Social Media Wars Explained With Game of Thrones
The various social media networks and services seem to enjoy blocking each others’ users. The guys over at Hootsuite have put together a Game of Thrones styled graphic to show what’s happened so far: Apart from who has blocked who, it also gives a nice summary of each network’s size. Some are probably a lot […]
IPv6 One Year Later
Last year was “World IPv6 Launch” So what’s changed in the last year? Via
Datacentre Pr0n [Podcast #63]
Brought to you by Blacknight it’s the technology.ie podcast episode 63 for May 30 2013 with Michele Neylon and Conn O Muineachain Michele’s back from the Shift Conference in Split, Croatia, where he gave a talk on domains. Daft Punk break records on Spotify. Rijksmuseum shares high resolution images of its catalogue. Yahoo buys Tumblr and gives […]
The Story Behind Assange and Wikileaks
Julian Assange and wikileaks have both had an important impact on politics, government and how digital intersects with both. So this documentary film should make for interesting viewing. Here’s the trailer [youtube]http://youtu.be/gyuz70I-kio[/youtube] Wikileaks themselves don’t seem to be overly happy with their portrayal in the film, but that might make the film even more interesting. […]
Where Should You Post That Update?
There’s quite a few entertaining graphics doing the rounds to help us all decide where we should share our thoughts (and other people’s wisdom) This one from College Humor is excellent: What do you think?
WordPress Turns 10
10 years ago today Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little released the first version of WordPress.Statista have released a simple little graphic to illustrate the growth in popularity of the blogging software / CMS:
Pioneers Festival Opens Application Window For Startups
Pioneers Festival is being held in Vienna, Austria in late October. The main event is being held on October 30 – 31, but there’s also an event for startups on the 29th. They’ve opened applications today. Full details here.
Podcast with Ken Hansen of .NYC
Ken Hansen of Neustar and .NYC joins Michele and Conn for this week’s podcast. With over 20 years of Internet and telecom, sales, marketing and business development experience, Ken led the business development efforts that resulted in Neustar’s entry into the registry business, the award of dot-biz by ICANN and the Department of Commerce selection of Neustar […]
Netflix Publish Latest ISP Index
Netflix have published their monthly ISP Index. For Ireland the ranking is now: Which is pretty much the same as last month. But what about historically? That’s a little bit more interesting: But the speeds themselves are still really slow with only one ISP (Magnet) giving an average over 2 megabits per second. Remember how […]
Podcast with Gabriela Avram of 3DCamp
Here’s a bonus podcast for this week featuring Gabriela Avram, lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Limerick and one of the organisers of 3DCamp, which will be held on 25 May. In the spirit of BarCamp, 3Dcamp is open, inclusive and free to attend – it’s also very cool, with a focus on […]