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. MUZU™ TV - Dublin based startup just launches [Thanks Joe for note]. From their site “Your Music Network - Where bands, artists, festivals, venues, broadcasters, music magazines and more broadcast their music TV on the web.”

Techcrunch meetup - some updates from Mike Butcher on Thursday.

PutPlace gets some readwriteweb love - on their Public beta

Maxroam drives lower phone call prices - and gets ready to launch version2.0

TripPlanr from Jan and his team at TouristRepublic - get coverage on SiliconRepublic - in partnership with Deri - good example of co-operation with research institutes in Ireland.

Pitch Robin Klein - from TAG - see video with Loic

Interesting mobile social service - Locle - especially given latest m&a activity @ plazes and zyb. Rumour has it that a well know telecoms disruptor is an advisor.

SeedCorn Competition - has a record prize fund of €280,000 - which makes some other global startup competitions look small in comparison.

Events - Salesforce mashup/developer/platform event in Dublin - Tour De Force - June 30th

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Just saw over on Pat Phelan’s blog that MAXroam has saved their customers over a million dollars in roaming charges since they launched. That’s one hell of an achievement in nine months.

I still remember them blowing everyone away at TC40. They so should have won the grand prize there even if the billionaire Marc Andreessen didn’t understand why anyone would want to save money on roaming mobile charges

Now if only Pat could do something about roaming data, I’d be forced to marry him.

Pat Phelan has just announced TwitterFone in the past hour and it’s gone completely insane! 1500 signups in 42 minutes. 72 comments on TechCrunch in the blink of an eye.

What is it? It’s a way of sending messages to the Twitter micro-blogging service by calling a number and speaking. Your message is converted to text and then posted to Twitter. For all those times when you can’t SMS (like when you are driving) or it’s just more convenient to speak.

Not only is it a great application with a stunning design by Sabrina Dent but there are some critical start-up lessons to be learned from the development. A small set of businesses came together to build this in a few weeks for a tiny cost. Cubic Telecom + Dial2Do + Zong + VOX!

Amazing job Pat and well done to all involved in the build and launch!