ICANN 50 is underway in London, and as we’ve reported, it’s the biggest ever. Latest reports are that 2803 people have checked in out of 3787 registered for the event, exceeding the previous registration record of 3141 set in Beijing. By definition, you can’t get a more online group of people than ICANN. That’s reflected in […]
More than 3,300 people from around the world have registered for ICANN’s 50th meeting in London, which got underway at the weekend, making it the largest in the organization’s history. “Today is a great day for advancement of the multistakeholder model and its inclusivity,” said Fadi Chehadé, President and CEO of ICANN. “ICANN 50 is […]
In today’s podcast (19:11; 10.9MB; MP3), Conn catches up with Blacknight’s CEO Michele Neylon, who’s just back from the US. He’s been appointed to the board of i2Coalition – the Internet Infrastructure Coalition which represents the interests of companies “who build the nuts and bolts of the internet”. Blacknight joined last year, joining companies like Dell, Amazon and Google. The […]
Over on the Blacknight blog, Michele Neylon has smoke coming out of his ears. Here’s a picture: He’s upset because he wants to sell the shiny new generic top level domains (gTLDs) that are coming on stream, but ICANN won’t let him, or any other EU domain registrar. Before you can sell new gTLDs, says […]
For our first audio podcast of 2014, Michele Neylon spills the beans on social media success for business. Blacknight is Ireland’s largest provider of hosting and domains – but it’s also a leader in the use of blogging and social media for business, winning numerous awards (and shortlisted) for online customer engagement in the last few […]
We feature a lot of serial entrepreneurs on technology.ie, but Kevin McDermott is different. Call him a long-haul entrepreneur: he’s no less innovative for that, having ridden the waves of technology since he started developing educational CD-ROMs (look it up kids) for the US market in 1995. These days Capture Productions is focused on mobile […]
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 […]
Last night Technology.ie’s Michele Neylon attended the Net Visionary Awards, the IIA’s annual recognition of Irish tech talent. As CEO of Blacknight, sponsors of the category for the Most “joyous to look at and splendid to use” Web Design, he was there to present an award. But when when IIA CEO Joan Mulvihill stood up […]
Brought to you by Blacknight it’s the technology.ie podcast episode 64 for June 7 2013 with Michele Neylon and Conn O Muineachain. Usually we use Skype to link up to record the show – but this week we experimented with Google+ Hangouts. How did it go? Well, old friends James Larkin and Nebojsa Radovic dropped in, and we also met GadManDubs, a music producer who […]
It’s makeover time for websites,as the Irish Times and Irish Independent try out new looks. Google Plus gets a touch up – nobody notices. Facebook announce a new look – has anybody actually seen it yet? Anyway, Facebook is uncool. Again. Google reader gets culled. Conn and Michele go and wallow in aggregator nostalgia. […]
