19th of November 2007 by Fergus Burns
Polldaddy get great coverage in techcrunch article
Richard also has great analysis on readwriteweb
Congratulations to Lenny and the team.
ps. when you see folks like blogger/twiiter founder Evan Williams using polldaddy - you know these guys will be successful.
14th of November 2007 by David Lenehan
Just a quick post to find out if anyone from Ireland is heading over to LeWeb 3 in Paris on the 11th and 12th of December?
I know nooked, PollDaddy and LouderVoice will be there. Are there any other Irish companies traveling over to this event?
12th of November 2007 by Fergus Burns
Online review service Loudervoice selected for start-up competition at prestigious LeWeb conference in France.
See
LouderVoice blog for more details
12th of November 2007 by Fergus Burns
The ISA’s new company of the year award went to Ammado according to this SBPost article.
“Ammado a company co-founded by serial entrepreneur Peter Conlon and Anna Kupka.
Ammado is developing a social networking site designed to connect not-for-profit organisations with people interested in supporting them.
The company has development offices in Dublin and overseas and is in a pilot phase before launching to the public at large.”
2nd of November 2007 by Fergus Burns
Eircom, the biggest ISP in Ireland are adopting web2.0 technologies into their online offerings.
Eircom - who were a recent sponsor of the Web2Ireland DemoBar - are engaging with a lot of Web2Ireland companies. A good example is the new online music store where they are using the MySay service - “tell your favourite Led Zep story!!”.
Mark Taylor and his team are doing a great job of engaging with the local web2.0 community and vendors.
Conor has more details on the Eircom Music Store Launch
22nd of October 2007 by Fergus Burns
Jan and his team rolled out improvements over at TouristR - a really cool travel2.0 service which is morphing into a “travel social network”
Blognation has a more detailed review - do check out the screencast on Touristr.
Travel is a very lucrative e-commerce vertical - as proven by the likes of lastminute.com, hostelworld.com, tripadvisor, etc. See this forrester presentation for some additional information on travel2.0.
17th of October 2007 by Fergus Burns
Based in Belfast, Swarmteams provides a Community Engagement Platform - which enables mobile groups to store their contact details on the Swarmteams server thus giving them the convenience of single click group messaging without the hassle of each group member having to try and maintain their own sets of group contacts.
check techcrunch coverage and comments from Stowe Boyd
17th of October 2007 by Fergus Burns
iFoods.tv - a new Web2.0 foodie site is changing the way people cook.
It could also be described as a ‘Facebook for Foodies’ - which is aimed at everyone interested in cooking – from outright beginners to proficient cooks.
Founded by Chef Niall Harbison - who started his career as a chef in Ireland’s premier restaurant, Peacock Alley, under the guidance of Michelin Star Chef Conrad Gallagher. Niall became the youngest Head Chef in Ireland, of a fine dining establishment, in 2001 when he took the reins at Lloyd’s Brasserie (aged 21) where he cooked for the likes of Victoria Beckham and Robbie Williams. Since then, Niall has continued to cater for the rich & famous as a private chef on both super yachts and in their mansions worldwide, cooking for Bill Gates’s 50th Birthday party, U2, Lance Armstrong and Mariah Carey.
Some other related points
* iFoods.tv was co-founded by Niall Harbsion and partners.
* The site officially launched on August 23, 2007.
* iFoods.tv currently contains 100 video tutorial recipes:
* iFoods will be constantly adding new videos with the long term view of having a huge resource of online video tutorials.
11th of October 2007 by Fergus Burns
Don Dodge has a great post on Web 2.0 = web app + 2 founders + 0 revenue
He covers typical business models
1. Freemium
2. Transactions
3. Subscriptions
4. Advertising
Great read.
11th of October 2007 by Fergus Burns
What do i name my business ? my product ? how do i get a quality domain name ?
Evert Bopp has a great post on What’s in a name? in relation to his startup - 802.eu
802.EU is a next generation mobile Internet & application provider. We have developed a captive portal solution for wireless hotspot/hotzone operators, municipal wireless network providers & Wisp’s.
The portal contains a number of modules that enables it to offer a range of web based services and applications. Think of VOIP (voice over Internet protocol), online backup, web based wordprocessing, spreadsheets, image manipulation, shared agendas etc. Additionally the portal application also contains modules for location based services such as location based advertising, geo-location services, tourism information and more.
Last but not least we have included a location based social networking module which will let mobile users network with other users within the same network.
