Web 2 Ireland

Dublin based Newbay – launches LifeCache – which Enables Carriers to Provide Aggregated Social Networking Experience and Allows Subscribers to Easily View and Manage Multiple Communities in a Single Feed

The LifeCache Solution uniquely provides users with an aggregated mobile Social Networking experience. It presents popular information from multiple online communities including Facebook, Bebo AOL, YouTube and MySpace in a single feed, allowing subscribers to instantly engage with friends and family across a host of third party sites.

Check out the press release

Maxroam launches V2 – with its MaxRoam service = on its 12 months anniversary – Congratulations to Pat and his team

Some details from Pat’s blog

12 months ago today we launched MAXroam at TC40, today in honour of that event we launch MAXroam V2
So what's new?
Firstly and most importantly
Data roaming from 0.005/kb
USA Roaming from €0.39 per minute
These are two huge milestones for us, USA as it the most visited country by global cellular customers and Data as its the last frontier for the rip-off operators.
* New, more user friendly design
* Improved online store allowing you to buy more than one SIM per order
* New videos guides to help you use MAXroam better
* New blog
* More options for airtime amounts with 3DSecure and Verify By Visa I don't see any issues
* Improved Call Billing
* Auto Top Up Never run out of credit, set a minimum level of credit and top up by a specified amount
* Data from 0.005/kb
* USA Roaming from €0.39 per minute
* Coverage now in 175 countries with over 450 partner carriers

On this weekend – check it out – looks like a great event CreativeCamp Belfast

Justin has the details on the upcoming AWS event in Dublin's Digital Hub

Tuesday 16th September 2008 at 7pm, The Digital Exchange Auditorium, Crane Street, Dublin 8

Maps and directions to the venue are here. Refreshments will be served.

All welcome – but places are limited, so please sign-up by mailing aws-dublin-event at amazon.com before Thursday 11th September.

I’ve worked in a few large orgs and one of the most annoying things to deal with was room booking. Heck, in one large enterprise it seemed to be the main job of multiple admin people. So bookmeetingroom.com is something that appeals to me greatly.

A nice simple SaaS that fills a need. It was developed by Active Online in Dublin. I think they have a winner on their hands.

Crewger is an organisation dedicated to the advancement of the Irish film community by facilitating the production, promotion and exhibition of original content by film-makers of all ages and backgrounds working in Ireland today.

With all the activity @ Film Making in Ireland [The Commitments please…] – Crewger is an excellent resource for the Film Industry community in Ireland.

Damien has a more in-depth review

Luzern Solutions an online electronics refurbisher and reseller – just announced a €2.5 million investment by Delta Partners

Karlin Lillington has a piece in today’s Irish Times on the company and the funding.

“The low-key Dublin company, which works with major vendors such as Epson, Creative, Palm, Fujitsu Siemens and Philips, takes in product returns as well as excess stock, repairs and refurbishes if necessary, and sells the items on to consumers via online marketplaces like eBay.”

This is one of the first investments from the new 'Delta Equity Fund III' of €100m

Competition is _always_ a good thing and I’m excited to see the launch of the Irish Web Awards by Damien Mulley. The existing events in Ireland have served a particular niche for several years but there is a rich range of sites out there that never get a look-in, mainly by virtue of cost, lack of mainstream profile and perhaps because they are not commercial.

Nominations will open soon and I already have a bunch of names in my head for the various categories. The event is on October 11th in the Radisson SAS Dublin. Hopefully we’ll see plenty of nominations made by all those across the road in UCD.

Sponsorship slots are still available with the anchor sponsor being Moviestar.ie

Apologies – post is a little late.send on any news tips to us at web2ireland.editor AT gmail.com

This week's Tuesday Push is 1time – see list of coverage
IETF Meeting in Dublin
Three Weeks left to apply to SeedCamp
Barcamps – Cork
Startup Ideas – from Paul Graham
Building your webapp in the cloud

Other bits of news
Muzu.tv on techcrunch
iPhone app for Irish Rail
Social network for horse betting
Roomex hitting big targets

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Paul Graham – author of Hackers and Painters – and the man behind Y Combinator shares his thoughts in this post.

We don’t like to sit on these ideas, though, because we really want people to work on them. So we’re trying something new: we’re going to list some of the ideas we’ve been waiting to see, but only describe them in general terms. It may be that recipes for ideas are the most useful form anyway, because imaginative people will take them in directions we didn’t anticipate.

The full list…
1. A cure for the disease of which the RIAA is a symptom.
2. Simplified browsing.
3. New news.
4. Outsourced IT.
5. Enterprise software 2.0.
6. More variants of CRM.
7. Something your company needs that doesn’t exist.
8. Dating.
9. Photo/video sharing services.
10. Auctions.
11. Web Office apps.
12. Fix advertising.
13. Online learning.
14. Tools for measurement.
15. Off the shelf security.
16. A form of search that depends on design.
17. New payment methods.
18. The WebOS.
19. Application and/or data hosting.
20. Shopping guides.
21. Finance software for individuals and small businesses.
22. A web-based Excel/database hybrid.
23. More open alternatives to Wikipedia.
24. A buffer against bad customer service.
25. A Craigslist competitor.
26. Better video chat.
27. Hardware/software hybrids.
28. Fixing email overload.
29. Easy site builders for specific markets.
30. Startups for startups.

I know a few web2ireland startups are tackling some of these ideas – would love to do a follow up post to categorize those companies – please let us know what “number” you fall under.