It’s Global Entrepreneurship Week, and four Irish cities are taking part in the Global Startup Battle. Galway Startup Weekend was on last weekend, and Dublin, Cork and Limerick are repeating the exercise next weekend. Gene Murphy is one of the organisers of Startup Weekend Dublin, and he’s my guest on today’s podcast. Click on the player above to […]
Eoin Kennedy joins us on today’s podcast. Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download it here: 9:59; 6MB; MP3. Eoin is the organiser of CONGregation, the one-day ‘un-conference’ on social media held in the quiet and lovely village of Cong, County Mayo, now in its second year. Technology.ie went along to the inaugural CONGregation […]
TV and radio producer Pat O’Mahony has a reputation as someone who is as comfortable with new media as with old. That’s partly due to a series of Christmas programmes he made for RTE in 2009, 2010 and 2011 called Now That’s What You Called News. Based on Google’s Zeitgeist Report on popular searches, the show […]
Justin Mares will headline the sixth and final Growth Hackers Dublin event on November 3 at the Abbey Theatre. He’s the co-author of Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers, which he co-wrote with Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of search engine DuckDuckGo. Justin is the former Director of Revenue at Exceptional, a software company that Rackspace acquired for 8 figures in 2013. […]
Today’s podcast is an interview with Patrick Sullivan, an economic development consultant who has worked on broadband strategy in Wales and Ireland. He’s part of a partnership of organisations behind Project SABER (SAtellite Broadband for European Regions), which is making the case for satellite broadband as part of the solution to reducing the digital divide. Click on […]
Kids have needs and parents have questions, and it’s not always easy to find answers to those questions in conventional app stores and marketplaces. That’s why a group of parents got together to set up MomsWithApps.com, which began with a handful of parents and developers, but is now supported by ACT – the App Association, a […]
Yesterday we wrote about the Eircode postcode system which is going to be introduced in Ireland in 2015. We posted a video by Gary Delaney, CEO of rival company Loc8Code, whose complaint to the EU about the conduct of the Government’s tender for the service, resulted in a declaration that the Department of Communications had […]
Our guest on today’s podcast is Úna-Minh Kavanagh, blogger, journalist, broadcaster and campaigner. (Download here: 19:38; 11MB; MP3 – or click the player above). She’s worked for JustEat.ie and interned with Storyful and most recently worked for Her.ie. Now she’s taking a new path so I Skyped her to find out more. Úna’s going back to […]
mGrad.ie, Ireland’s newest graduate jobs website, launched today, giving students and graduates access to the interview questions used by over 50 employers. Its founder, Luke Ferriter, is our guest on today’s podcast (click the player above or download here: 11:21; 7MB; MP3). The site contains step by step walkthroughs on how to get a job […]
“It costs an absolute minimum of 100,000 dollars to run a registry for a year, with almost zero registrations” says Andy Churley on today’s podcast. (Download: 32:35; 19MB; MP3, or click the player above). Ultimately, new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) will need to reach a “critical mass” of perhaps 50,000 to 100,000 registrations if they are to survive. […]
