March 3, 2008I spoke last week at the Irish Web Technologies Conference. My topic was “SMS, LBS and Social Networking” from the perspective of an enthusiastic punter and early adopter. I got a great response from the (albeit small) audience with particular interest shown in
Buying music by SMS on downloadmusic.ie
Live Video streaming from your phone on Qik
Geo-tagging [...]
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February 26, 2008It’s an incredibly busy week of events in Dublin and Cork in the next few days. The ones that we’ll be attending are:
xCellerate 2008 tomorrow - Half Day conference on raising funds and “bringing Silicon Valley to Ireland”
IWTC - Irish Web Technology Conference. This starts tonight and runs until Friday. Conor is presenting on “SMS, [...]
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February 5, 2008Alexia 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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February 4, 2008I’m very pleased to have been invited to speak at the Irish Web Technology Conference on 28th February in Dublin. My 75 minute session is about SMS, Location Based Services and Social Networking. I’ll be very much doing this as an eager punter and coming from the web side rather than from the mobile industry. [...]
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December 9, 2007I’ll be presenting LouderVoice at Le Web 3 on Tuesday at 2.30pm. We’re up against 29 other web start-ups from around Europe and I have 7 minutes to dazzle. Wish us luck!
You can get me on my normal mobile (+353-87-9790297) or my MAXRoam numbers:
+353-1-5262888
+44-208-8199686
+1-206-420-5964
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October 15, 2007I was sent information about a very meaty looking three day seminar organised by GPS Ireland in the NMCI facility of CIT in Ringaskiddy. It’s on from 22nd-24th October.
Day 1 is aboout Fundamentals of GPS/GNSS and is open to anyone interested in seeking conceptual and detailed explanations of GPS technology, operation, capabilities, applications and development [...]
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September 12, 2007Cross-posting from the LouderVoice Blog:
We are incredibly excited that an opportunity to attend TechCrunch40 in San Francisco next week has appeared. It is all due to the wonderful Pat Phelan of Cubic Telecom who offered a free ticket to a well deserving start-up. LouderVoice is that start-up and I’ll be there from Sunday until Wednesday [...]
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August 28, 2007OK 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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August 21, 2007Look 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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July 10, 2007Web 2.0 Expo is coming to Berlin from 5th-8th November and it is a serious opportunity for those involved in web development in Ireland to get noticed.
Jennifer Pahlka, one of the organisers, is coming to Cork on July 14th and Tom Raftery has arranged an OpenDrinks Event that evening for any Irish people interested in [...]
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June 29, 2007Essential Web 07
Fantastic day with a strong mix of investors and entrepreneurs. Some wonderful pitches and a killer opportunity for start-ups
We were thrilled [...]
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March 19, 2007I previously mentioned the ShareIT initiative by the Irish Small Business Advisory Group and the first session is on this coming Saturday in UCC. Put simply
ShareIT will offer free training by experienced business people who are experts in their respect areas to companies and individuals starting out in the world of IT. These training [...]
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March 6, 2007The good people of Carson Systems have made the recordings and presentations of the various speakers from FoWA London 2007 available for download. Even though I was there I’ve grabbed a bunch of them to listen to and read again as there are some real gems. If only other conference organisers were so generous!
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February 22, 2007I attended my first UK Geek Dinner last night after FoWA. Guests of honour were Tara Hunt and Chris Messina. I only chatted to Chris for a short while towards the end of the night and the bulk of the conversation was about BarCamp. I told him how important I thought BarCamps have been for [...]
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February 22, 2007Back at base now and didn’t get a chance yesterday to write about some of the other speakers. Overall Day 1 was more impressive than Day 2. The Open Mic slot was poor overall but Phil’s presentation was very entertaining. It was a pity he had so little time as I’m sure a Q&A afterwards [...]
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February 22, 2007Given the lack of free wireless at FoWA and the disastrous wireless at LeWeb3, it struck me yesterday that conferences are the ideal opportunity for FON to give people real hands-on experience of their routers.
Imagine if the guys had provided all the wifi for free yesterday? They could still use the logon screens so [...]
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February 21, 2007Ryan Carson - Carson Systems, Richard Moross - Moo, Mike Arrington - TechCrunch, Mike Butcher - Vecosys, Chris Messina - Citizen Agency, Saul Klein - Index Ventures, Max Jennings - eMomentum, Colin Donald - Futurescape, Tariq Krim - NetVibes.
Richard - Afraid of failure in Europe
Mike A - Stop talking and start doing, if we want [...]
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February 21, 2007Adobe pitch about Flex etc. Not my cup of tea.
Chris Wilson from the IE7 team. Excellent honest presentation on why they lost their way with IE. Mentioned microformats so my ears pricked up. RSS in IE7 - he’s very excited by this. I really think it’ll push the uptake of using RSS. Chris just went [...]
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February 21, 2007It’s often said about conferences that you don’t go for the speakers, you go for the networking. However, yesterday at FoWA had some of the finest presentations I have seen in the past twelve months. I ended the day buzzing with ideas for LouderVoice. Sure there was some misfires but overall Ryan had a very [...]
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