In case you haven’t come across it elsewhere already today, Conn O’Muineachain has launched a channel on Intruders.tv focussing on Irish startups.
From the About page:
Our main objective is to take you to the major conferences and events around the world, interview entrepreneurs and investors, visit exciting startups and give you a first look at the hottest technology.
We will meet face to face with the major players in our industry and have open conversations with them about their work, current projects, entrepreneurship and whatever else comes to mind!
Intruders TV Ireland is operated by Edgecast Media Ltd. If you would like to contact us with suggestions, comments, corrections, please email conn(at)intruders(dot)tv.
That’s excellent news, congrats to Conn and the Intruders team for getting this off the ground. Conn, you’ll have to come along to the it@cork conference this year to get some footage – the speaker list hasn’t been published but I can tell you it will blow your socks off!
Like my own first video podcast, Conn’s first interview is with (the normally shy and retiring – not!) Conor O’Neill. Am I imagining it or is Conor wearing the same Twitter jumper in both?
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Apologies if you came across this post on my PodLeaders.com site already but I posted an interview I did with Walter Higgins there last week and I know there are some readers of this blog not subscribed to PodLeaders so I thought I’d post it here too.
Walter’s company Sxoop Technologies are the creators od Pxn8 – an online photo editor (think Photoshop in a browser).
Here’s the interview:
There are direct download links on the PodLeaders post.
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The Technology Transfer Initiative, UCC, & Computer Science Department, UCC, are launching the Multimedia Innovation Network at UCC on Thursday, July 5th at 5pm.
The network is free to join and has as its aims to promote Cork as a centre of excellence in multimedia, to promote research between UCC and the Multimedia Industry, and also to establish connections in the Multimedia sector.
The keynote speaker at the launch event is Dr. Anil Kokaram, Senior Lecturer & Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. Anil is a prominent researcher, and renowned in the film industry, as illustrated by his recent award of a Technical Oscar for his work.
It ounds really interesting, I must try to make it along.
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In the last few days I have noticed a marked slow-down in the rate in which YouTube videos are downloading.
As far as I can see there are three possible explanations:
- YouTube is suddenly being swamped by traffic and can’t serve up videos as fast
- YouTube video file sizes have increased (if a new codec was deployed, for example) – unlikely as older videos are also coming down slowly
- My ISP (Eircom – no link on purpose!) has suddenly started throttling YouTube content -Â this is quite a strong possibility, I imagine.
I can certainly imagine Eircom wanting to slow down video consumption on their network so have any other Eircom users noticed this too, or is it just me.
On the other hand, if you are not an Eircom user and have also noticed a slow-down of video from YouTube in the last few days, leave a comment here too – it may be one of my first two guesses.
Or a fourth or fifth which I haven’t even thought about!
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I have just published my second video podcast – an interview with Jan Blanchard of touristr.
I got loads of great feedback on my first vidcast and I tried to take as much of it on board, as possible.
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As always, please feel free to leave feedback in the comments.
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Startup 2.0 concluded last night with the awards followed by good food, great conversations and a drink or two (ahem!).
If you haven’t already heard, the results were:
1st Sclipo
2nd 5min
3rd Properazzi
and joint 4th placed were Trivop and 11870.com.
All the finalists had fantastic offerings and choosing amongst them would have given Solomon a headache! I went out with the guys from 5min.com afterwards (amongst others) and had great fun with them. I love their application and think they are going to do really well with it.
One interesting observation was that four of the five finalists were either entirely video based or had a strong video element to their product.
All credit to Jose Antonio del Moral for running a superb event.
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