Jason and Mike have announced the TechCrunch20 conference and it has a wonderful twist - 20 startups get to present and it costs them nothing to do so, unlike many others. It’s being held on the West Coast in the Autumn Fall. Whether we get a slot or not I think this is shaping up [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2007
Our mention in The Sunday Tribune yesterday
January 29, 2007 – 9:15 am
Thanks to Damien for quoting me in The Tribune yesterday. I thought it was an excellent article both on BarCamp and on raising funds. I’d like to explain my quote a little more here. Basically it concerned the €175m the Irish government have given to a set of VCs here. The VCs have to raise [...]
Wordpress 2.1 and still no ATOM 1.0?
January 24, 2007 – 11:34 pm
I was very surprised to see ATOM 1.0 did not make it into Wordpress 2.1, especially considering I installed a third party implementation months ago (can’t remember from who at this stage) . Sam points the guys to plenty of implementations.
All feeds from LouderVoice will be ATOM 1.0.
UPDATE 1: I actually read this post [...]
What is LouderVoice?
January 24, 2007 – 11:04 pm
Finally the question is answered: LouderVoice is all about reviews but with a BIG difference.
Instead of expecting you to spend time and effort writing reviews for us, we’re about your reviews on your blog building your reputation.
We provide the tools that enable you to publish structured reviews to your blog (hReview for the [...]
WPMU tweak on WebFaction
January 24, 2007 – 3:21 pm
If you run any version of Wordpress on a WeFaction hosted account you’ll run into the problem of sendmail being disabled so none of the notification mails get sent out. The way around this is to install the wpPHPMailer plug-in which uses SMTP instead. To get around the catch-22 of needing it installed to get [...]
We’re hiring!
January 19, 2007 – 11:08 am
If you live and breathe web development, then head on over to the main company site to see what we are looking for.
Off to BarCamp Ireland South East on Saturday
January 18, 2007 – 3:17 pm
I’m heading over to the second Irish BarCamp in Waterford this Saturday. I currently don’t plan to give any talks as I have had zero time to prepare anything (darned start-ups!). I will be on one of the panels and I’ll be actively contributing to lots of the discussions (like Donncha’s).
If you spot me, do [...]
£5k buys me a lot of developer hours or gets me to five conferences
January 15, 2007 – 8:08 pm
I was excited for a very short period this evening when I spotted on Ryan Carson’s blog that there was an opportunity for web app startups to get on stage for 10 minutes in front of the entire audience of FOWA. There were only three spots left. I was just about to shoot off an [...]
Irish Blog Awards open for Nominations
January 12, 2007 – 8:51 am
Ah c’mon, no “Best Microformats Blog”? Or “Best use of the word Beta in a Blog”?
There are, however, categories for Best Business Blog and Best Newcomer……..
Head on over and vote for all your faves.
Technorati Tags: iba2007, Irish+Blog+Awards, Damien+Mulley
Beta1 Test Progress
January 7, 2007 – 4:28 pm
The past week has been very educational with the bugs and issues being reported by the Beta Testers. We actually went with Friends and Family, many of whom are non-technical to do the first round of testing. I really wanted to see how they interacted with the site. Whilst we gave instructions on use, they [...]
