Today’s podcast (18:32; 11MB; MP3) features Jules Coleman, co-founder of Hassle.com, which launched in Dublin yesterday. Hassle.com is an online marketplace that allows busy people to book and pay for someone to come and clean their house. Traditionally, this has been a difficult task, heavily dependent on word-of-mouth recommendations and trust, both on the part of the client […]
Don’t you just hate it when science gets in the way of a good story? No doubt JRR Tolkien thought it would be cool to give telescopic vision to elves, but it turns out that the laws of wave diffraction make it physically impossible to distinguish the detail which Legolas describes in The Two Towers. Or […]
So you like watching Netflix? TV shows, documentaries, movies – you can lose hours in there, I know! But what if you could get paid for it as well? No, I’m not kidding! It turns out that Netflix employ actual humans as taggers. Their job is to watch Netflix content, and then generate tags to help describe and categorise the […]
Ryanair today announced Ryanair Labs, “a state-of-the-art digital and IT innovation hub” based at its Dublin Office Campus in Swords, as it continues the recruitment of 200 new staff to develop “a world class online travel platform”. It’s the latest step in the company’s embrace of the internet, which saw the replacement of their old “1990s-style” website last […]
Here’s something special for a Monday. Stephen Malinowsky has spent a lifetime working on his Music Animation Software, which literally brings a new dimension to music appreciation, by representing it visually. The arrival of YouTube gave him “a great way for me to share my work”, and this video of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor has had over 22 million views […]
So with this being the 4th of July weekend here’s the perfect short film .. Roland Emmerich’s blockbuster Independence Day normally runs to 145 minutes, but this abbreviated version with pug puppies nails it in under 2! Enjoy 🙂
Facebook have been criticised this week for messing with our minds. But what if, as this video suggests, we’re all just busy spoofing each other about how great our lives are? HT: Pat Carroll. Related articles Irish Voicemail Can be Hacked – Without a PIN The Muppets Hunger Games Spoof Trailer | Official HD Google Blackmail
Here’s a short ‘postscript podcast’ (9:08; 5MB; MP3) recorded by Michele and I after we said goodbye to Ray King, our guest from this morning’s episode. We chat about the ESB/Vodafone FTTH announcement, and Ireland’s showing in the latest Akamai State of the Internet Report. Technology.ie is brought to you by Blacknight. Why not register a .US domain name for the day […]
New generic Top Level Domains are now available in Ireland, and .INK and .WIKI are among the first being offered by Blacknight. Both TLDs are owned by Top Level Design LLC based in Portland, Oregon, and their CEO Ray King joins Conn and Michele on today’s 4th of July Podcast (31:13; 18MB; MP3). Ray’s company applied for 10 new […]
Everything on the internet can probably be explained using cats .. so why not HTTP response codes? via
