RIPE will be holding their 66th public meeting in Dublin in May of next year. The meeting will be held in Dublin’s Burlington hotel and will probably see network geeks from across Europe descending on Dublin. Full details on the event are on the event site.
Archive | October, 2012
Yahoo! And Bing To Launch Google Adsense Competitor
In the world of “contextual advertising” ie. where ads are displayed based on a web page’s content, Google’s Adsense has dominated the market for the last decade. While there have been several attempts by other companies to compete in the space, none of the offerings to date have managed to hit the “critical mass” to […]
Online Betting Giant Announces 600 Jobs
Paddy Power, the online betting giant based in Dublin, has announced over 600 new jobs for Dublin. With the new jobs the company will have close to 3000 staff. According to reports this morning the jobs will be in a variety of roles including social media, e-commerce, marketing and research. An Taoiseach, Mr Enda Kenny, […]
Irish Neutral Exchange Joins Twitter And Reveals Data
INEX, the Irish Internet Exchange, where Irish ISPs and content providers “peer” has joined Twitter. While an organisation’s presence on the social media network is hardly newsworthy in itself, the information that they *might* share with Irish internet users is potentially “geektastic” For example: Quietly, while no one was looking, we peered over 45Gbps of […]
Google.ie Hijacked?
It looks like Google.ie has been hijacked The current whois record shows: whois google.ie % Rights restricted by copyright; http://iedr.ie/index.php/mnudomregs/mnudnssearch/96 % Do not remove this notice domain: google.ie descr: Google, Inc descr: Body Corporate (Ltd,PLC,Company) descr: Registered Trade Mark Name admin-c: KR59-IEDR tech-c: CCA7-IEDR registration: 21-March-2002 renewal: 21-March-2013 status: Active nserver: ns1.farahatz.net nserver: ns2.farahatz.net […]
Daft.ie Launch Smart TV App
Online property portal Daft.ie has announced that they’ve launched an App for the Samsung range of “smart” TVs. The new app will allow users to access all advertised properties, search and save them to their existing Daft.ie account. Do you have a smart TV? Would you use this? Related articles Daft.ie Unveil TV ad (technology.ie)
Google’s Sending A Not So Subtle Message?
Google’s auto-complete has upset a few people in the past. The latest little “gem” is going to annoy a few people: The reality is that the “suggestion” is based on users’ search patterns etc, so it’s completely automated and the search giant isn’t actually sending any kind of message
Irish Times New TV Ad
The Irish Times has launched a new advertising campaign entitled The Story of Why. You can read more about the background to the campaign on their site. Here’s the extended version of their TV ad, which runs to 2 minutes. It’s not clear how long the actual TV version is, though obviously it’s not that […]
The Oatmeal Helps Buy Tesla Property
Remember the entire Tesla vs Edison thing a couple of months back? Shortly after that The Oatmeal started a fund on IndieGogo to help buy Tesla’s old workshop in Shoreham, New York – the Wardenclyffe tower and surrounding land. Earlier this evening they announced that they’d signed the paperwork for the deal: It's official: we […]
Infographic: The Internet Explained
Explaining the internet is probably a lot easier using visuals, so here’s a very nice one that we got courtesy of Open Site: