It’s the Conn & Michele show again this week! I brought up the Chris Andrews “@brianformerff” twitter story – old news now I know, but I’m seriously impressed by the tech-detective skills of Eddy Carroll who exposed the former TD behind the troll. Twitter’s latest API releaseputs the squeeze on developers, but do end-users really […]
The Irish Internet Association is running a FREE half day event entitled “Search Meets Social” on September 20th 2012 in Dublin. The event features Rand Fishkin, founder and CEO of SEOMoz, Gareth Lambe from Facebook, Vanessa Vallejo (Mindshare) and Kieran Flanagan (Marketo) Full details on the event, as well as ticket booking, on the official […]
This week Conn wasn’t able to do the show, so it’s my first solo gig. Thankfully I was joined on the show by a very gracious and understanding special guest – Pinky Brand. Sorry if the audio quality isn’t up to standard – I usually leave the audio stuff to Conn! Pinky has been working […]
Google+ will finally be getting short and sane URLs for user profiles and business pages. The announcement was made (on the social network) last night by one of the Google+ staffers. At the moment the feature is only being made available to a “select” number of brand and personal pages and profiles. Examples include Hugo […]
Search engine giant Google has announced a change to how it treats certain types of sites in search results. In a blog post the company announced that sites with a large number of copyright claims against them would be penalised: Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal in our rankings: […]
Google’s doodle today is interactive again and this time the theme is canoeing. As usual you can control the avatar using your keyboard, though this time round you can also control the canoe’s position using the “up” and “down” arrows, though that’s not indicated in the instructions [youtube]http://youtu.be/e3StGKCGc_Q[/youtube] Yet again when doing the screengrab I […]
Today’s Google doodle is sports themed again. This time round it’s basketball and yes, I still can’t play! Here’s a quick screengrab of it: [youtube]http://youtu.be/b2FPEXQfYK0[/youtube] Related articles Shootin’ Hoops – London 2012 Basketball Google Doodle Game (techie-buzz.com) Shoot Hoops With Tomorrow’s Interactive Google Doodle (mashable.com) Google’s Interactive Doodle Is Olympic Themed (technology.ie)
Google’s doodles are usually static images, but from time to time they have pretty slick animated ones. Today’s is pretty cool, though I didn’t do too well trying to control the little man in the animation: [youtube]http://youtu.be/kmSH26CbOL8[/youtube] You can browse past Google doodles on their dedicated site. Related articles Google London 2012 hurdles doodle lets […]
While this is in no means ground breaking it’s a rather nice little feature. I’ve known for a long time that Google will do your sums for you. Head to google.com and put in 20×10= hey presto it’ll throw the answer back to you. In general the answer is displayed for you before any potential […]
This week we (ok – I) managed to lose a third of the podcast due to a power failure (ok – an idiot who forgot to plug in the laptop). Yet it still weighs in at an hour! That’s because Michele and I were joined by someone every bit as talkative as ourselves. Krystian Kozerawski, […]
