Damien Mulley

Blognation Ireland is now live and first post from Conor O’Neill gives a great roundup of Web 2.0 companies in Ireland. Congrats Conor.

A while back I posted that I was looking to do some profiles of tech companies. After emailing every Business Innovation Centre, every City and County Enterprise Board and sticking it on the blog, I got 17 replies. You’d think there’d be more people interested in that. Shame really. I’m not sure exactly what else I am meant to do to help get tech companies some attention but this seems to have failed a little. Still, the next time I hear tech companies bitch about lack of coverage and I know they got my email and didn’t bother filling in a simple form, you can imagine what I’ll say. One lovely “go to” person in one of the groups linked me to a fucking website and suggested I contact each one of her companies. Should I have also written their marketing plan?

Anyways, here are 17 of the companies so far who I will profile in the next while:

PutPlace
Pixenate
LouderVoice
Planware
Beecher Networks Ltd
iQ Content
Magnetic Time
Bigulo
Nubiq
Tourist Republic
Stealth Shield
iText
CREMe Software
Zimbie
Time Warden Ltd.
802.EU
Hosting 365

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Mashup Camp, Trinity College Dublin, September 12th and 13th.

Easter.

Global Map of Digital Inclusion.

Firefox plugin to turn your GMail into an online drive.

The Facebook datastore API.

Way back when, IBM were one of the first companies to encourage staff to use the web, then to blog and now to use virutal worlds. Each time they release guidelines and this is the one for virtual worlds.

Hugs. Or should that be *hugs*

Supermarket 2.0

According to PC live, ISME are encouraging companies to invade the privacy of job applicants by reading their blogs and facebook profiles. While not illegal, is this fair?

Be Kind, Rewind – New Gondry movie. Oh yes:

The Faint – Agenda Suicide:

Playing Elecy Piccy:

Alexia and Richard both have blog posts today which concentrate on the fact that ire should not be directed at Aer Lingus and the Transport Minister and some frank reassesments should occur on the abilities of Shannon and Limerick to attract business instead. Seriously, if a company decides to pull out, they might be jerks for impacting on the lives of a lot of people but why are we not seeing a collective reaction of “Fuck you, we don’t need you anyway, jerks” ? It is obvious to Aer Lingus that Belfast is more lucrative for them than Shannon, so why not change that? If Aer Lingus was the match that held up the whole house, then that is a MAJOR worry and as Alexia said, why the fuck should Aer Lingus be bribed to make them stay and the same offer not given to anyone else?

We do remember the days of Aer Lingus charging us 400 quid to the UK, right?

added some more Irish folks to my twitter feed list.

Ook

Colm Murphy.

Simon Free.

Enda Crowley.

John Kelly aka lowbrowculture.

Cliph.

Via Jim Carroll’s blog, Ronan Fitzgerald:

I am so sick of Arcade Fire gigs being our generations Vietnam.

Class.

Arcade Fire sold out already for Phoenix Park? Arghh. Karma that I have yet to get to one of their shows. 🙁

Google are finally announcing their online storage initiative. Though it seems to be uniting storage for their existing online applications and charging you to have additional space. A complete shock that Google will charge for storage. I thought they only liked getting money in via ad clicks?

From Wired

taking foods from Wheat Thins to Chips Ahoy and dividing them into individually wrapped units of 100 calories each.

This is because extensive scientific evidence shows that round numbers lead to weight loss. Eating an entire box of Cheese Nips is unquestionably unhealthy, unless it’s really easy to do math afterward. This is why people in countries that use the metric system — which is to say pretty much any country except the United States — are much slimmer.

Monty Python Trek:

Via Joël Céré – Lions attack buffalo, take baby buffalo, buffalo come back for revenge: