West Cork Enterprise Board contacted me last week to let me know about a discount offer they had received from the IIA for their client companies (and those of all CEBs). There was a further discount offered for being outside of Dublin too. Whilst the original price of €345 for non-members was just a bit [...]

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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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Ewan Spence slices through the usual fan-boy nonsense and looks forward to the Jobs keynote at MacWorld. Let him know what you think.
Whilst it’s nice to be able to flick photos with your index finger, I prefer a phone that has phone features like 3G, HSDPA, Bluetooth etc.
And why does no-one ever comment on the [...]

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The Enterprise Ireland and InterTradeIreland VC Forum pitching event in Silicon Valley on Tuesday looks to have been a great event. Five Irish web start-ups pitched to a panel of local VCs and an invited audience. You can see all the videos over at the Paddy’s Valley blog. The really interesting part for me was [...]

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I 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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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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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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It’s not often that people and technology come together so brilliantly as this morning’s Limerick OpenCoffee. I’ve just taken part in their regular session whilst sitting in a kitchen in Wexford.
Conn O Muineachain livestreamed the entire event using Ustream.tv so anyone could logon and see what was happening whilst a chat-channel allowed us to interact [...]

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On August 8th, it@cork are hosting a talk by Marcio Galli. He is a Firefox Developer and will talk on Web development and advanced applications with upcoming Mozilla Firefox 3. Given some of the extremely cool things that are coming with FF3, this is a must-attend event if you are involved in web technologies.

The presentation [...]

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The Irish Times has covered the latest press release about our Paddy’s Valley trip. The support of Enterprise Ireland in not just important but it is really getting noticed by the press. Finfacts also give us a mention and I was interviewed by Cork 103FM and ENN. There are still plenty of places left but [...]

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Paddy’s Valley has a definite date and now a hotel. And soon maybe even a t-shirt. We’ll set a closing date for signing up soon and spaces are limited so I encourage you to do so today!
If you know anyone in the Valley who you think would like to meet a bunch of Irish start-ups [...]

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Paul Walsh’s Curry 2.0 was held last night in Jaipur in Dublin and was stonkingly good. A great mix of people from different backgrounds spent the night talking about tech, business and naan.
I started badly by sitting down next to someone and asking them if they were with Microsoft, given that they were wearing a [...]

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We sent out this press release yesterday:

LouderVoice, a new kind of reviews web-site, is the only Irish company invited to present at the Essential Web 2007 conference in London on June 27th. This one-day event will showcase and celebrate Europe’s web innovators.
The purpose of the event is to provide a picture of the status and [...]

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Apologies for the lack of information forthcoming about Paddy’s Valley, the blame lays firmly at my door. Few quick updates:

The dates have been decided, December 2nd to December 9th
we now have an official blog. Please subscribe to the RSS feed
Damien has listed some of our ideas
Even if you signed up on the old wiki, please [...]

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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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Blog Polls - Take Our Poll

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We’re attending TheNextWeb Conference in Amsterdam on June 1st. It looks like it will be an awesome day and we are aiming to show off LouderVoice to a big audience. The organisers have put together an awards site and we’d really appreciate a vote for LouderVoice in the Beta & Stealth Category. Whilst you are [...]

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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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The first ShareIT session was held yesterday in UCC. Unfortunately I had to leave early but I did catch Jenny Kent’s and Krishna De’s presentations both of which were excellent and full of practical nuggets rather than generalities. This is a genuinely valuable initiative for those starting out in tech businesses. I highly recommend attending [...]

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The first ShareIT session is tomorrow. Remember, it is totally free and you’ll learn a bunch if you turn up. I’ve just finished writing my presentation on “Outsourcing - A Guide” and it’s a cracker
More info on the Business Advisory site.
Contact Damien on 086 825 8586 if you want to attend.

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