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Is YouTube’s freemium paywall a step too far for the social web?

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Has YouTube lost its way by introducing a paywall for some content?And why are we so uncomfortable with ads in our social networks? Ciaran Treacy has a look

Social Media

Bebo may have just shutdown

Darren McCarra10 years ago

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Bebo may have closed it service to the public indefinitely in the last few hours. The once ubiquitous social network has been in decline ever since its original founder Michael Birch sold the company to AOL in 2008 for $850 million.

Social Media

Analysis: Google’s own sites benefit the most from +1s but some rivals (Facebook) are gaining fast

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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What impact is Google's +1 button having on your search results? Have your early-adopter friends skewing your search results?

The tech Irish awards season opens for another year

Web

A noobie’s guide to surviving Ireland’s summits, expos, and awards

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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This winter is expected to be a cold one but doesn't mean it is going to be boring. If you...

Bebo founder Michael Birch with his wife Xochi

Web

Michael Birch, Liam Casey and Chris Horn confirmed to speak at October’s Dublin Web Summit

Darren McCarra11 years ago

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Joining the two high-profile speakers already announced for October's Web Summit, Jawed Karim and Eric Ly, are two of Ireland's tech community leaders, Chris Horn and Liam Casey, and Michael Birch, the man who founded Bebo and subsequently sold to AOL for $595m in 2008.

Twtter's Jack Dorsey on The Late Late Show

Business

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey talks entrepreneurship and Ireland

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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Ireland needs to more to encourage and support entrepreneurs, according to Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. Speaking on the Late Late Show Dorsey said that Ireland's technology and internet entrepreneurs need more support from the state, including possible legislative change, to compete internationally.

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It is the start of 2022, and with every new year comes the loft ambitions of new year’s resolutions.

If one of your resolutions is to spend less time on your phone, or looking at screens, then you are in the right place, because in this episode we will look at digital detoxes and how you can implement them.

To do this, we are speaking with Andrew Selepak, a Social Media Professor at the University of Florida.

In this episode we discuss what a digital detox is and what technology it usually involves, how a digital detox can be realistically implemented without it negatively impacting our work, or even social connections, and the parallels between digital detoxes and food diets.

Selepak shares why going cold turkey with a digital detox is unlikely to be successful, why vacations are a good setting to implement a partial digital detox, and why turning off notifications and removing social media apps is the best way to start a detox.

He also explains why our use of technology shouldn’t be seen necessarily as an addiction, like a drug, but a tool that needs to be the correct way.

Additionally Selepak shares how a non-self imposed detox from his phone during a trip in Ireland taught him the importance of disconnecting, and how many of us fall into the trap of taking numerous pictures on holiday, with the ambition of posting on social media, instead of experiencing the trip in the present moment.

And finally, we discuss the role meditation can play to help limit our time with technology.