Web 2.0 Ireland

Some bits and bobs from around the Web2Ireland scene…

Joe survives at UTR - and gets great coveage for PutPlace in webware

Exceptional launches - Error tracking and managing for Rails folks and their apps

edenbee gets coverage on Mashable - “Edenbee or Not to Be? Climate Change Social Network Steps In To Help”

Firefox Party - Dublin - June 19th. All over the world, Mozilla will be celebrating the launch of Firefox 3 in late June. Mozilla is sending over lots of prizes/swag for us to give away on the night. The Irish need to live up to the great name we have for partying. Contact Paul Walsh for sponsorship opportunity - paul AT segala.com SPONSORS BY: BT, putplace (http://putplace.com) and Blacknight

Curry 2.0 dinner coming up in Dublin - more details to follow.

Wexford based ubcam launches - looks cool…

Polldaddy at 116 million + votes and counting - Lenny is building quite the database of value

Investment scene/activity @ web - no mention of Ireland…

Sean McGrath - XML and python expert - looking for some folks in Web2.0 space to work together..

Pixenate - plugins for wordpress and MT - Walter is building a great business in the photo editing space.

Downloadmusic - selling lots of songs via SMS - clever service with some great International plans

Loic Le Meur - founder and ceo of Seesmic - hangs out with Lenny from Polldaddy on Loic TV

To complement our lovely new design we thought it might be cool to get a logo to go with it too. This wouldn’t just be for the site but also for events etc.

David Lenehan from PollDaddy came up with the very smart idea on Twitter of running a competition with prizes. Within minutes we had several offers for those prizes. So we’d like to announce the competition now.

The rules are simple, just send us a sample of your logo(s) in one of the standard bitmap formats by Friday May 2nd to web2ireland DOT editor AT gmail DOT com. We will then publish a post showing them all and a poll allowing you to vote on them. The design with the most votes after one week wins!

The winner will not just get lots of publicity here and a permanent credit on the site but they will also win the following:

• One year of PollDaddy Pro sponsored by PollDaddy
• A copy of Microsoft Expression Studio sponsored by Microsoft Ireland
• A year of Blacknight VPS hosting sponsored by Blacknight Solutions

Many thanks to David, Martha, Clare and Michele for the brilliant prizes!