John Breslin of the SIOC project explains Web 3.0 to us and how it will pave the way for a richer Web experience.
Last week ComReg announced that Eircom withdrew their complaint regarding lowering the Line rental fee charged to third party operators. We spoke with Peter Evan’s, Product Director of BT Ireland about the future of Irish Boradband.
Today, everybody using Twitter, Facebook, or an online Forum is a publisher. As such we need to start paying more attention to what we say online, particularly when talking about others. This January the Irish laws of Libel and Slander were dropped, replaced with a general law of Defamation. This we we spoke about the new law.
We were joined by Darragh Doyle or boards.ie and Marie McGonagle, Lecturer in Media Law at NUIG. Marie was also involved in the reformation of Irish Defamation law.
Marie McGonagle is a Law Lecturer at NUI Galway, specialising in Media Law. She was involved in the reformation process for the new Defamation Act, 2009.
We spoke with Marie about the new Act in light of online communities and bloggers. We asked if the new law would give the Garda wider search and seizure powers for those found guilty of Blasphemy. We also posed the question, “Is a blog a periodical?”
This week our own Patrick O’Doherty won the Google Award at the BT Young Scientist, catching the eye of the Irish Times.
We discussed his project, We Predict It, a tool to track and predict trends on Twitter. As We Predict It is powered by tweets (and so by [...] Continue Reading.
Last Friday I interviewed Torsten Kinsella and Lloyd Hanney of God Is an Astronaut (homepage, Last.fm, MySpace, Wikipedia) in the Róisín Dubh, Galway.
We spoke of their upcoming album, the loss of visuals in their live set, a new mixing desk that will let them replicate their studio sound live, record deals, booking agents, national attitudes to their music scenes and how to gain a following.
This week Dave, Gareth and Shane chat about Google’s shiny new phone, the Nexus One, what hardware sales mean for Google, Google’s moves toward being a mobile carrier, and what cloud services could mean for personal data.
We also had an interview with Ronan Skehill (Homepage, Twitter, LinkedIn) of PinPoints (Webpage, Twitter), a GPS link service that is device agnostic, converting links to the format your device supports, be it Blackberry Maps, Nokia Maps, &c. Nokia demo’d PinPoints at their CES ovi stand and we discussed the future potential of the service.
In an extended, for web only show, we talk about getting fired for running SETI@home, a pirate Stock exchange, challenging Danish copyright law, upcoming conference talks, an Irish company signing a deal with LG for UWB chips, and we go on a bit of a Media/Google rant.
Travis Goodspeed joined the panel this week to talk about vulnerabilities in embedded systems, bank data and quantum computing.
