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File It In The Shredder [Podcast #29]

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 […]

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Another Arrow in the Linux Quiver [Podcast #28]

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. […]

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War Driving, SEO and Michele’s Inner Voice [Podcast #27]

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 […]

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Patrick Ruddell - Founder & Editor in Chief of ScienceFiction.com

Cooking with Patrick [Podcast #26]

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. […]

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Dot-Bubble [Podcast #24]

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 […]

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Hand Waving and Bluster [Podcast #23]

Recently the victim of a burglary, Michele puts a brave face on things as he Skypes Conn this week from an aged laptop.  We discuss April Fool tech gags, including Google Maps with 8-bit graphics and get nostalgic for simpler times.  Nowadays we’ve got hundreds of times more computing power in our pockets.  What would […]

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Gratuitous pic of Zoe Saldana inspired by Michele's Pinterest

Scrapbooks and Supermodels [Podcast 22]

Michele is back from his travels and joins Conn for a podcast that’s all about boundaries.  Yes, we’re a pair of loudmouth extroverts, but that doesn’t mean that we share everything! Take Pinterest, for example.  Conn likes Michele’s collection of Actresses and Models, but he’s not sure he wants to share his taste (or lack […]

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Patently Obvious [Podcast #21]

Brought to you by Blacknight, it’s the Technology.ie podcast episode 21, presented by Conn Ó Muíneacháin and Michele Neylon. “It’s not like I’m over here in Costa Rica sitting by the pool drinking nice cocktails all day long and working on my tan”, explains Michele.  He’s at ICANN 43 this week and apparently it’s not going smoothly.  New TLDs are […]

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Dot com? You're mine!

All Your Domain Are Belong to US [Podcast #20]

Brought to you by Blacknight, it’s the Technology.ie podcast episode 20, presented by Conn Ó Muíneacháin and Michele Neylon.  The Blacknight CEO is off to Costa Rica to preach the gospel of social media at the LACTLD conference, followed straight away by ICANN 43. Among the items sure to be discussed is the latest domain seizure by US authorities, […]

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Natasa Loves .Me [Podcast #19]

Brought to you by Blacknight, it’s the Technology.ie podcast episode 19, presented by Conn Ó Muíneacháin and Michele Neylon.  Our guest this week is Nataša Đukanović, Sales Director for the .me Top Level Domain. Montegro was granted the .me tld in 2006 and Nataša’s company began registering domains in 2008.  Now they have 600,000 domains registered, approximately one per head […]

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