Web 2 Ireland

Since the much enjoyed TechCrunch UK launch party last week, word suggests that with the arrival of Mike Butcher (writes for Irish Times on technology) on-board, the site will change to TechCrunch UK & Ireland this week.

Our little tri-colour will be flying up there with the US, UK & Japan on the web 2.0 scene. A good achievement.

Judy Gibbons of Accel, mentioned this at the web2Ireland event – where “On-line meets off-line.”

A great example was launched today – moo.com

The Accelerator Group (TAG): On-line meets off-line.

Upcoming event in Seattleblog.mattgoyer.com Startupalooza – Time to leave MSFT/AMZN/GOOG

Will we see one of these in Ireland within 12 months ? Time for folks to leave the Irish AGILE AMY

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!

Then ad:tech London – The UK’s Premier interactive Marketing Event is worth a visit.

27/28th September, 2006 – Olympia, London

Please leave comments if you’re travelling over for this event.

Following up from a recent 3i event on web2.0, where Daniel Waterhouse was one of the principal organizers.

“The Internet revolution isn’t finished yet. The first wave of web technologies – Web 1.0 – revolutionised existing forms of trade and communications. Web 2.0 is set to revolutionise the web itself, creating entirely new channels of business and social interaction. Our recent i-Sight web 2.0 event, brought to light many insights into this new revolution…”

See report here which contains great commentary from Yahoo, Lastminute, Fotolog and others.

Other information available here

Just miss the date cutoff

alarm:clock euro: BW Seek’s Europe’s Best Entrepreneurs Under 25. Archives

Best of luck to Sam Sethi and Mike Arrington with TechCrunch UK.

Gartner are making recommendations to financial institutions to implement web2.0 sytle apps in the workplace to foster closer group working and cross-departmental communication. The article points to the use of RSS in Dresdner Kleinwort and UBS.

Paul Graham has compiled a great post on How to Present to Investors

Loved this….

“Recently a VC who came to speak at Y Combinator talked about a company he just invested in. He said their business model was wrong and would probably change three times before they got it right. The founders were experienced guys who’d done startups before and who’d just succeeded in getting millions from one of the top VC firms, and even their business model was crap. (And yet he invested anyway, because he expected it to be crap at this stage.)”