When one of the most famous web design gurus on the planet, whose books we adore, says he likes something you’ve built, well it’s a damned nice feeling indeed.
So Dan Cederholm likes LouderTweets.

We’ve been getting LouderTweets from as far away as Japan and The Philippines. Keep them coming.
Just to give a sense of the variety [...]

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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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We announced LouderTweets recently, which are 140 character mini-reviews you can send to LouderVoice from Twitter without needing a LouderVoice account.
Last night we turned on LouderViesti which is the equivalent feature for the superb Jaiku. Jaiku is like Twitter but can do much much more. They are based in Finland and are adding great [...]

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After a few late nights we’re now ready to let you send reviews from Twitter to LouderVoice. We’re calling them LouderTweets and they are 140 character mini-reviews you can send using Web, SMS or IM via Twitter to LouderVoice.
An important point is that you don’t have to be a LouderVoice member to send LouderTweets [...]

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Tom Raftery has posted his first ever video podcast and I’m the interviewee. We spend quite a while talking about all the ins and outs of LouderVoice. I think Tom did a great job considering who he had to work with
Looking forward to seeing more Tom!

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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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Last Wednesday we quietly unveiled LouderVoice. If you want a reviews site which takes a fundamentally different approach to everyone else then you’ll like what we have built.
Bloggers who write reviews now have a site which is built around enabling them to publish reviews to blogs in a widely accepted format. Everyone else now [...]

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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 were chuffed to bits and tickled pink this morning to see that David Lenehan has done an article about Irish webapps on the very highly regarded Read/WriteWeb site and we got a mention!
Thanks guys.
He also profiled some of the older guys like Pigsback and newer ones like Pixenate, Putplace and Nooked and not forgetting [...]

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I was very open about what we’re up to in LouderVoice at BarcampIreland South East on Saturday and I’m pretty sure it was videoed so there is no point in remaining coy. We’ll update the main sign-up page with more information and I’ll blog it over at the LouderVoice blog later today.
Technorati Tags: loudervoice, argolon, [...]

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In one short year we’ve gone from building web-based datacenter management and planning tools for our customer’s customers to starting our own web application development and getting ready to launch it. If you’d asked me a year ago where we’d be today, I would probably have said “doing the same thing as now”. I love [...]

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I’m thrilled to announce that we’ve finally put up the email collector on the LouderVoice holding page. If you want to be part of the trials, please sign up there.
The plan at the moment is that we’ll be inviting a very small number of people we know into the Beta1 phase in the next [...]

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I went up to Dublin yesterday to meet with a director of one of the big investment and finance houses financial services companies (not a VC). We had a deeply interesting albeit very short meeting and I came out of it a bit depressed about the state of tech investment in general in Ireland.
I [...]

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And we’re very happy down here in Bandon despite the broadband horrors. At least it proves that LouderVoice is usable on a 5 kb/s connection. The long term mobile version may actually be doable now!

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I did a post on this over at the LouderVoice Blog. Interested in feedback.

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It is still very early days over at LouderVoice but I think the time is right to announce the blog and let people know bit by bit what we are up to. I doubt we’ll be as open as Ryan and Gillian were with BareNakedApp but if something is interesting or useful then we’ll blog [...]

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I know it’s a small thing but I’m really happy Sam is doing the rename. Did Fergus and Tom accost him at the launch party last week?
Let’s give him plenty of news from this side of the Irish sea!
Hopefully our new venture will have something he can write about in the coming months. I just [...]

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