Ryanair’s New Online Experience: 5 pages, 40 seconds.
The first phase of Ryanair’s new web strategy went live on Friday, and this morning they held a webinar briefing for media. The new design is certainly less garish than the old one, and although you can still find plenty of examples of primary colour overdose, they’ve emphasised that this is a phased development, with the […]
Mangrove Capital is Looking for Startups with Ambition
Michael Jackson is a partner with Mangrove Capital Partners. They’re a venture capital firm based in Luxembourg with a European vision, who want to invest in businesses with “worldwide potential or people with great ambition”. He thinks the Irish startup scene is very interesting right now, which is why he took the Startup Express to […]
Google AI Figures Things Out For Itself
Google’s image recognition “deep learning” systems have evolved to the point where the engineers working on them no longer understand how they are “thinking”. At the Machine Learning Conference in San Francisco last week, Google Engineer Quoc V Le revealed that the company’s image recognition cluster has learned how to identify items which the programmers don’t […]
A Chat with Patrick from Notion Capital [Video]
Here’s another video from Startup Express. Patrick Norris is originally from Dublin, but is based in London where he works for Notion Capital, “an entrepreneur-backed venture capital firm focused on Cloud Computing and Software-as-a-Service“. I spoke to him shortly before boarding the train to Web Summit. Loading the player … Related articles Trustev Closes $3 […]
Google & Bing Block Child Abuse Images
We talk a lot about freedom of speech and net neutrality on technology websites such as this. Information should be free; search engines should not censor; and people should be allowed to make their own judgements about the kind of content they wish to access. There are sound reasons for this approach: for human rights, […]
Blogging Opens Doors says Lorna [Video]
Lorna Dollery won Best Blog Post at Blog Awards Ireland, for her piece on the reality of life for an Irish graduate. A media graduate, she thinks that blogging is essential for students and young professionals who are trying to get established in their field. Loading the player … Lorna has recently emigrated to the […]
Twitter says: Oops! You’re not an Advertiser – Do You Want To Be?
It’s the social media equivalent of bumping into someone as a pretext to asking them on a date. (Does anyone actually do that? In movies maybe? OK, forget it.) Yesterday Twitter sent emails to several (not all) Twitter users inviting them to try Twitter’s advertising platform which has been extended to all “small and medium […]
Geeky Controversy [Audio]
Brought to you by Blacknight, it’s the Technology.ie Podcast with Michele Neylon and Conn Ó Muíneacháin. It’s our first show together since Conn joined Blacknight full time, and we talk a bit about how Technology.ie is being developed with additional content, in particular video. Michele is excited because Twitter have just announced that their advertising […]
Loyaltybuild Ripples Spread
Details continue to emerge surrounding the security breach involving customer’s financial data at LoyaltyBuild. The ESB has confirmed that 6,700 of its customers have had non-financial data compromised in the attack. According to The Irish Times: Loyaltybuild said the further data breaches, yet to be publicised, had only come to light late yesterday evening and […]
Howlin Withdraws Amendment on FOI Fees
The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin TD, has withdrawn the amendments to the FOI Bill which were introduced at a late stage last week. As the committee debate on the bill got underway, the Minister announced the withdrawal, citing the risk of “confusion and misinterpretation” of the intention of the amendments. The […]