Monthly Archives: November 2006

Well that was a surprise!

Sam Sethi over at TechCrunch UK&I has done a blog post about LouderVoice, saying
LouderVoice one to catch at Le Web 3
I’m blushing just writing it. There goes all our expectation setting out the window! We’re thrilled to get the coverage and I hope we can live up to it.
Due to the oddness of flight times [...]

Our alpha rocks!

After a short delay, we had our prototype Alpha walkthrough today and it really is a humdinger. It’s now at the “show it to someone and they’ll get it instantly” stage. Sure there are a few small bugs and it hasn’t had a Trinny and Susannah makeover for the design but it just feels right. [...]

A recommended vendors wiki or blog?

I had a chat yesterday with another Irish entrepreneur about some dev shops I had investigated. Afterwards I sent him on a list of outsourcing vendors that impressed me during my research (but I haven’t used). It struck me this morning that it might be useful to create some sort of wiki or group blog [...]

Five Startup Tips

Damien, he of 1000 ideas, all of them good, asked a bunch of us for our top 5 business tips. Here are mine re-published with some extra context. Nothing too deep, just solid practical stuff I’ve learned in 14 years of working in tech, many of those in start-ups.
Talk to as many people who can [...]

Small update - loudervoice.ie now working

Just a re-direct to loudervoice.com but no harm in having it there as most of the Alpha testers are likely to be Irish. Now to get the email harvester up and running.

Rapid Web Applications With TurboGears is now shipping

As I’ve said before, we are building our prototype using the TurboGears Web Application framework. Kevin Dangoor (the leader of the project), Mark Ramm and Gigi Sayfan have just released the first book about this great framework. It is currently the #20 tech book on Amazon. In addition to the paper copy, a Rough Cuts [...]

Future of Web Apps

Registration has just opened for the next Future of Web Apps conference in London on Feb 20-22. I’ve just signed up to attend. I should have PLENTY to talk about at that stage. Anyone else thinking of heading over from Ireland? It’s a great line-up of speakers including Mike Arrington, Bradley Horowitz, Tara Hunt and [...]

Oh, does that make us Web 3.0?

I just love buzzwords and acronyms. I’m still deeply disappointed that my Tim Bray derived PECK (People Contributed Experience and Knowledge) as a replacement for UGC never caught on. Now we have an attempt to get Web 3.0 used to describe what’s coming next.
There has been enormous reaction to John Markoff’s article in The [...]

But how early is too early?

At the moment I am wrestling with the idea of releasing very early. The prototype will have about 60% of what I view as the “full” functionality. It will have the core features of the service for the individual but will be missing the community features. The current plan is that we get the full [...]

Great idea over at TechCrunch UK & Ireland (TUKI?)

Mike Butcher has just written about Money Mondays which is a wonderful idea. In his words:
Each Monday for a month, starting on Monday 20th November, we’ll showcase, and publish contact details for, a web or mobile startup which has yet to secure formal funding. They will have to have either an application of their idea [...]

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