels Summit

Ice Cold in Orlando [Podcast #17]

By on February 16, 2012 in Podcasts
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Michele’s in Florida at the Parallels Summit, but I tracked him down for the podcast.  It wasn’t difficult! It sounds busy, but fun.  Lots of meetings, and a keynote speech from Guy Kawasaki.  Oh – and an ice bar! Here at home, EMC announced an initiative with the government to help developers develop cloud apps [...]

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All Hail the Mighty Cloud! Building Our Tech Industry on Buzzwords

By on February 15, 2012 in General

This week EMC launched their cloud4gov initiative, along with the government, and other industry partners.  The Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte made a nice speech. I was talking tech on Raidio na Gaeltachta the next day when the interviewer asked me whether these kinds of announcements could ever deliver what they seem to promise.  And [...]

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Martha Rotter and Stewart Curry from Idea Magazine [Tech Heroes Podcast #2]

By on January 31, 2012 in Podcasts
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Idea Magazine is the freshest thing in Irish publishing, serving the tech and startup community in Ireland and lovingly designed for your tablet, phone or PC by the team at woop.ie (Write Only Once; Publish It Everywhere!) Martha Rotter and Stewart Curry join Michele and Conn for this week’s Tech Heroes chat, to discuss Developer Evangelism, [...]

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An Irish SOPA to an Irish Problem [Podcast #15]

By on January 26, 2012 in Podcasts
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Brought to you by Blacknight, it’s The Technology.ie Podcast, Episode 15, with Conn Ó Muíneacháin and Michele Neylon. This podcast was recorded as the SOPA was hitting the fan in Ireland.  A campaign by internet users and business gathered tens of thousands of names in just over  a day.  Michele debated with the Minister on RTÉ’s Drivetime (MP3 is here) [...]

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Year of the Dragon

“Yippee Doo Dah” [Podcast #14]

By on January 19, 2012 in Podcasts
Technology.ie Podcast #14 [ 40:59 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Have you ever wondered how businesses and organisations manage their social media?  In this episode Michele Neylon talks about what they do at Blacknight.  One of the key questions is how a team of people can administer a single social media account.  Blacknight have been using a tool called Cotweet, but Michele is concerned that [...]

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Bag of Kindles

Kindle Fire?

By on January 17, 2012 in General

Spotted in County Clare.  OK, so it’s not an iPad killer, but that’s hardly an excuse to burn them by the bagful, is it? Related Posts:Technology.ie Podcast #3

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Tech Heroes: Conor O’Neill

By on January 16, 2012 in Podcasts
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I’ve been trying to get Conor O’Neill on the show for a while.  He’s a great blogger and entrepreneur and a cheerleader for Irish Tech. But what I really wanted to talk to him about was ‘home entertainment hacking’!  Then Netflix launched in Ireland and I sent him a ping. Luckily he was free to [...]

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No Recession in Imagination [Podcast #13]

By on January 12, 2012 in Podcasts
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The title of this week’s podcast is a translation of a phrase Michele tweeted earlier this week:  ”Níl aon chúlú sa tsamhlaíocht” – there’s no recession in imagination!  Michele found it in his email in a newsletter from Kila – the band who’s music you hear at the start of each episode of the podcast. [...]

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Welcome to Ireland Netflix, but what about the bandwidth?

By on January 10, 2012 in General

When I blogged about my plans to “cut the cord” the other day, I didn’t know that Netflix was coming to Ireland and the UK. But when I turned on Twitter this morning it was the subject of every second tweet. First of all, hats off to them for a simple sign up.  This photograph [...]

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SOPA, Facebook Privacy and Water [Podcast #12]

By on January 7, 2012 in Podcasts
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It’s a new year and the lads are full of good intentions!  Michele resolves to be healthy in 2012.  Conn just wants to be a better webmaster.  He’s got a collection of forgotten domains and neglected websites hosted all over the place, and he’s going to clean them up and make them work! Michele demonstrates [...]

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