Web 2 Ireland

Company Name: eclayer.com (aka JSSL).
Location: Dublin, Ireland
URL: http://www.eclayer.com
Blog: http://www.eclayer.com/blog
Forum: http://www.eclayer.com/forum
Sector: Web-operating-platform
Founded: 1992
CEO: John Sheridan

Description: Eclayer is a new and unique technology that makes your computer become a virtual part of the web-site you are browsing. It allows web-sites to use the resources of your computer directly. This includes relational-database access, image creation and manipulation, and file creation and manipulation. It also supports mashing directly from the browser making it much easier for Web 2.0 site developers to work with APIs from Google, Yahoo, and others.

MySpace and Bebo users will love it because it makes these sites work much faster.

Key benefits for web-developers and site owners,

* Mashing (cross-site scripting) directly from browser
* Complete SQLite relational database directly from browser
* Complete ImageMagick library API directly from browser
* File management API directly from browser
* Faster, lower-bandwidth, bigger & better building blocks

Visit us now – we’re live!
download page

Post282 is an Irish site that lets you create your own private community for chatting, posting, RSS aggregation, photo/video sharing, and lots more.. It’s just getting going and it’s still in beta now, but there are almost 500 communities already …Naturally what makes it even better is that it’s 100% Irish!

Company Name: Infacta Ltd.
Location: Sligo, Ireland & Bellingham, WA, USA
URL: http://www.infacta.com
Blog: http://www.infacta.com/pub
Sector: Online Marketing
Founded: 1998
CEO: Jonathan Hill
Funding: N/A

Description: Infacta provides micro and small businesses the tools required to better market themselves and understand their customers online.

Our core products and services are:

• GroupMail, provides customers with the means to run cost effective email marketing and newsletter campaigns in-house. RSS & SMS support available with Fax support in beta.
• GroupMetrics, allows customers to track the effectiveness of their campaigns from email through to any given website objective.
• GroupSurveys, gives customers the ability to build detailed and powerful online surveys and polls in an AJAX environment and the means to analyse responses in a variety of ways using a suite of powerful reporting tools

Company Name: mySay.com
Location: Dublin, Ireland
URL: www.mysay.com
Sector: Communications
Founded: 2006
CEO: Ivan MacDonald
Funding: Undisclosed.
Key Investors: Enterprise Ireland, Trinity Venture Capital
Description: MySay lets you send expressive voice messages, greetings and invitations to groups of friends, direct to their telephone.

Company Name: PutPlace.com (aka Secantus Ltd).
Location: Dublin, Ireland
URL: http://putplace.com
Blog: http://joedrumgoole.com/blog (for now, expect a blog to appear on http://putplace.com/blog any internet second)
Sector: Digital Media
Founded: 2006
CEO: Joe Drumgoole
Funding: Founder funded to date

Description: PutPlace.com gives home users the capability to find, organise, secure and share their digital lives. Home users are generating vast amounts of new digital content every year and PutPlace aims to help them out by dealing with all the headaches associated with managing large amounts of cotent.

Next time you ask yourself,

• How do I share my flickr photos with smugmug users
• How do I publish new content automatically
• Where did I put last years holiday snaps
• How do I manage my 100GB of digital video

Take a trip over to PutPlace.com (opening soon!)

Name: Post282
Location: Dublin
URL: www.post282.com
Sector: Community Building Website
Founded: 2006
CEO: Robert O’Leary
Funding: N/A

Post282 lets you create your own private websites. Creating a site is free and very easy to do. Once you have signed up, you can create accounts for friends so that they can log in to the site you’ve created. On your site you will be able to create posts (including rich text and media posts), chat directly with other members of your community, connect to and read RSS feeds, customize your interface, and more. As the creator of the community you have administrative rights to edit or delete any post, and add and remove community members.

Post282 is still in Beta (like all good Web 2.0 applications), but feedback from our existing users is allowing us to constantly upgrade and improve. Currently planned are a make-over for the entry site to the system, and various mash-up style 3rd party service integration features.

Company Name: Sxoop Technologies Ltd.
Location: Cork, Ireland
URL: www.sxoop.com
Blog: sxoop.wordpress.com
Sector: Internet Development
Founded: 2005
CEO: Walter Higgins
Funding: Undisclosed.
Description: Sxoop builds applications for the web. It’s flagship product is Pixenate; A web-based photo editor which can be installed and customized for use on customers websites.

Company Name: Nooked
Location: Sligo, Ireland
URL: www.nooked.com
Sector: Internet & Services
Founded: 2004
CEO: Fergus Burns
Funding: Undisclosed.
Key Investors: Promoter, Angels, Enterprise Ireland, WIF
Description: Think there’s nothing new in marketing? Nooked gets your message out as an RSS feed to subscribers who actually want it – such as customers looking for good deals on hotel rooms or industry analysts looking to stay up to date. Nooked makes creating feeds a snap and offers details on who’s subscribing to them. Unlike with regular RSS feeds, each individual user’s response to the feed can be tracked.

Company Name: Argolon
Location: Bandon, Cork, Ireland
URL: argolon.com
Sector: Internet & Services
Founded: 2004
CEO: Conor O’Neill
Funding: N/A
Key Investors: Undisclosed Angel Investors
Description: We are building a system for the creation, aggregation, search and manipulation of specific distributed structured content.

Nooked made the cut in a recent Business2.0 piece on “Web 2.0 Around the World” piece – they are in good company – 23 companies in total are profiled

[from ITNorthwest blog]

Hopefully we will see more companies from this group next year.