Web 2.0 Ireland

The blog post title is enough to make one dream…

We’ve already covered this subject before - Time for api.gov.ie?

John has details on UK Government Moves Forward with Data Sharing, APIs, and Mashup Contest

In Ireland we have

- millions (overspent) spent on Reach project - Public Service Broker
- no national postcode system
- not to mention the walled garden mentally to data

Some suggestions for Govt folks

- engage with Irish development community
— check the following work done by folks in the community
—– planningbuddy from ElectricMill
—– PostCode system
—– Casualty Figures from Electric Mill
- engage folks like John Musser, JP Rangaswami
- publish in structured format - RSS/ATOM/etc [some free SEO...] [disclosure: my own company has tried... and failed with eGovt and rss - retailers get it]

Any ideas from the Web2Ireland community on how we can help our own Govt ?

Damien Mulley gets community like very few other people in the industry. His ideas are always worth listening to and, more importantly, worth acting on. He has just kicked off a real corker called The Tuesday Push. Every second Tuesday, a startup is selected from those who put themselves forward and lots of us blog about them on the same day.

It’s one of those simple but potentially incredibly powerful ways of getting us all noticed. There is nothing nefarious about it, no PPP in the background or Google gaming. Just write in an honest way about a new start-up every two weeks. The posts will be even more useful to everyone if they contain constructive criticism and ideas rather than puff-pieces.

We would encourage those who read but don’t write to Digg/Stumble/Delicious the posts they really like. And obviously if you are a startup, register your interest in being covered.

The first start-up to be covered is the brilliant PutPlace. I’ll be doing my review of it later over on Argolon. Damien has already done his. We’ll also do aggregated posts here on Web2Ireland with links to all the coverage.

If you don’t mind me pimping LouderVoice too much, you can also make use of us to help spread the word. Just add the tag “review” and the tag “rating=N” (where N is from 1-5) to your posts. If you then register your blog’s RSS feed as a “FlagTag” feed on LouderVoice, we’ll pick those posts up and they’ll get indexed very quickly as reviews on Google. If you don’t have/want a blog, just write the review directly on LV and we’ll link it to all the others.

This initiative will only work if the community gets behind it. So instead of thinking “what a good idea”, go review PutPlace, now!

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. MUZU™ TV - Dublin based startup just launches [Thanks Joe for note]. From their site “Your Music Network - Where bands, artists, festivals, venues, broadcasters, music magazines and more broadcast their music TV on the web.”

Techcrunch meetup - some updates from Mike Butcher on Thursday.

PutPlace gets some readwriteweb love - on their Public beta

Maxroam drives lower phone call prices - and gets ready to launch version2.0

TripPlanr from Jan and his team at TouristRepublic - get coverage on SiliconRepublic - in partnership with Deri - good example of co-operation with research institutes in Ireland.

Pitch Robin Klein - from TAG - see video with Loic

Interesting mobile social service - Locle - especially given latest m&a activity @ plazes and zyb. Rumour has it that a well know telecoms disruptor is an advisor.

SeedCorn Competition - has a record prize fund of €280,000 - which makes some other global startup competitions look small in comparison.

Events - Salesforce mashup/developer/platform event in Dublin - Tour De Force - June 30th

Follow us - We’re on twitter - http://twitter.com/web2ireland

Great initiative from Eircom on their Web Innovation Fund

No sign of white smoke from Eircom HQ on official winners.. but Web2Ireland community feel free to let us know who’s the bookies favourites. [leave comments]

Damien has a great post on Platforms: Interested in building apps on the Force.com platform? - which relates to the Salesforce.com event - Tour De Force

Also check out Bill de hÓra’s post on some of the technical smarts that Salesforce.com and Google used in their recent hookup.

Backup provider - PutPlace - has just announced open sign-up season. Check the The PutPlace Blog for details

PutPlace allows you to upload as much as you want during the beta - which is free. Sign Up - and help PutPlace build a great product - with feedback.

A quiet week in Web2Ireland land this week…

Official launch of Ammado - see announcement

Compatipals - interesting Dublin based startup - using social networks @ friendships. “CompatiPals helps you understand one of the most powerful and influential things in the world, relationships. Discover yourself, your friends, and the mystery of compatibility.”

Google Dublin - an insight on Silicon Republic

Touristr - cool new user interface - and some coverage in Irish Indo

Events

Salesforce mashup/developer/platform event in Dublin - Tour De Force - June 30th

Mike Butcher of Techcrunch coming to Dublin - event on June 26th - signup here

Silicon Ireland Event in Dublin on 26th June 2008

Firefox Party was a blast last week - over 200 people - with Curry2.0 dinner the night before.

Follow us - We’re on twitter - http://twitter.com/web2ireland - Target is 500 followers by end of July….

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Check out the
BarCampBelfast wiki - it should be a great event.

Folks seem to like these posts - so here’s some bits and bobs from around the Web2Ireland scene…

Web2Ireland branding to improve with new logo - Thanks to all submissions and votes - the Web2Ireland community voted to an entry from Spoiltchild.

Dial2Do announce deal with Jajah

Irish and the iPhone

Zignals launches

Irish connection at Skydeck

Salesforce mashup/developer/platform event in Dublin - Tour De Force - June 30th

Dial2Do and Feedhenry at Launch Silicon Valley 2008 - Dial2Do win award

Finetuna launches - coverage on Nextweb - another great service from Alan and his team at SpoiltChild

Joe is on a roll - 30million awaiting an Irish YCombinator - and Ireland’s Digital Future

Mike Butcher of Techcrunch coming to Dublin - event on June 26th - signup here

Robin Blandford startup Decisionforheroses taking shape

Best wishes to Tom Raftery and family - as they move to Spain - from all his friends at web2Ireland. Keep in touch Tom.

Irish VC’s to replace Irish banks - no widget companies or .com companies need apply

Ticket-Text - interesting Irish company - “ticket text is a new low cost ticketing agent that delivers tickets via text messages (SMS) and print-at-home e-tickets. Simply bring your SMS or print-at-home e-ticket to the venue, scan your ticket and you’re in!” - Ryanair is a customer.

Firefox Party reminder - June 19th - in Dublin

Bonus links…
Good article on “Your ad-supported Web 2.0 site is actually a B2B enterprise in disguise”

dont forget - we’re on twitter - http://twitter.com/web2ireland - Target is 500 followers by end of July….

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We should have announced this ages ago but we’re thrilled to reveal the winner of the recent logo competition. Alan O’Rourke from Spoiltchild Design pipped several others to the post with his entry. Well done Alan, we’ll arrange to get the prizes to you. We’ll now work with Alan to integrate the logo into the Web2I design. Thanks again to Microsoft Ireland, Blacknight Solutions and PollDaddy for sponsoring the prizes.