The Science and Home Economics Departments joined forces in Ennis Community College and Gaelcholáiste an Chláir last week, as the Clare schools, which share a campus, hosted an Open Night for prospective students and their families. Ms Lordon, who teaches both Science and Home Economics, organised the Transition Year Home Economics students to create something […]
SpaceX, the commercial Space company founded by Elon Musk has created an account on Flickr and published over 100 pictures under a Creative Commons licence. In so doing they are apparently following NASA’s lead which has traditionally made photographs available in the public domain. Motherboard reports that SpaceX originally used an Attribution-NonCommercial licence but later […]
Yahoo! has acquired Vizify. The announcement was made earlier today. Vizify, if you aren’t familiar with it, offered a simple visual tool to create a virtual bio or CV based on content you shared with social networks. Here’s a screenshot of how mine looks (or looked): The service allowed you to connect social networks such […]
The British Library has just uploaded a million images to Flickr, and they’re all copyright-free! The images come from books held by the library dating from the 17th, 18th and 18th century which have been digitised by Microsoft. The Library hopes to “stimulate and support research concerning printed illustrations” and plans to launch a crowdsourcing […]
A new study has discovered a striking connection between the number of pictures of Hurricane Sandy posted on Flickr and the atmospheric pressure in New Jersey as the hurricane crashed through the US state in 2012. Hurricane Sandy was the second-costliest hurricane to hit the US, hitting 24 states in late October last year, with […]
Tapastreet is a brand new startup. Fresh from the Facebook hackathon on Wednesday, they came to TBEX knowing that travel bloggers would be excited to see their product. The thing about social media is that it wants to be discovered. We tag our content – hashtags, user tags, pingbacks – because we want to make […]
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 […]
This week’s show is all about media manipulation. Michele is reading Trust Me I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator, which explains how media works in our social, mobile age – and how you can use that understanding to manipulate it. We consider the downfall of Digg, once the darling of Web 2.0, whose investors […]
Conn and I talked about Memolane on the podcast this week Here’s their video explaining what the service does: [youtube]http://youtu.be/2MMiMTN9swY[/youtube]
