A Geeky Gathering [Podcast #60]

Michele is en route to Beijing this morning for ICANN 46, and Conn phoned him last night at a Dublin hotel for this week’s podcast.  We had a snigger at the annual crop of April Fool stories.

The mobile phone is 40 years old – where did you first see yours?

Twitter expands “cards”.  Amazon expands autorip to vinyl – yes vinyl!  In fact it’s the only physical medium which has seen growth in the last few years.

Blacknight joins the Internet Infrastructure Coalition.  And they’re hiring again!

SEC says it’s OK to use social media to announce financial data.

Conn’s new project is a radio series on RTE Raidio na Gaeltachta to help students preparing for the Leaving Cert Oral Irish exam – with a little help from YouTube!

So … what do you make of bitcoin?  Is it the future of currency?

Netflix teams with Wakowski brothers for new original SciFi series.

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