Archive for October, 2006

Firefox Party in Dublin

admin 21st of October 2006 by admin

All over the world, Mozilla is celebrating the launch of Firefox 2. Join the fun by attending the Firefox Ireland Party.

I’d like to thank Brian O’Malley, Ireland’s Web 2.0 community coordinator from Enterprise Ireland and Sam from TechCrunch UK for showing their support – thanks guys!

PLACES ARE LIMITED to 150 so register your interest now!

If you fancy raising your profile through sponsorship please get in touch.

Hope to see you there! :)

The Irish Youtube

admin 11th of October 2006 by admin

I could not resist. We all know the story of YouTube – great service, disruptive, funny, addictive and a huge exit from the founders/investors to Google.

The Irish Youtube you ask – a while back Channel6 – an Irish TV channel raised €14million from well known Irish vc’s [Note: this is more than YouTube raised]

What do you think are the chances of Channel6 investors getting back what Sequoia did….

EirePreneur: Enterprise Ireland video interview

admin 4th of October 2006 by admin

James points to an EirePreneur: Enterprise Ireland video interview with Loic LeMeur (Head of SixApart in Europe)

For some stats on EI check Annual report and strategy document

BarCampIreland – Congratulations….

admin 4th of October 2006 by admin

Congrats to Conor, Walter and Damien on organizing the 1st BarCampIreland event last Satuday – it was a resounding success, and the conversation is still flowing. The Webworks facility is awesome – we should have these all over the country. [See pics]

Next BarCampIreland will be in…… [fill the blanks]