As ICANN announce “The Big Reveal“, the list of 1930 new generic Top Level Domains which have been applied for by prospective registries, Kelly Hardy joins Michele and Conn to discuss the news, puzzle over “Digital Archery”, and speculate on the prospect of new territory in the world of internet names. The other big news […]
Michele’s in Arizona, at a meeting of domain registrars, discussing policy, including the Registrar Accreditation Agreement. It’s always a struggle to podcast over hotel WiFi but this time we decided it was hopeless. I kept the Skype connection on the studio end, and used Skype-Out to phone Michele’s hotel room. We recorded yesterday on World […]
Our guest this week is Gavin Hanley, an advertising strategist with Google in Ireland. Michele has loads of questions for him about Google Adwords, questions which, he points out, he regularly hears from his customers. Gavin shares his insights into how advertisers can get the best out of Google ads. Michele is worried about some […]
This week’s guest is Barry Shein, President of The World, the first company to offer Internet access to the general public, when it started in 1989. Today some people consider Internet access to be a human right, but back then it was very different. Barry still has the email he received from the US National […]
This week’s guest is Francesco Cetraro of Afilias. From their headquarters in Dublin, Afilias run top level domains such as .info and .mobi and also provide the GoMobi mobile website builder tools (currently available on a 30-day free trial from Blacknight!) For this podcast, Francesco joins us from his home in Sweden, with Michele in Carlow […]
Our guest this week is Paul Savage, SEO expert and Irishman abroad. Paul lives and works in Munich, where he runs BlackDog.ie, an SEO consultancy business. He’s a regular listener to technology.ie and after a twitter exchange with Michele he agreed to come on the show this week for a chat about Search Engine Optimisation. […]
This show was recorded late on Tuesday night, with Michele in a Dublin hotel room prior to taking a New York flight the next day. We talk about the Google ‘Wi-Spy’ story. The New York Times identified the Google engineer who wrote the software – it turns out he’s also the author of Netstumbler, a […]
This week’s guest is Patrick Ruddell, a domainer, and the owner of sciencefiction.com. With a background in real estate, he became interested in domains as an investment career when the property slowdown hit in the US. But he’s quick to point out that the real-estate analogy for web domains is over-used and not very accurate. […]
Serbian tech blogger and social media marketeer, Nebojsa Radovic, aka ENIAC, joins Conn and Michele as a guest on this week’s podcast. Being the week that’s in it, we remember a former flagship of Irish technology with an unfortunate history. Titanic has been somewhat rehabilitated by the movies in recent years, but the current fad […]
Instagram is worth €1bn? What?! In a rare moment of unity, both Conn and Michele are in agreement. Watch out! It’s a big fat tech bubble and it’s gonna blow! Google Plus gets a new look! Social Media Awards longlists are out – and they’re long! Check out Memolane. It builds a timeline of your aggregated […]
