Web 2 Ireland

On Earth Day April 22nd – Edenbee released a new Facebook application whereby users set, adopt and share goals for a more sustainable life.

To assist Edenbee provides a product or service to assist them with that goal. If they follow through on suggestion Edenbee donates 50% of the transaction fee to an NGO of their choice. The NGO’s that we are promoting address the policy areas of Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Climate Change, Equality and Poverty

Edenbee are active in both UK and US with companies like The Ethical Superstore, Good Energy, Eco-tricity, Howies and many more signing up alongside major NGO’s such as WWF, Greenp International and Oxfam

You can access the facebook app at http://apps.facebook.com/edenbee

Some bits and bobs from around the Web2Ireland scene…

Joe survives at UTR – and gets great coveage for PutPlace in webware

Exceptional launches – Error tracking and managing for Rails folks and their apps

edenbee gets coverage on Mashable – “Edenbee or Not to Be? Climate Change Social Network Steps In To Help”

Firefox Party – Dublin – June 19th. All over the world, Mozilla will be celebrating the launch of Firefox 3 in late June. Mozilla is sending over lots of prizes/swag for us to give away on the night. The Irish need to live up to the great name we have for partying. Contact Paul Walsh for sponsorship opportunity – paul AT segala.com SPONSORS BY: BT, putplace (http://putplace.com) and Blacknight

Curry 2.0 dinner coming up in Dublin – more details to follow.

Wexford based ubcam launches – looks cool…

Polldaddy at 116 million + votes and counting – Lenny is building quite the database of value

Investment scene/activity @ web – no mention of Ireland…

Sean McGrath – XML and python expert – looking for some folks in Web2.0 space to work together..

Pixenate – plugins for wordpress and MT – Walter is building a great business in the photo editing space.

Downloadmusic – selling lots of songs via SMS – clever service with some great International plans