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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I’m still buzzing over the fact that the blognation Ireland site has gone live. We’ve already made it to the front page of Techmeme!
As I said in the opening post:

blognation Ireland launches today to bring you all the latest news from the world of Web2.0 and mobile in Ireland. 2007 is the year when activity [...]

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Web 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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I’ve been thinking recently about Nokia and my general feeling is that they are missing many simple opportunities to retain leadership in mobile development.
Apart from one crappy Panasonic and a dog-slow Sony-Ericcson T610, I’ve always used Nokia phones. They have been solid workhorses with just the right combination of features for me. Until last year, [...]

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At the Essential Web conference last week Saul Klein announced SeedCamp. This is an incredibly important initiative that will help grow the spirit of entrepreneurship across Europe. It basically takes a YCombinator type model and implements it here.
For those of you who don’t know, YCombinator is hugely successful project of Paul Graham in the [...]

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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 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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Not just because it is a brilliant product but also because Lenny, Jonathan and the guys have shown that small Irish technology companies can have global reach!
These guys pushed out 14 million polls last month and over half of them were non-English-language.
Vote early and often.

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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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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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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 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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Haydn has offered up some quite controversial opinions on where many Irish web companies should put their energies and also what the BarCampDublin focus should be. It’s something I’d like to see argued from both points of view so please head over to Mediangler and offer your thoughts.

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The Nooked blog is back in business and it’s with one zinger of a post. I cannot wait to see this stuff in the wild! RSS = Really Simple Shopping - best re-use of an acronym ever.

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The 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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Richard Hearne has made a great offer to all nominees in the Irish Blog Awards. He will do a short free SEO analysis of each of our blogs if we are interested.
I don’t think I need or want it on my personal blog as I have tons of incoming traffic on that site due to [...]

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I’ve followed a lot of the happenings with OpenID over the past nine months or so. I signed up to a few of the providers (Verisignlabs and MyOpenID) and I used it successfully to log on to Zooomr.
Two announcements caught my eye since yesterday. First Microsoft announced they are going to support it - [...]

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They’ve just done an overview of all the online Photo Editors out there and once again PXN8 gets a very favourable mention. Walter is a shining example of what a tiny team with a great developer and a very strong commercial instinct can achieve. Everything to date has been entirely self-funded and the application just [...]

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After some hand-holding from Ivan, I got Snipperoo working on my personal blog. The basic misunderstanding I had was that I thought all the widgets shown in the help screens were pre-existing ones I could add to my panel with one click whereas in fact you have to create each one by hand. This [...]

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