Web 2 Ireland

It’s not just Dolphin-friendly, it’s the perfect app for a specific problem. FineTuna lets you upload pics, annotate them with comments etc and then forward on to someone.

I’ve attempted to do similar using paint packages like Paint.net but all their features just get in the way.

FineTuna is ideal when you are either going through design revisions for a site or trying to highlight bugs or things you don’t like on a live site.

The lack of any requirement to sign-up is another bonus and the Firefox Extension makes it a no-brainer to use.

This isn’t just a tool for desingers and web-devs and their customers, it is also a superb customer-support tool. I know I’ll be using it a lot from now on.

If you like FineTuna, why not do your own (Wednesday) Push of it?

Walter and Ursula who run Sxoop Technologies have been in the image manipulation software biz for several years now. Their core offering, Pixenate, an online photo editor, is integrated on many sites worldwide. More recently they have built a bunch of fun and useful tools using Pixenate. The most recent, Twitter Mosaic, is actually making money on Twitter before Twitter themselves have figured out a business model!

Mosaic is just one of those beautifully simple forehead-slapping ideas. You tell it your Twitter username and it generates mugs, t-shirts, bags etc  with a mosaic of your followers on them for purchase on Zazzle. A damn sight more interesting than the “Maximising customer delight through six sigma” mug that your employer gave you as your Christmas bonus.

Get your twitter mosaic here.

There was a great push from the community this week and here are the posts we have found. If you have done a  push, make sure to follow @tuesdaypush on Twitter and let them know.

• Joe Scanlon
• David Kelly
• Niall Larkin
• Campbell Scott
• ClubW
• Derry O’Donnell
• John Keyes
• eWrite
• Ken McGuire
• Irish Blogs
• Pat Phelan
• Joe Drumgoole
• ManicMammy
• Anton Mannering
• Dave Concannon
• Topgold
• Keith Bohanna

If you are feeling rosemantic, don’t forget you can also heartify your Twitter avatar on Pixenate at the minute too!

The newly revamped Tuesday Push kicked off yesterday with IGOpeople and the number of posts was fantastic.

You can track the various posts and mentions via the Twitter Account. Here is a selection of the great coverage yesterday:

• Eirepreneur – Tuesday Push: IGOpeople really is going places
• David Kelly – Return of the Tuesday Push – IGOPeople
• ClubW – Tuesday Push – IGOpeople: Network for Real people
• Cool Sites – IGOPeople Putting A Slightly Different Spin On Social Networks
• Sxoop Journal – Tuesday Push: IGOPeople
• Clunky Flow – IGOPeople: Tuesday Push
• Touristr Blog – Tuesday Push
• Agiletech – Push on IGOpeople
• Thomas Brunkard – Consumer Relations, Online PR and IGO People
• Reverb Studios Blog – IGOPeople Irish Online Networking
• Digital Media Island – IGOpeople – Rounded Interaction for Organisations and People
• eWrite – Tuesday Push: IGO People from Campbell Scott
• coclarity – The Tuesday Push
• Jamie’s Weblog – Tuesday Push: IGOPeople
• Puddleducks Blog – Tuesday Push: IGOpeople – Networking for the Real World

This week’s Tuesday Push is LouderVoice who have just launched a range of business services. If you like what they are doing, please blog about it. You might even do it in the form of a review that they can use on the site.

LouderVoice for Business

This week’s Push is Cork-based eWrite Lite, a suite of tools built around a CMS to enable SMEs to get online cheaply and easily. If I hear of one more SME having to pay a web-designer every time they want the content on their site updated, I’m going to start naming and shaming. eWrite Lite is perfect for those many small companies out there who are paying through the nose to get simple sites developed and maintained.

Check it out and blog about your impressions of it.

As with Pix.ie, I’ve collected all the posts I’ve seen so far about Toddle over on delicious.com. Let me know if I’ve missed any.

Keep Stumbling and Digging the good uns folks!

I’ve collected all the posts I’ve seen so far about Pix.ie over on delicious.com (a joy to be finally able to type that properly). Let me know if I’ve missed any.

It looks like using StumbleUpon on the top-notch posts is highly effective as a traffic driver and I’d encourage you to Stumble the ones you really like.

Pix.ie is a beautiful photo-sharing site with many unique features which put it way ahead of the competition. Whether you are a cameraphone snapper like me or a pro, they have lots that’ll appeal to you. If you like what you see, why not join the push.

Joe Drumgoole let us know that the outcome of the Tuesday Push on PutPlace far exceeded expectation:

For us it increased our number of visitors on average four fold for the week in which we were pushed. This converted to double the previous weeks registrations. We weren’t running any other campaigns so I attribute that all to the Tuesday push….Basically one of the most cost effective marketing exercises we have done this year.

And your reason for not signing up for the push is?

The Tuesday Push on 1TIme started over Chez Mulley and spread like wildfire. Here are the reviews and posts that we’ve seen so far. Pop in a comment if we’ve missed yours.

So far only 5 companies have signed up for the push. There are some harsh words I could use here but I’ll simply ask the question; why wouldn’t you like coverage of your app and some honest feedback?

• Pureplay, Keith Bohanna
• David Kelly
• Robin Blandford
• Spoiltchild, Alan O’Rourke
• Iarfhlaith Kelly
• Clunky Flow, Niall Larkin
• Leitrim Business Network, Johnny Beirne
• Michael Flanagan
• Alexia Golez
• Eirepreneur, James Corbett
• Copacetic, Joe Drumgoole

Updated:

• Pat Phelan
• eWrite, Gordon Murray
• Darragh Curran