9th of October 2008 by admin
The smart guys in Contrast have just announcedApp School 2008 – where they take one lucky idea to product in under 1 week.
They will pick an idea submitted by an Irish startup, charity, non-profit or individual and teach it how to be a fully-grown app. And, will cover 95% of the cost.
Great opportunity for some one…. sign up now…
8th of October 2008 by admin
My good friend, Susan Mernit, co-founder Peoples Software and ex-Yahoo Director/VP Netscape/AOL, sent a note in relation to the Knight News Challenge.
Its a US-based foundation giving away $5 million a year for grants in digital, open-source innovation
Some notes
The last day to submit applications for funding is November 1st.
Site is at www.newschallenge.org, with a peer mentoring site at garage.newschallenge.org.
Applications for the 2008-09 Knight News Challenge must follow three simple rules:
1. Use or create digital, open-source technology as the code base.
2. Serve the public interest.
3. Benefit one or more specific geographic communities
Surely we have some Irish startups which should apply…
7th of October 2008 by conor
The it@cork annual conference has just been announced. Its title is “GREEN IT: Reduce CO2, Raise Profits” and it’s on November 26 in the lovely Radisson SAS Hotel in Cork.
The line-up looks like an excellent mix with the focus being clearly on Green as it relates to IT and Business. I particularly like the profit angle given the turmoil the world is going through right now
The is an Early Bird Discount available Book on or before October 31 and it’s €250 for members, €350 for non members.
The agenda is as follows:
07.30 Heads of IT breakfast sponsored by Certification Europe
08.00 Arrival coffee & registration
08.45 Welcome from Donal Manning, Chairman, it@cork
08.55 SETTING THE SCENE George Lee, Economics Editor, RTE
09.35 – Green IT: Moving Beyond the 2% Solution, Douglas Neal, Research Fellow, Leading Edge Programme
10.05 – SMART2020: ICT and climate change. Opportunities or Threat? Chris Tuppen, Director Sustainable Development, BT
10.35 Q&A Moderated by Tom Raftery. Lead analyst, energy and sustainability practice, Redmonk
10.50 Coffee sponsored by Complete Telecom
11 20 – Virtual Worlds: making organizations greener, Pierre-Olivier Carles, Co-Chief Stonfield InWorld
11.40 – Measuring the energy footprint of everything on Earth, Gavin Starks, Director, AMEE
12.00 – The Electric Grid 2.0, Fergus Wheatly, General Manager, Allied Solar Ltd
12.20 – Q&A Moderated by Damien Mulley, Mulley Communications
12.35 LUNCH sponsored by Lenovo
13.45 – Situation normal, everything must change, Simon Wardley, Independent Consultant
14.35 The Business Challenges of the Future Low Carbon Economy, Niall Brady, Green Sigma Technical Development Manager, IBM
14. 55 Green IT @ STRATO, Rene Weinholtz, Executive Director for IT & Innovation, STRATO
15.15 Q&A Moderated by Dan Barry, Enterprise Ireland
15.30 Coffee Sponsored by Premiere Global Services
16.00 Green Computing – A leadership role, Tom Moriarty, EMEA Regulatory and Environmental Manager, DELL
16.30 Green ICT – How ICT will help deliver ESB's Sustainability Strategy, Padraig McManus, CEO, ESB
17.00 Q&A Moderated by Tom Raftery followed by drinks reception sponsored by Smart Telecom
After October 31st, the rate is €300 for members and €400 for non members.
See you there!
7th of October 2008 by admin
This week’s Tuesday Push is LouderVoice who have just launched a range of business services. If you like what they are doing, please blog about it. You might even do it in the form of a review that they can use on the site.
LouderVoice for Business
7th of October 2008 by conor
Trinity Entrepreneurial Society (TES) is running a “Speed Networking” event tomorrow in the Atrium in TCD at 2.45pm.
This is the penultimate leg of the global speed networking tour. The event is aimed at entrepreneurs, academics, students and all members of the business community. The speed networking tour is designed to unleash energy, share ideas and make connections fast.
The global speed networking tour has visited over 6 continents in the past 3 weeks including places such as Hong Kong, Mexico City, Toronto, Johannesburg, Botswana, Singapore, Santiago, Kuala Lumpur, Sydney and San Francisco. You can find out more on the site.
The event will be hosted by Oli Barrett an expert speed networker who has travelled around the world in the past few weeks.
Sounds like a lot of fun and handy for practicing the elevator pitch.
2nd of October 2008 by admin
In what is a huge boost for the Web2Ireland community, Facebook are setting up their International Headquarters in Ireland.
We had previously covered the proposed setup of Facebook Operations in Ireland.
Dublin will be the centre for Facebook's international operations and will provide a range of online technical, sales and operations support to Facebook's users and customers across EMEA region.
Great validation of the talent pool in Ireland – and congratulation to IDA Ireland folks for attracting Facebook to Ireland.
Facebook jobs in Ireland due are live – and hopefully we will see local collaborations like a Web2Ireland Facebook Developer Garage in the near future.
Update
- press release from Govt
1st of October 2008 by admin
Ryan Carson is hosting his excellent Future of Web Apps Expo next week in London [8-10 October 2008]
We have 1 free pass – and also a discount code [save 15%] for this event.
We’ve decided to run a little survey – to collect some feedback from the Web2Ireland Community.
We will draw a name from the folks who complete the survey – and also provide the discount code to all the participants.
Survey deadline is 5pm GMT Thursday 2nd October
