Web 2 Ireland

Polldaddy Partners With Piczo – which will enable the popular online poll service for the 30m users of Piczo.

Polldaddy is growing very fast – capturing a lot of intelligent data – 2008 will be a great year for them

As the Season for goodwill approaches – and end of tax year, folk are turning attention to the tax bill.

BES opportunities in Web2Ireland land

The only one i know so far is Loudervoice. Loudervoice was recently selected as one of Europe’s hot web2.0 companies at the LeWeb3 conference in Paris.

Check out the details at Loudervoice BES Update

Other companies – drop web2ireland.editor a note via email

Cool Irish startup Swarmteams gets a great piece of coverage on well known blog

Net, Blogs and Rock’n'Roll: Swarmteams: capturing the buzz of trusted fans

Expect to hear more from Ken and his team over 2008

Techcrunch UK covers the story on MAXRoam securing high-street distribution with Maplins

Pat is on a roll – expect to hear big news soon from them.

Some great coverage from the PaddysValley trip.

Check out John Collins reports and this from Yahoo blog

Congratulations to all involved on PV trip

ReadWriteWeb podcast service speaks to the PaddysValley folks – Read/WriteTalk – Irish Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley

The annual XTech Conference is coming to Dublin from May 6th-9th 2008 and they are looking for proposals for presentations and tutorials.

The theme for this year's event is one close to my heart, The Web on the Move and it will focus on

the emerging portability of data, applications and identity on the internet. We will explore the benefits, issues, practicalities and fun of a web built on open standards, open source and commodity technology.

I'm looking forward to this one.

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They are halfway through their week in Silicon Valley and the Paddy's Valley crew are receiving an incredible welcome. It's not often that a bunch of start-ups get to meet and talk with the following in the space of three days:

• Robert Scoble
• Loic Le Meur
• Facebook
• SocialText
• Ning
• Marc Andreessen!
• Biz Stone

And they are not finished yet. Salim Ismail has invited them into the Yahoo Brickhouse and any of the Paddy's Valleyers can pitch to them tonight.

They may even have a soccer match against Facebook and Yahoo.

On Tuesday night, five of the start-ups selected by Enterprise Ireland for the EI/ITI VC Forum got to pitch to some local VCs and invited guests. You can see all of them in video action on the Paddy's Valley Blog. The winner of the night was Nubiq with their mobile web offerings. Here is their CEO Hélène Haughney's pitch:

I just know the PV guys and gals are going to pull a few more rabbits out of the hat before the week is over.

[UPDATE] And I wasn't wrong. Who did they meet yesterday? Jerry Yang! This trip blows any trade mission ever held completely out of the water. I'm in awe.

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