They’ve gone “gangbusters” in the US for proximity technology such as Apple’s iBeacon, says Sean O’Sullivan of LocalSocial. In Europe, we’re beginning to see deployments in just the last few weeks. One of those deployments is LocalSocial’s app for Savill’s Real Estate: Savill’s on Show. It’s designed for use in show-houses: users can install and run the […]
Today’s podcast (22:39; 13MB; MP3) features an interview with Paul Durrant, who operates the Hotline.ie service. Last week, Hotline.ie published its annual report for 2013. Since 1999 it has provided a service for internet users to report illegal content, particularly Child Sexual Abuse Material, on the Internet. Reports are treated as anonymous, and the service also relies […]
Ever wondered how many blog posts were published every minute? How about how many tweets are sent? Or videos uploaded? There are several graphics doing the rounds which visualise an average internet minute, hour or day. However I’d never seen anything that attempted to visualise it in real time. This site does. Click the animation […]
Via ISOC, here’s a nice clear graphic showing global IPv6 adoption, growth and other metrics: Unfortunately, as it’s global, it doesn’t go into enough detail to show how few ISPs in some countries actually offer IPv6 to their users. At time of writing none of the major Irish ISPs offer it, though they all […]
These days it’s not enough to simply organise a conference, says Adrian Hopkins, you need to create a community around the event. Adrian is the Conference Director with The Sunday Business Post, organisers of The Digital Media and Marketing Summit, which was held last week at Croke Park. Almost 400 people attended the event to […]
John Oliver’s show “Last Week Tonight” airs in the US on Sundays and on Sky Atlantic on Tuesdays. This week Oliver spent about 13 minutes on “net neutrality”. It’s John Oliver, so his way of explaining things is hilarious and very irreverent – and yes there is some strong language at times. Worth watching, as […]
The Social Media Awards 2014 edition, aka #sockies14, is on this week. In the runup to the event they’ve released a video about… socks.. featuring Rick O’Shea. Enjoy: Full details about the event as well as tickets are available via the official site. Related articles We Made The Finals Of #Sockies14 !! (blacknight.com) Knock their […]
While most videos uploaded to Youtube and other video sharing sites get little or no views, ones that go “viral” can clock up millions of views. However in the case of Gangnam Style the viewing numbers are off the charts – literally. The official video broke the 2 billion views mark a few days ago […]
