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Debian User? Check Your Repositories

Michele Neylon — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:44:10 +0000

If you’re a Debian user you may need to verify which repositories you’re using. Apparently one of the unofficial Debian multimedia depositories was using the domain debian-multimedia.org. Unfortunately the domain lapsed and is no longer pointing to valid Debian packages.

Not sure if you’re using it or not?

Simply run this command in a terminal:

grep debian-multimedia.org /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*

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Daft Punk’s Get Lucky “Evolution” Mix

Michele Neylon — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:01:31 +0000

Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” has not only broken records, but it’s also inspired some very cool and entertaining remixes and mashups.

This one is very clever:

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

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Facebook finally gets #hashtags

James Larkin — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:40:30 +0000

Well Facebook was a bit of a flutter yesterday, at least in my stream, with people wondering why there were so many hash tags around. I assumed people were cross-posting from twitter to facebook, but no it’s not that.

Facebook have gone the way of Twitter and Instagram and quite possibly numerous other services and have finally introduced #hashtags to facebook.

Doing a quick search for #hashtag throws up the following

I’m not fully sure what type of impact it’s going to have long run. A possibly more useful search for #lego throws up the following

Of course it’s something I’ve tagged myself. I am however seeing lots more results.

I’m seeing lots of non English posts at the moment, so ultimately I’d like to be able to sort through them. I also wonder how long before the rest of Facebook’s massive user base start catching on and hashtags become a bit too spammy for my liking.

At least for now it seems like it might be good way for businesses to promote themselves and increase their exposure.

And here’s a picture of Squishy making use of one on his page will anyone new find him?

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Grabone By The Numbers

Michele Neylon — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:32:55 +0000

Irish deals site Grabone.ie recently released some figures on the site’s activity.

The site is only 2 years old, but in that time they’ve managed to grab quite a large slice of the market and report 20% share of the “daily deal” market in Ireland.

To illustrate the site’s activity they’ve put this graphic together:

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Magnet Top Netflix ISP Index Again

Michele Neylon — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:09:06 +0000

Irish ISP Magnet has managed to retain its number 1 position on Netflix’s ISP index for the 4th successive month.

UPC dropped 3 place this month, with Digiweb, Eircom and Vodafone rising up the table.

Full details on the Netflix site.

Netflix Publish Latest ISP Index (technology.ie)
Magnet pips Eircom to post (independent.ie)

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Designer Strikes Back At NSA Presentation Style

Michele Neylon — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:10:17 +0000

While most of the media coverage and social media conversations around the NSA and Prism have focussed on the security and privacy implications, some people obviously thought that the NSA could have done a better job of the slides.

So one industrious designer went off and re-did them:

Dear NSA, let me take care of your slides. from Emiland

And of course they’ll happily rejig your slides to improve your presentation too!

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US Whistleblower Speaks

Michele Neylon — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 06:36:43 +0000

Yesterday The Guardian not only revealed who was behind the PRISM leak, but also published an interview with him.

The man in question is a 29 year old American, Edward Snowden.

Here’s the interview:

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

The Washington Post had been contacted by Snowden as well, but they didn’t want to publish as much of the information.

NSA whistleblower reveals himself: ‘I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things’ (theverge.com)
NSA Whistleblower Steps Forward (huffingtonpost.com)
PRISM whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals himself, reasons for leaking surveillance program (engadget.com)

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Hangout Hiccups [Podcast #64]

Conn — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:52:27 +0000

Brought to you by Blacknight it’s the technology.ie podcast episode 64 for June 7 2013 with Michele Neylon and Conn O Muineachain.

Usually we use Skype to link up to record the show – but this week we experimented with Google+ Hangouts. How did it go? Well, old friends James Larkin and Nebojsa Radovic dropped in, and we also met GadManDubs, a music producer who dropped in just before the show ended.

Congratulations to Michele who’s just been elected the first European to chair ICANN’s Registrar Stakeholder Group. And Blacknight are also celebrating a win at the Social Media Awards last week!

UK Government in moves to police online content. Saudis blocking Viber and more. Tablets poised to outsell PCs – just three years after hitting the market. YouTube making money from mobile.

Stripe enable payouts to any US bank account with a simple API call. Zynga employee spills the beans.

Podcasting threatened by Patent Troll. And someone is claiming a patent for the specific use of QR codes on headstones which link to online memorials.

Elon Musk’s vision is so grand, Loic le Meur says it makes him feel like he’s wasted the last 15 years on small ideas.

Social Media + Game of Thrones.

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Social Media Wars Explained With Game of Thrones

Michele Neylon — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 17:41:47 +0000

The various social media networks and services seem to enjoy blocking each others’ users. The guys over at Hootsuite have put together a Game of Thrones styled graphic to show what’s happened so far:

Apart from who has blocked who, it also gives a nice summary of each network’s size. Some are probably a lot bigger than you realise ..
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IPv6 One Year Later

Michele Neylon — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 12:06:56 +0000

Last year was “World IPv6 Launch”

So what’s changed in the last year?

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Technology.ie News & Views on Gadgets & Tech

Debian User? Check Your Repositories

Daft Punk’s Get Lucky “Evolution” Mix

Facebook finally gets #hashtags

Grabone By The Numbers

Magnet Top Netflix ISP Index Again

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