Jaiku Invites is a great initiative from Ciarán Rooney.  When Google bought Jaiku they shut down new user registrations. There are a lot of people out there who would love to join and take part in all the great discussions we have there, particularly around events like OpenCoffee and BarCamps. Luckily each existing member was [...]

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Alexia Golez is arranging a Blogger Dinner in Cork for Sunday the 2nd March on the weekend of the Blogtalk Conference and WebCamp. You can expect some really interesting visitors (and locals!) to be there. Please let Alexia know if you wish to attend over on her blog.

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James Corbett is building a map of Wifi Hotspots around the country. Whilst they can be free or non-free, I hope we can identify as many free ones as possible first. I’ve added the ones I know of in Cork and indicated whether they are publicly accessible locations or not.

If you know of any, please [...]

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I’m really pleased to see how well the Leitrim Business Network is taking off. Johnny Beirne from Leitrim CEB and the team are really pushing it forward. I love seeing them evangelise the opportunities presented by online networking through tools like LinkedIn and of course the site itself is a group blog.
it@cork has shown how [...]

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A little storm erupted this morning over the TechLudd initiative which was launched by some of those who went on the Paddy’s Valley trip to the USA. Paul Walsh from Segala considers it misguided and wonders why no attempt was made to reach out to existing networks in Ireland, particularly considering TechLudd is supposed to [...]

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This is such a great idea.
On November 1, 2007 it@cork will have their first ever Leader’s Awards. They want to recognise some of the leading companies and individuals in the community and have an evening of networking, reflection and celebration.
There are 4 categories:

Emerging Company Award - to recognise a leading company in early stage [...]

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OK here’s the deal.
On Thursday September 13th, an event called DemoBar is being held. This is a chance for 10 web startups to demo their product to an audience consisting of their peers, the press, Irish investors, UK investors, Enterprise Ireland, the Future of WebApps conference organisers and a bunch of other people.
Not only [...]

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Look at the lineup (form Web2Ireland.org blog):

Mashup University - Monday 10th/Tuesday 11th
Mashup Camp - Wednesday 12th/Thursday 13th
Paddy’s Valley Meet-up- Thursday 13th
DemoBar and FOWA Road trip - Thursday 13th
OpenCoffee - Friday 14th

The Mashup Camp and Uni really looks like a wonderful four days. Only €25 nominal sign-up to learn a ton of stuff. If you are [...]

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Aidan Finn just announced Galway OCC on Twitter. Upcoming.org page here. I’d been hoping for this one, I think it’ll be a big success. Looking forward to the reports. That plus BarCamp Galway are two great excuses for us to head up there.

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UPDATE 2: This is now on this Thursday evening (5th July), from 5pm to 8pm. Details can be found at Multimedia Innovation Network
UPDATE: This has been postponed until some time in July so please ignore the date listed below.
I was talking to Dave Murphy from UCC at yesterday’s Open Coffee and he mentioned the Cork [...]

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I recently had a great meeting with Paul Healy of the Rubicon Incubation Centre in CIT in Cork. This has been a runaway success since it opened a year ago and I wanted to find out more. The Centre is probably best know for the Genesis Enterprise Programme but actually offers a lot more than [...]

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This post should have been written over a week ago but I’m only finally getting the time now.
On Thursday 10th May, three of us from Cork Open Coffee (Walter Higgins, David Copithorne and myself) headed over to London Open Coffee. As someone who has never worked into the UK (The Netherlands and Germany being [...]

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Jan Blanchard has been building a great travel site called Touristr for quite a while. I did some beta testing for him a while back and the potential was obvious. With their latest open beta, they’ve really improved the look and navigation of the site.
In their own words:

TouristR allows you to save favorite flags onto [...]

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I did a short interview with Emma McNamara this afternoon for Radio 1. The overall theme of her piece was “The Economy” and as with other items in the series they took a regional focus which was Cork/Munster on this occasion.
I talked for far too long about the start-up scene down here, Open Coffee, LouderVoice, [...]

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The Startup 2.0 guys have launched a wiki to try and build a Europe-wide directory of web applications. Make sure to add your app. The Irish page is here.

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We did this press release this morning. Please forward to anyone you think might have an interest:
An ad-hoc group of Irish business people have decided to form their own delegation to tour Silicon Valley and create closer bonds with companies and people in the mecca of the computer world. The tour nicknamed “PaddysValley” will head [...]

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We had another good turnout this morning at Open Coffee and covered a lot of ground from technology companies not building good links with content companies to quite a long discussion about aims and metrics associated with Cork Open Coffee.
Haydn made some strong points about the fact that many web businesses are very heavily [...]

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We had the second Cork Open Coffee meet-up last Friday. As expected the numbers were down slightly but I was thrilled to see that over half the faces were new and we had some great additions to the attendee profile.
I had hoped when we kicked off OpenCoffee here that it would not just be [...]

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Head on down to Luigi Malone’s any time between 10 and 12 and there should be some of us there talking tech and business and maybe a little Heroes. Particularly interested in talking to people about Coworking possibilities today.

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