Web 2 Ireland

Irish Times has details on a deal between Muzu.tv and Warner Music.

This follows the Muzu deal with with Universal

“The agreement enables the website to broadcast thousands of videos from Warner Music’s roster of acts which include artists such as Lily Allen, Green Day, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Metallica.

As part of the new deal, Warner Music and Muzu will share revenues generated by advertising through the site and its video player.”

Siliconrepublic has details on a new Industry led organization – Irish Internet Growth Alliance (IGA) which is “a new initiative aimed at helping Irish internet start-ups to navigate the unfortunate red-tape of Irish business and go global fast.”

This group has the support of Enterprise Ireland, the Irish Software Association, the Irish Internet Association and the Institute of International and European Affairs.

Colm Lyon, the founder and CEO of Realex Payments – and founder of the IGA will unveil IGA during his address at next week's IIA Congress in Dublin. Other notable people involved include Ray Nolan, founder of Hostelworld and Dylan Collins of Jolt Gaming

Most Web2Ireland companies operate as “lean startups”

Eric Ries has a great blog on Lean Startups – and operates workshops as part of an O’Reilly Master Class

Do check out this video

We do need to share resource in our lean ‘ecosystem’ – who is best to serve lean startups – Angels, VCs, Legal, PR firms, Accountants, Bankers, etc – please share your thoughts in the comments

Pat and the team at Maxroam / Cubic Telecom have just announced a deal with the international charity organisation, the Mission to Seafarers, according to the Irish Examiner

The service known as SeaRoam and will be made available to the 1.7 million seafarers worldwide at 250 ports.

After the first Facebook Garage Ireland – which was very successful we’re planning another one for June

A recent venturebeat article stated “Facebook platform developers could see $500M in revenue this year” and with over 200 million+ users worldwide – plenty of opportunities exist for Irish entrepreneurs.

We're putting the call out – for folks who want to do a quick talk on

- Facebook Application – do show and tell
- Facebook Connect
- Facebook APIs
- Marketing with Facebook

Let us know – by Sunday May 24th – if you want to participate

web2ireland DOT editor AT gmail DOT com

Stay tuned for details on date, venue, time, etc.

Ray Nolan, one of the founders of Hostelworld has launched his new venture – Worky.com

According to a recent piece in the SBPost - Worky is a 'hiring network' – aimed at disrupting the recruitment market.

Qualcomm Ventures, the strategic capital arm of Qualcomm, has unveiled its QPrize competition, which will award up to $550,000 to four startups from around the world.

The competition is open to startups with business plans related to wireless technology in areas that include consumer and cleantech.

Qualcomm Ventures will select four semi-finalists, from North America, Europe, China and India, to receive $100,000 each in convertible notes. Those startups will then compete for an additional $150,000 in convertible notes. The deadline for business plan submissions is July 31, 2009.

Irish Mobile advertising company Xiam was acquired by Qualcomm in March 2008 for approximately $32 million.

We’ve mentioned before the iQPrize – created by Dublin internet consultancy iQ Content.

Today they announced the panel of judges for its internet start-up competition, the iQ Prize. Global heavyweights Google, Microsoft and Facebook are all represented on the judging panel, alongside local internet heroes Daft, Statcounter and Loudervoice.

With 6 days to go to the deadline, 63 entries have already been submitted.

The judges are:

* Aodhan Cullen, founder & CEO, StatCounter

* Colm Long, Head of Online Operations (EMEA), Facebook

* Conor O'Neill, co-founder & CEO, LouderVoice

* Eamonn Fallon, co-founder & CEO, Daft.ie

* Gail Power, Senior Manager, Google

* Martha Rotter, Internet Evangelist, Microsoft

iQ Content Managing Director Morgan McKeagney will also sit on the panel, but in a non-executive capacity.

The iQ Prize is an open competition for the best business plan for an internet start-up, with a no-strings-attached grand prize of 10,000 euro. Potential applicants still have until May 12th (6 days and counting!) to send in a brief 5-page business plan to show that they have what it takes to turn their idea into a great online business.

Shortlisted applicants will then be asked to present their business plans in person to the judging panel. The winner will be announced at an event in Dublin in early July.

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Look and Taste have launched a cool iPhone application [Full version at £5.99 and a Free Lite version]

Check the video here

On Earth Day April 22nd – Edenbee released a new Facebook application whereby users set, adopt and share goals for a more sustainable life.

To assist Edenbee provides a product or service to assist them with that goal. If they follow through on suggestion Edenbee donates 50% of the transaction fee to an NGO of their choice. The NGO’s that we are promoting address the policy areas of Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Climate Change, Equality and Poverty

Edenbee are active in both UK and US with companies like The Ethical Superstore, Good Energy, Eco-tricity, Howies and many more signing up alongside major NGO’s such as WWF, Greenp International and Oxfam

You can access the facebook app at http://apps.facebook.com/edenbee