Steve Del Bianco is the guest on today’s podcast (42:16; 24MB; MP3). He’s the executive director of NetChoice, “a trade association of eCommerce businesses and online consumers all of whom share the goal of promoting convenience, choice, and commerce on the net”. Steve is based in Washington DC, where he lobbies on internet issues, but the latest issue he’s focused on is playing […]
After many years, Gillian and Brendan Lally have decided to return home to Ireland with three of their kids. That’s a relatively simple business in this day and age, but they’ve decided to take the scenic route: 30,000 miles, 3 continents, and dozens of countries, over land and sea by truck. Brendan Lally is my […]
I’ve written about the ‘monkey selfie’ photo already this week. Wikipedia users have declared that David Slater‘s photograph of a celebes crested macaque is in the public domain, because the monkey, not David, pressed the button. David Slater is my guest on today’s podcast (17:28; 10MB; MP3). He talks about his trip to Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the three-day expedition during which he shadowed a […]
Conn and Michele recorded a podcast (37:19; 34MB; MP3) in Michele’s office at Blacknight HQ this afternoon. We discuss the Russian Blogging Crackdown and the recent US court ruling that Microsoft must hand over data on a server located in Ireland. Last week, Michele broke the news that ICANN’s 54th public meeting will be held in Dublin next […]
Paddy Power, the bookmaker, has written to almost 650,000 users of its online service advising them that their personal data was breached in a malicious incident in 2010. They say that they had been satisfied at the time that “no financial information or customer passwords had been put at risk” and they did not make the incident public on […]
Aine Kerr, Managing Editor of Storyful, is our guest on today’s podcast (15:59; 9MB; MP3). Storyful calls itself “the world’s first social media news agency”. Founded by ex-RTE anchor Mark Little in 2010, it was acquired by News Corp in 2013 and has offices in Dublin, New York and Hong Kong. “When everyone is a publisher […]
Being hit from behind is the single biggest cause of cycling deaths in the US. It’s a global problem, as the founders of Backtracker discovered when they met a man in their native Stellenbosch, South Africa, who chose to cycle in the face of oncoming traffic, rather than take the risk of being hit unawares from behind. The solution they came up […]
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 […]
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 […]
