Web 2 Ireland

Lots of Gaming related activity happening in Ireland at the moment

Havok founders, Dr. Steven Collins and Hugh Reynolds are rumored to have signed multiple deals with large gaming platforms and publishing houses, with their startup new game technology, which is trading as Kore

Tribal City Interactive based in Galway are working on social games for both Facebook and Twitter

Jolt Online, recently acquired by Gamestop, are hiring like mad

Crowdstar, one of the largest social gaming companies on Facebook, have an operation in Ireland (codename: CSI) , headed up by Gavin Barrett

IDA Ireland announced over 100 jobs at Dublin based Gala Networks Europe

Daft announced recently their Polish Property web service – Daft.pl

The site is going live with about 60,000 properties across every major city and town in Poland. Approximately ten times larger than the Irish market, Poland has a population of 38 million.

This is also the first Daft site to run entirely on Amazon EC2 Cloud platform.

Eamonn Fallon, founder of Daft, over IM informed us that “The site auto-scales which is a pretty cool technology. Yesterday we went from 3 servers to 18 at the peak and we didn’t have to really worry about it.”

The Microsoft Developer Platform Group are holding an informal, celebratory, evening marking the commercial launch of Windows Azure.

At the event, you will briefly hear from Microsoft on what the Azure Services Platform is about and why it is relevant to market.

The evening will start and end with some drinks and snacks for attendees.

Date: 28th January, 2010

Where: The Westbury Hotel, Grafton Street, Dublin 2.

Time: 18:30 (18:00 Welcome time) 19.45 (21:00 allowing for afters)

Register here

Agenda

18:00-18:30 Canapés and Drinks on Arrival
18:30-19:00 Welcome and Introduction to Azure
19:00-19:15 Break
19:15-19.45 Customer Speakers: 'Developing Apps, and Going Live, on the Cloud'
19:45-21:00 Networking and Refreshments

Ammado are seeking donations for Haiti Earthquake Appeal

Please give what you can to help relieve the suffering of those affected.

Dial2Do, the Handsfree Assistant service that lets you get things done while you drive, recently attended the CES show in Las Vegas

Some highlights
- partnership with Enustech for a hands-free car kit called the drive'n’talk
- partnership with Bluetrek
- Media Coverage
Barron’s, Fox News and lots of others

The Dublin Web Summit is hosting an event at

Trinity College Dublin
on Thursday, February 04, 2010
from 5:30 PM – 11:30 PM – this includes a networking event

Chris Newmark (founder of Craigslist) & Matt Mullenweg (founder of WordPress) , who are regular keynotes at the world’s largest technology conferences, will be talking about the lessons & direct experiences in scaling their companies, which have had huge impacts on global commerce and communication.

Chris Horn will reflect on his experience building succesful global companies from Ireland. He will also touch on the broader issue of innovation and Ireland, as well as prospects & opportunities for Irish entrepreneurs over the coming decade.

Sign up for tickets here

Well known developer, Paul Campbell, working with Brian Flanagan have launched Ketchup

As per release notes from Paul

Ketchup is a web app for storing meeting notes.

It’s designed to be easy to use. We’ve purposely only designed the simplest features, from the outset. Over the next couple of months, the plan is to listen closely to feedback and shape the product into a powerful, useful and valuable tool.

In terms of philosophy, the app is designed around three principles:

“Do little, insanely well.”
Pay close attention to visual design and details.
“Not Saving Changes” … every detail is saved once it’s created or changed.

Happy New Year to everyone

Some community feedback needed…

1. What predictions do you see in 2010 for Web2Ireland community

2. What would you like to see on Web2Ireland.org ?

Please send us email, comments, etc.

Congratulations to Plink, who recently won the best reference app in the Android Developer Challenge for their PlinkArt application, and a prize of $100,000!

The Plink Art app is a visual search engine for art take a picture of a painting and the system recognises it and returns the history of the painting, info about the artist, etc. Right now it recognises tens of thousands of famous paintings.

We recently profiled PlinkArt on Web2Ireland.

Joe Drumgoole just presented Cloudsplit in the Startup Competition at Le Web in Paris. As always, Joe did a fantastic job.