1time Push via Business on the web - derekorgan.com
1time’s online time tracking software has really picked up pace in the last few months with some great press from Germany, Spain and Ireland. I like to espcially thank some of the recent blog posts in the Tuesday Push iniciative.
Damien Mulley
- The one who organized this iniative.
Web 2.0 Ireland
David Kelly
Iarfhlaith Kelly - who made the brillant concept image above
Letrim Business Network
John Keyes
Michael Flanagan
Alexia Golez
Robin Blandford
Niall Larkin - Who durmmed up an old video clip
Alan O’Rourke
Joe Drumgoole
Pat Phelan
Gordon Murray
Darragh Curran
James Corbett - Who also made an excelent introductory screencast for 1time
1time itself has had a great new client view feature and we are working hard now on a mobile phone version and more advanced expense... Raising Venture Capital for Web 2.0 via Business on the web - derekorgan.com
I recently attended the Enterprise Ireland Web 2.0 event hosted in the Helix, DCU. Thankfully the 200 yards I had to travel from the office meant I didn’t get caught in much traffic.
Very interesting speakers in particular; Jeff Clavier, the very entertaining Marc Canter and Judy Gibbons.
The event was strongly represented by venture capital people with some great advice for anyone trying to raise money for the next big web 2.0 show stopper. I’ve sumized some of my notes below:
Have a sustained Differentiation i.e. the difference between your product and the next guy isn’t a feature they can have as part of there’s in a week or month.
Build end user value. Ask yourself what is the value of your software to the end user or ROI for enterprise 2.0 applications.... Potential Marketing opportunities for web2.0 in Asia? via Business on the web - derekorgan.com
Very interesting statistics were published on the World Internet Usage Statistics and Population. From this table it shows that only 15%! of the world uses the internet which is surprisingly low. When you consider Asia alone has over 50% of world’s population it starts to make more sense given their low adoption rate. This combined with Africa which has an expected low adoption rate of less than 3% really lowers the world average.
Taken from Read/Write Web -Worldwide Internet Penetration is just 15%
From a business perspective I can see a lot of business plans referencing to the strong growth in Asia and companies expanding their services and language versions to accommodate these countries. There appears to be an opportunity to focus on this market with a long term view to... UseAMap.com :: Tiny URL but for maps via Business on the web - derekorgan.com
Putplace, Easy online backup via Business on the web - derekorgan.com
Damien Mulley has started a great initiave called The Tuesday Push.
While this has prompted me to post about PutPlace (Online backup and storage), it is a service I’ve been meaning to post about for a while.
From the various hardware mishaps over the years, one thing that has struck me square in the nose is just how fragile digital information is. Any important document that you store in just one location can be lost forever and it is quite likely it will be if you leave it there long enough.
We can all make a conscious effort to copy our files daily to backup disks or USB drives but in the busy hectic world we live in this invariably doesn’t happen.
This is where PutPlace comes in. It offers two key features, it backups all my data and gives me access to this... Putplace, Easy online backup via Business on the web - derekorgan.com
Damien Mulley has started a great initiave called The Tuesday Push.
While this has prompted me to post about PutPlace (Online backup and storage), it is a service I’ve been meaning to post about for a while.
From the various hardware mishaps over the years, one thing that has struck me square in the nose is just how fragile digital information is. Any important document that you store in just one location can be lost forever and it is quite likely it will be if you leave it there long enough.
We can all make a conscious effort to copy our files daily to backup disks or USB drives but in the busy hectic world we live in this invariably doesn’t happen.
This is where PutPlace comes in. It offers two key features, it backups all my data and gives me access to this... Firefox 3 Party in Dublin via Copacetic
As avid users of Firefox, PutPlace is delighted to help sponsor the FireFox 3 Dublin launch party alongside Blacknight, Segala, Wubud and BT.
The venue is CineWorld on Parnell St.
Registration to attend is required. Over 100 people have already registered so make sure you get your name on the list before it’s closed.... How NOT to do Web 2.0 - No Cork is not near Drogheda via People and Technology
Web 2.0 is great - it allows users to get involved on your website.
Allthetopbananas.com shows not how to do it. Just be lazy and not bother to tell your website that Cork is not near Drogheda (for our non-Irish-based readers, they’re at opposite ends of the country, about a 4-5hr commute!).
Why should I bother to report to you that ‘Cork is not Drogheda’ if you haven’t done your basic research and looked at the map? Save your ‘wisdom of crowds’ stuff for items that you can’t find anywhere else.... Fergus Burns keynote at IWTC via Copacetic
Fergus has posted his keynote slides from the IWTC Conference on slideshare.
| View | Upload your own... How much did you pay for Radiohead In Rainbows? via People and Technology
Downloading the latest Radiohead (In Rainbows) Album now, not going to say (yet) if it any good or not. I’m more interested in how much did YOU pay for it when you were given the choice?
We paid Sterling 5.50 - Eur 7.95 according to Oanda Currency Convertor. Come on, tell us , how much did you pay for it?... OpenLaszlo - Cool Flash for Clunky Java people via People and Technology
Open Coffee in Dublin via Copacetic
The Next Web - Relevant Locations via Copacetic
Hiatus via tinnitus silence
Forgive the lack of posts. I have a social networking / virtual community of practice project on the go and I will not be writing here until after the middle of June. I'm busy with http colon backslash backslash crcp dot gcd dot iewhy have I suddenly gone secretive?What is...
Yahoo Pipes in 10 Easy Steps - sample for Iona Dublin via Technology in plain English
Yahoo Pipes allows you to take RSS Feeds (Website summaries) and combine , filter, sort and otherwise manipulate them according to what you need. This sample shows you how to do this, based on several feeds from the Iona website. The feeds we are going to combine are:
IONA Information, News and Events
Keep on top of the latest IONA news, events, class schedules and more
Debbie Moynihan’s blog
Open thoughts about open source, open standards, and lots of other random stuff.
Eric Newcomer’s blog
SOA, Software Standardization, Web Services, and Transactions
Oisín Hurley’s Weblog
SOA, Eclipse Tools, Open Source and SCA
Publicly Speaking
Rob Morton’s Weblog
IP Babble
William Henry’s Weblog
SOS
Services in OpenSource
Essence is Real
Kiyoshi Egawa’s... Yahoo Pipes - could do better via Technology in plain English
I’ve been playing with Yahoo’s latest toy - see Yahoo Pipes in 10 easy steps.
It’s a very good example of a Web 2 tool. While it is still in beta it already allows you to combine / filter / clone and edit RSS streams. (RSS = a summary of a website, offered by many sites, including this one - just look for the orange logo). In the same way that SQL queries a database, Pipes allows you to query Websites (or to be more precise RSS streams) for the information that you want.
Yahoo Pipes is worth checking out for the following reasons:
The user interface (finally) puts Gmail to shame. Just how do they generate the dynamic / curvy pipes linking the boxes?
It’s completely graphic. Users with at a ‘power user of Excel’ level can generate streams that would... Barcamp Presentation Summary - Enterprise Web 2.0 via Technology in plain English
A quick summary of the Barcamp talk on Enterprise Web 2
Until now, innovation has stopped at the corporate firewall, with most of the Web 2 activity taking place in the personal and consumer space. With blogs (slowly) coming to the attention of the business mainstream, what is next to be taken up? Why should large companies bother? How will they implement it, or is Enterprise Web 2 just a fancy name for stuff they are doing anyway? More importantly, will anybody make a living out of it?
Any thoughts / comments / suggestions on what people what like to see?... The last Rails For All mail you will ever get, maybe via Technology in plain English
The next OnDemand Service - User Account Management via Copacetic
Top Irish Web Apps - write up on Read-Write Web via Copacetic
Muzu.tv comes into the light via Copacetic
Cool Tool: whosoff.com via Copacetic
Sean O’Sullivan talks to Thomas Howe about MySay.com via Copacetic
Listen to Thomas Howe interviewing Sean O’Sullivan about mysay.com. MySay.com is a social telephony Web 2.0 application, think of it as twitter for voice....
And the winners of the Feedburner T-Shirts are.. via Technology in plain English
And the winners of the Feedburner T-Shirts (as chosen by our completely automated selection process) are …. at the bottom of this post.
In another shock scandal, Bernie Goldbach got disqualified by following a link from his own blog. He did send the most (25) commenters our way, and since we’re making this up as we go along, if anybody doesn’t take up their prize , I’ll pass one onto him.
Thanks to everybody who took part , and to everybody who posted the message on their blogs! (Bernie , Damian, Phil, Billy Leo and Podcasting Ireland.
Drum Roll please …. The winners are ….
Jonathan Brazil (from the Weblog of the same name) , as sent by Irish Eyes.
Frank , from BifSnif , as referred by AskDirect
Bernard from Running with Bulls, as sent by Irish... MySay.com at ETEL Launchpad via Copacetic
OpenPlains wins 2007 Docklands Innovation Park Award via Copacetic
What is Adobe Apollo? via Technology in plain English
What is Adobe Apollo? You know, Adobe , the people that give us the PDF reader.
Is Apollo the new Java for this Decade? Will it replace Atlas and .Net? Is Apollo an answer to problems we have in building web sites that all users can see? Will Apollo replace Ajax , Flash and plain vanilla HTML? Does it play well with Ruby and JRuby?
I don’t know. And neither does the Financial Times Tech Blog. But it does say
Adobe (and incidentally eBay) looks like it has a winner - if only the company can find a better way to explain what Apollo does.
I do know that Apollo may fix the pain of cross-platform web development. So, I’m over to the Adobe Labs site to find out more. Ajaxian has the demo. Mike Chambers (Adobe product development) has the slides. According to Mike:
Apollo is a... Dear Bruce Eckel : Hybrid Java, Google Web Toolkit and Adobe Flex via Technology in plain English
Dear Bruce,
First up, thanks for the book. Yes I’m saying thank-you about 8 years too late. ‘Thinking in Java‘ is what got me going in the language and in my mind is one of the best Java books written (sorry Tim). Giving it away free only cemented your reputation as the Bono of the Java world. OK, Bono without the Guitar, the Stetson and with a couple of overloaded constructors thrown in, but a man of stature nonetheless.
Secondly, I’ll forgive your flirtations with Python, on the basis that I’ve been having an affair myself with JRuby. I now understand the pain that you’ve been having at home, the endless repetitive arguments to get simple things done, and the temptation of a newer, younger, more flexible model.
So , I think you’re onto... Build your Web2 site quicker - Free Ruby Book via Technology in plain English
Ruby has a lot of buzz around it. The idiots version of what Ruby is:
It’s a programming language (like Java) that allows you to tell computers what to do.
Used with the Rails framework , it allows you to churn out your latest Web 2 site faster than you can pitch it to your friendly VC.
InfoQ has a good link to a Free Ruby Book that has just become available. The author of the book (Jeremy) blogs here.
We have two main reasons why we’re interested in Ruby:
Java is great for scalable , Enterprise systems used by thousands of people. Sometimes we just want something quick and dirty to try out an idea.
If your idea proves successful , you want a migration path (i.e. not to have to throw away all your original work). Ruby gives you this as the way it is organised means it is...