Web 2 Ireland

Companies are:

mysay, Loudervoice, Glowday, Nubiq, PutPlace, justroutes, pixenate, touristr, polldaddy and Lukulu.

Thanks to all the companies who applied – for those who missed out this time – we will have further DemoBar events in the near future.

DemoBar companies to turn up at Ely HQ by 6pm – with the Web2Ireland DemoBar event kicking off at 6.30pm.

Details on the pitchcamp will be announced later today.

IBC in Amsterdam is one of my favourite conferences in the way it combines technology and media. A contingent of Northern Irish companies are attending from tomorrow until the 11th under the umbrella of Crea8ivity.com. This is a site which itself exists to highlight the best of digital Northern Ireland for international buyers, commissioners, investors and developers.

I'm thrilled to see that they are not just exhibiting but also feeding news and video clips back to their site whilst they are there. They also plan to get reactions and comment from exhibitors and delegates. I'd love to see some live broadcasts from the event, particularly with those Northern Irish companies who have made major announcements there. Ustream and Kyte could be put to great use.

The digital media scene in the North looks like it is coming on strong and the Crea8ivity site is a smart way to get that message to a wider audience. If you are attending IBC, check them out at Stand 4.271e

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Conor has all the details on the Intruders.tv launch in Ireland.

Congratulations to Conn and his team at Edgecast Media for this hook-up.

We are also delighted that Intruders.tv Ireland are a media partner for Web2Ireland DemoBar – and no doubt we will see plenty of interviews from the forthcoming event in Dublin

A new Irish web2.0 startup – Ticketsolve – is a sponsor for the Web2Ireland DemoBar event.

TicketSolve is a self-service online ticketing company. TicketSolve allows venues and event promoters of any size to manage the full range of box office operations on the Web. All that is needed is Internet access and a browser, You can track sales progress and generate reports and have the ability to drive revenue through a multitude of cross selling, up selling and marketing opportunities. There is no software to buy and install, no special hardware required and no updates to worry about. As ticketsolve evolves and updates so does your ticketing system

Ticket buyers enjoy remarkable access to events and information, and very low fees. Gone are the days of customer frustration.

Thanks again to Ticketsolve for their sponsorship.

- Other sponsors welcome – please contact us

- Signup for event via facebook

Microsoft have stepped up to the plate and are the lead sponsor for the first Web2Ireland DemoBar.

Thanks to Clare and her team for the continued support to the Web2.0 scene in Ireland.

Please note we still have sponsorship opportunities available. Contact Us.

I'm absolutely delighted to report that Conn O Muineachain has just launched Intruders in Ireland. Conn is a wonderful bi-lingual podcaster and brilliant interviewer so the match is perfect. Intruders.TV, for those who are unfamiliar with them is a worldwide network of video blogs, each focused on technology and entrepreneurship in their area. I saw these guys in action at TheNextWeb in Amsterdam earlier in the summer and was highly impressed.

Conn's company Edgecast Media holds the Irish franchise for Intruders.TV which already covers UK, France and USA, and is planning to launch in Italy, Spain and Canada by the end of the year. He has already recorded his first set of interviews and I must warn you, I'm the first up on the site. Thanks Conn and Mike and apologies to blognation Belgium for not listing them in the interview!

Intruders is also a partner of blognation so I'm doubly pleased to see this launch happen. Conn really has a vision for both podcasting and video interviews and I'm looking forward to finally hearing and seeing all those great people in this business share their thoughts with a global audience. You can expect to find him at all the major web events in Ireland and at more OpenCoffees too.

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Comment posted by Conn O Muineachain
at 9/3/2007 7:58:32 PM

Thanks Conor – and especially for being our first interviewee! Technically we did record Walter before you, but we decided to throw you to the lions first!

Seriously, well done – and I'm looking forward to working with Blognation to help bring Irish technology to the world.

Comment posted by Damien Mulley Blog Archive Intruders.TV Ireland launches – Conn does it again
at 9/4/2007 1:56:17 AM

[] (til midnight last night) press release yesterday and I got a little laugh at seeing blog posts announcing the service at 12.01am. Nice to see bloggers obey embargoes to the letter of the []

Comment posted by Michael Flanagan Intruders.TV Ireland goes live
at 9/4/2007 6:47:42 AM

[] flurry of blog activity this morning signals the launch of Intruders.TV Ireland, the Irish leg of the website []

Pix.ie is a new photo-sharing site with an Irish focus, some smart features and a great name. It is too easy to pigeon-hole a site like this as Yet Another Flickr Clone but I think it has enough to stand out in a crowded market.

It is an unapologetically Irish site which will be very important to catch the eye of the ever increasing numbers here who use international sites or Irish-domained sites like PhotoBox.ie. One differentiator that they push is the fine grained access control. Flickr's awful binary approach to sharing has always been my biggest complaint about the site. Pix.ie allows you to define access based on various degrees of contact relationships and groupings.

Another particularly useful aspect of the site is photo aggregation so that pictures from multiple members can be combined into one collection for events like weddings etc. Again this gives far more fine-grained control over the collections than is possible with simple event specific tags.

I have to criticise Pix.ie in the same way that I do many photo sharing sites. I want the ability to invite people to view pictures without them having to be members of the site. This could be done using a private URL so that it is not secure but it is also not broadcast. I have too many relatives (particularly older ones) who have never signed up for a web-site and never will but have figured out how to get email and click on a link.

They have the usual tag exploration and social networking features which are must-haves on such a site. I found that aspect to be a lot easier to work with than Flickr. In general the site navigation required no thinking which will be crucial in getting late-adopters to start using Pix.ie regularly. The same is true of the photo uploading process which I found particularly easy.

A site which has just soft launched is not going to be a slick as Flickr but it's far superior to something like Canon Imagine and easily competes with the sharing features of PhotoBox. You can upload 500MB of photos per month and they say there is no overall storage limit. It is currently ad-supported but they are promising to provide Pro accounts in the future – something I would happily pay for. I can see Pix.ie becoming our family photo sharing site very soon.

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Comment posted by Donn
at 9/6/2007 7:04:57 AM

Thanks for the heads up on pix.ie, I had recently been looking for a good photo sharing / storage site. A while ago I signed up for a Photobucket account which was grand until I found out it had been bought by Rupert Murdoch which was not grand, I have no interest in anything associated with him.

I have never been fond of Flickr or the other countless popular sites. I must say I'm really liking pix.ie, it's got a nice clean design, no flashing crap or unnecessary clutter to distract / confuse you, it does exactly what it says on the tin.

Keep up the good work Marcus and I look forward to seeing how it develops and grows over the next while.

Comment posted by Marcus Mac Innes
at 9/4/2007 9:53:10 AM

Cheers for the mention Conor!

Yes you are quite right; on the invite and guest pass front we are definitely falling short. We've got changes planned to allow users to be able to invite people to view their albums directly and we'll throw in the old guest pass for good measure!

James, glad to be on board Although I've got to convince myself that the idea of me being able to take a whole week off away from the office isn't just wishful thinking!

Marcus

Comment posted by James Corbett
at 9/4/2007 5:54:39 AM

And it's great to see that Marcus has now signed up to the Paddy's Valley trip.

Blognation will be attending the DemoBar event.

The Irish Twittosphere grows daily and has been attracting users far outside the initial cabal of geeks. The performance and scaling issues of earlier in the summer have been forgiven and generally the site has been stable. However in the past week much more serious problems have started happening.

We are getting multiple reports of users seeing gaps of of between 4 and 12 hours in the updates from those they are following. Unlike the usual out-of-order messing that people seem to accept, these are black holes which are never re-filled. At the moment I've had no network updates for 4 hours and I'm in contact with two users who have had none for three days! The RSS feeds are similarly broken.

So far, Twitter has seemed resilient to user defection, I have to wonder how long that will continue. I would be quite happy to move completely to Jaiku if (and it's a big if) my network did too. Keep a close eye on all of those articles about social network portability.

Meanwhile, if you too are frustrated with the silence on Twitter, you can find me over on Jaiku where you'll also find several Irish specific channels.

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Comment posted by blognation UK Technology Blog Archive Twitters Latest Feature Is B[ol]locks
at 9/2/2007 10:02:37 AM

[] Having tried it, I am none the wiser. If you know how I am supposed to benefit from this feature please can you let me know? Instead of this pointless rubbish, I wish twitter would focus its recent investment on making its service more reliable. []

Comment posted by James Corbett
at 9/1/2007 11:48:09 AM

That really is the big if Conor and the reason I can't see why any social network should be in a rush to open up the social graph unless forced into a corner by the competition.

I've run a niche sports website for 9 years which is mainly based around a discussion forum. You might call it a Social Network 0.5. What we've learned in that time is that, as long as you don't completely drop the ball, a social network is amazingly resilient to mass migration. We know because we've had several threats of mutiny after, regrettably, being forced to ban a few members along the way. Though a few of those threats gather a reasonably large amount of support none succeeded because none of our competing communities had anything like the number of members or volume of user generated content. To revive a cliche from Web 1.0 we really did have first mover advantage.

I too would be more than happy to leave Twitter for good in favour of Jaiku. But unless 50+% of my contacts do at the same time I'm unlikely to do so.