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Re: Beta Services and Your Email Address

Conor O'Neill — Tue, 08 May 2007 07:02:22 -0000

Apologies for our sign-up process, we're aiming to have OpenID enabled for both the main site and the blog site very soon.

Conor

Re: Google Reader gets better

Conor O'Neill — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:01:44 -0000

Finally. That was the one thing that drove me up the wall.

Re: Top Gear is back

Conor O'Neill — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:15:35 -0000

I have the Sky+ set and ready to go!

Re: Review of LouderVoice

Conor O'Neill — Wed, 02 May 2007 10:51:48 -0000

Thanks for the kind words Paul. We'll get those plug-ins out pronto!

Re: WordPress OpenSocial Plug-in?

Conor O'Neill — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:30:34 -0000

I asked Donncha if they are building this in Automattic. No reply :-)

Re: Welcome to Earth

Conor O'Neill — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:03:54 -0000

Wonderful news. Congratulations to you both. Enjoy every minute.

Re: Reviews by SMS: LouderVoice

Conor O'Neill — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:19:34 -0000

Thanks for the mention Luca. I agree completely with all your feedback and we'll be adding those features in January.

We just enabled formal support for collection of reviews from Jaiku and Twitter yesterday too. They use the same review format as SMS.

Re: Ireland Inc. Let’s just do it! - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Conor O'Neill — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:36:03 -0000

Include me in.

Re: Is Enterprise Ireland and the ISA corrupt? - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Conor O'Neill — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:38:34 -0000

I wasn't given any information on this. I believe EI do it by invitation only. You can't even register your interest in attending.

Re: Why TechLudd should stop before it starts - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Conor O'Neill — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:13:16 -0000

I'm always happy to support any initiative that helps the web or business community in any way. Some of them have worked, some haven't, all were worthwhile to attempt.

I would never claim to be a great networker but I just cannot support something which uses phrases like "demobar-style event" when the organisers never even had the manners to contacted the people (no, I'm not one of them) who ran the first wildly successful demobar event. This is networking 101.

Unfortunately despite the great intentions, TechLudd looks like it may factionalise the community rather than be a useful complementary addition to what is going on already.

Re: Why TechLudd should stop before it starts - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Conor O'Neill — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 08:10:19 -0000

Marcus I love the sound of your discussion style meetup.

No-one needs permission to do anything but we all live in the same community so communications and networking (no not Facebook invites) are critical.

But when someone announces an event which is an almost carbon copy of the one run by Web2Ireland without making any contact whatsoever (and given the last part of your comment) then expecting everyone to just line in behind you is unrealistic.

If anyone has any issue with Web2Ireland, maybe they should voice it and try to improve it rather than snubbing those who put huge time and effort into helping the community.

Re: Why TechLudd should stop before it starts - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Conor O'Neill — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 08:34:22 -0000

Superb idea Marcus, I'd love to see the three perspectives - the startups, the VC and the Press.

And maybe even *cough*, EI :-)

Perhaps the first one could be used to enable to community to voice what they'd like to see in general with networking in Ireland.

Re: Why TechLudd should stop before it starts - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Conor O'Neill — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 06:44:55 -0000

As long as the curry is good :-)

Re: Lets create the Ireland Inc. brand and stop talking about it - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Conor O'Neill — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:32:52 -0000

Sounds good. There is a lot of knowledge out there about what works and what doesn't and it would be fantastic to share. I'd like to be involved in the meetup if possible.

If you are limiting to 15 then perhaps the criteria should be that attendees have organised some sort of event before or at the very least have one coming up?

Re: Cork and Dublin, here we come - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Conor O'Neill — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:10:44 -0000

Brian Caulfield is starting to look suspiciously like Joe Drumgoole :-)

Re: Cork and Dublin, here we come - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Conor O'Neill — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:28:07 -0000

We're discussing nosh locations here: http://conoro.jaiku.com/presence/22711496

Re: New Irish Industry Association for Digital Media - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Conor O'Neill — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:30:35 -0000

Include me in, should be a really interesting night.

Re: The Web Mission for UK entrepreneurs - Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Conor O'Neill — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:01:23 -0000

Hi Paul, I helped with some of the organising but sadly wasn't able to go on the trip. Kicks self hard.

Re: LouderVoice: Location-based business reviews for Android

Conor O'Neill — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:22:50 -0000

Thanks for the great mention! We're in the same boat over here re Android and none of the operators have even announced a launch date yet.

Re: 2007/06/15/loudertweets/

Conor O'Neill — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:28:26 -0000

Thanks for the coverage Kristen. We want to provide as many ways as possible for people to write reviews so that they can be found.

But the critical difference with us is that we always point to the source. We are not trying to silo anyone's opinions, knowledge or expertise, we're trying to give them a bigger audience.

All of those who have tried LouderTweets so far have been surprised by much detail you can fit in a 140-character review!

Just add "review" as a friend and send a review like so:

@review 5 Mashable web-site. The best social networking news site out there.

So that's @review RatingOutOf5 ItemName. Review text

Re: 2007/06/15/loudertweets/

Conor O'Neill — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 06:48:42 -0000

Of course, I forgot to mention that this is very much just step 1 for our mini-reviews in general.

We thought we'd get the basic thing out there and see what the feedback was. Feel free to meta-review the service using LouderTweets!

Re: STOP PRESS: ShoZu to start charging!

Conor O'Neill — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:24:38 -0000

Thanks for the mention James. I'm happily using Pixelpipe on a G1 and find it easier to use that to push content online than either Shozu or Share Online on N95-8GB.

Re: Linux geek cooks up food blog

Conor O'Neill — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 03:20:30 -0000

Now that's funny. To me, Jason is the "Off the Broiler" and eGullet guy. It was only recently I realised he was a techie too!

His podcast is excellent by the way. The series in New Orleans post-Katrina should get an award.

Re: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”

Conor O'Neill — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:18:54 -0000

Robert, check out what PodChef Neal is doing. He's done great food podcasts for quite a while now and has also started doing video on YouTube. The production quality is very low but the content is world class. With his food knowledge and your resources, you could have a killer programme on your hands.

Re: PodTech’ers review iPhone on TwitterGram

Conor O'Neill — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:43:42 -0000

Or you could try the far more accessible <a href="http://blog.loudervoice.com/2007/06/18/more-loudertweet-instructions/
">LouderTweets text mini-reviews that we put together a few weeks back. We also have LouderViesti for Jaiku users.

Re: PodTech’ers review iPhone on TwitterGram

Conor O'Neill — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:00:24 -0000

Forget my last comment. In the spirit of experimentation, you can have your TwitterGram reviews indexed by our site LouderVoice.

Just add the Twitter user review as a friend and when you are uploading your TwitterGram, use this format for the title:

@review 5 Heroes TV Series. Audio:

So that's
@review Rating-1-to-5 ReviewItem Period+Space AnyTextYouLikeButWordAudioMakesSense

Within 30 minutes that review can be found, rated, bookmarked and grouped over at LouderVoice with the link always going back to the Tweet.

Here's an example of a Flock review.

Tweet via TwitterGram:

http://twitter.com/conoro/statuses/141281142

LouderVoice:
http://www.loudervoice.com/reviews/508652771

I'll add some auto-tagging of those audio reviews with "twittergram" when I get a chance.

Hope you enjoy.

Re: PodTech’ers review iPhone on TwitterGram

Conor O'Neill — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:02:30 -0000

In the spirit of experimentation, you can have your TwitterGram reviews indexed by our site LouderVoice.

Just add the Twitter user review as a friend and when you are uploading your TwitterGram, use this format for the title:

@review 5 Heroes TV Series. Audio:

So that's
@review Rating-1-to-5 ReviewItem Period+Space AnyTextYouLikeButWordAudioMakesSense

Within 30 minutes that review can be found, rated, bookmarked and grouped over at LouderVoice with the link always going back to the Tweet.

Here's an example of a Flock review.

Tweet via TwitterGram:

twitter.com/conoro/statuses/141281142

LouderVoice:
loudervoice.com/reviews/508652771

I'll add some auto-tagging of those audio reviews with "twittergram" when I get a chance.

Hope you enjoy.

Re: Why I don’t recommend Cocomment

Conor O'Neill — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:23:41 -0000

I've used a competitor called co.mments.com which launched right after Cocomment and missed a lot of the hype.

It's a very simple and far less intrusive service. You add a simple browser bookmarklet to your links bar which you click whenever you are reading a blogpost whose comments you want to track (you don't have to write a comment).

Any new comments in those posts get added to your RSS feed for tracking. The very rare time the service is down, you just lose the ability to track not to comment.

Works on blogs, Flickr, Digg, Upcoming

Highly recommended.

Re: Shelley killed Twitter

Conor O'Neill — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:27:29 -0000

I've created a new channel on Jaiku called #IsTwitterDown. I expect it to be very busy :-)

http://jaiku.com/channel/IsTwitterDown

Re: Irish coffees tonight

Conor O'Neill — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:02:46 -0000

So wish I was over there with the rest of the Paddies but couldn't make the trip this time. Have a blast tonight!

Re: Yet another trip to Silicon Valley?

Conor O'Neill — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 06:52:16 -0000

Thanks for the link Jeremy, it looks like we have some strong interest already.

We'll probably be travelling from both Shannon and Dublin and getting cheapish (€500 return) Aer Lingus flights to SF.

Dates TBD.

Re: Breakfast with Sam Sethi

Conor O'Neill — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:30:56 -0000

+1

Now that silly season is over, let's get back to the business of raising the profile of Irish startups everywhere.

Re: PutPlace is raising a BES Round

Conor O'Neill — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:25:33 -0000

LouderVoice will possibly be doing a BES scheme when the new rules are rolled out but it will be just for already identified investors initially.

Re: Web2Ireland meetup in London – at FOWA

Conor O'Neill — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:44:50 -0000

I'm up for it. Doing Geek Dinner on the Wednesday but free otherwise. Do you know any good kebab shops in the area?

Re: 10 highlights from FOWA

Conor O'Neill — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:57:24 -0000

Ryan and the gang delivered a fantastic event. I'm still buzzing and still grinning to myself about some of the highlights.

It was also the only time in my life that I walked up to a bouncer at a velvet rope in front of a nightclub, whispered "Future of Web Apps" and was let it!

Re: Fancy a trip to Sunny Colorado and go play at getting your startup going

Conor O'Neill — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:06:34 -0000

This is a great idea Brendan, I hope it can be replicated here too eventually. I'd love it if a bunch of "youngfellas" could head over, do it and bring back a bunch of valuable experience and seed the same idea here.

I wonder if the old trick we used back in '96 with immigration still works? In another start-up we were all sent over for "training" to our customer for 5 months. No-one seemed to mind and it was win-win all round. Not sure if we needed formal visas or just the right phrases in the airport :-)

Actually, this could easily be considered real training for visa purposes.

Re: Trackbacks now working

Conor O'Neill — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:21:01 -0000

Paul, it won't break existing posts but it will break any links on other blogs to existing posts, which is a concern.

I prefer the date/name permalink approach too. I'll see what the consensus from the admins is.

Re: Any Irish folks going to Web 2.0 Expo 2007 in San Francisco

Conor O'Neill — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:10:44 -0000

It would be a great opportunity and the timing is nearly perfect for our launch.

However I imagine the overall cost will be several thousand including flights/attendance etc and we couldn't risk it being a flop.

Is EI offering any assistance to companies attending?

Re: Our own world tour of The Valley?

Conor O'Neill — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:27:41 -0000

Sounds great Dan. I think we should be able to rustle up a good contingent before the end of the year.

Re: Our own world tour of The Valley?

Conor O'Neill — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:59:17 -0000

Later in the year is definitely the plan as a lot of people it might suit are doing launches in the next few months and will neither have the time nor the money. Early Autumn in the Valley is delightful :-)

Re: Valley World Tour Update

Conor O'Neill — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:02:53 -0000

Thanks Lal, really appreciate it.

Apologies to all for the lack of progress on it this week, we've been in the horrors with code completion all week.

Re: Web2Ireland at MIX07

Conor O'Neill — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:36:29 -0000

Keep those tweets comin lads. Any official Mix Tweet or spliced feed?

Re: Only 3 Web 2.0 companies in IRL?

Conor O'Neill — Fri, 04 May 2007 15:12:14 -0000

Zoom in more Lal, we've been on it for a week or two!

Re: Movies on a USB Key

Conor O'Neill — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:15:14 -0000

Their CEO gave a great presentation at the IBM Innovation Centre Launch. Deeply negative about trying to grow and finance a business in Ireland but lots of interesting lessons. The partnership with IBM seems to have worked very well for them.

Re: The Future of Web Apps – filling up fast

Conor O'Neill — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:46:23 -0000

Definite interest in a joint stand from LouderVoice

Re: Hosting Recommendations

Conor O'Neill — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:42:24 -0000

We've only used Irish hosts for blogs so I can't pass much comment on them.

Currently using Softlayer in US for dedicated servers and they are fantastic. Fast, efficient, cheap, great support, awesome connectivity, great tools, no downtime when power goes out in San Fran :-)

Using EuroVPS for VPS and don't see much performance gain over shared hosting so won't be renewing.

Using Webfaction for shared hosting due to Python and Ruby friendliness. Highly recommend them.

Mail/IM me if you want any more details on any of those.

http://www.argolon.com/contact

Re: First Web2Ireland DemoBar with FOWA Roadtrip visit

Conor O'Neill — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:43:39 -0000

Superb idea. We'd love to be involved.

Re: OpenID: Emerging from Web 2.0

Conor O'Neill — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:30:10 -0000

I'm a fan of it in principle and use it all the time but I see a huge problem in getting average punters to use it. We've delayed implementing it on LouderVoice twice now for that very reason.

Re: LouderVoice selected for Le Web 3 Start-up Competition!

Conor O'Neill — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:20:33 -0000

Ah we're chuffed to bits. Really looking forward to it. Who else is going from Ireland?

Re: Wahhhhh, no-one knows my company exists

Conor O'Neill — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:30:09 -0000

Hi Ger, Gordon Murray is doing some stuff on this if you want to contact him.

Re: LeWeb – 10 great takeaways

Conor O'Neill — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:35:26 -0000

Dave Morin's session on Facebook Connect at Le Web convinced me to enable support on Web2Ireland for it.

Re: Facebook Connect on Web2Ireland

Conor O'Neill — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:12:47 -0000

Not seeing comments pushed through from Web2Ireland to Facebook. Trying to get to the bottom of this.

Re: Facebook Connect on Web2Ireland

Conor O'Neill — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:48:32 -0000

Thanks Guys. Hope we see you at FB HQ in Dublin soon Dave.

Re: IGOpeople IGOes Live

Conor O'Neill — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:30:52 -0000

Final test of comment posting to Facebook.

Re: WebMission Now Includes Irish Start-Ups

Conor O'Neill — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:49:04 -0000

I'm looking at costs right now to see if we can afford it. Looks like an amazing opportunity with plenty of ROI.

Re: Innovate!Europe Pure Gold

Conor O'Neill — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:32:37 -0000

Caelan gave a great presentation.

I've been hesitant to publish the names of all the attending companies without getting their permission first, hence the abbreviated list.

Re: Show and Tell at API Wars and Facebook Garage

Conor O'Neill — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:30:04 -0000

Nice piece on Facebook Ireland in Silicon Republic

Re: Show and Tell at API Wars and Facebook Garage

Conor O'Neill — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:39:00 -0000

Your comments here will now (optionally) be posted to your Facebook Profile.

Re: Show and Tell at API Wars and Facebook Garage

Conor O'Neill — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:09:07 -0000

Thanks Colm, the local developer interest in Facebook seems to have had another big boost with Connect. The opening up of the Live Feed has a lot of people excited too. Looking forward to Thursday.

Re: EI Propel Programme for Border Startups

Conor O'Neill — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:24:46 -0000

Sinead, we're only passing on the message here. You should contact the Propel people directly if you want to progress this. Best of luck!

Re: EI Propel Programme for Border Startups

Conor O'Neill — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:20:39 -0000

Half an hour spent creating a few static pages on yola.com would be enough. Perhaps instead they have engaged some high end consultants to create the ultimate web-site?

Re: EI Propel Programme for Border Startups

Conor O'Neill — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:53:13 -0000

It looks like it based on the numbers but I don't know for sure.

Re: PuddleDucks Customers Given a Louder Voice

Conor O'Neill — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:48:35 -0000

Thanks Jonathan, it's been a joy working with Puddleducks. They really know what they are doing.

Re: EI Propel Programme for Border Startups

Conor O'Neill — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:24:52 -0000

It looks like the web-site has finally gone live Anna (a week before the deadline!) and they have all the info there.

Re: IQPrize Shortlist Details

Conor O'Neill — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:32:34 -0000

I don't know but I doubt it since all of this was done in people's spare time and IQContent doesn't have a formal set of comments for each plan from the judges.

Re: Strong Irish Representation in The Europas

Conor O'Neill — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:00:06 -0000

Well spotted Keith, they either moved category or I mis-typed. Fixed now.

Re: Tuesday Push: LouderVoice

Conor O'Neill — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:05:22 -0000

Ah thanks James. Love the new blog look BTW.

Re: Review of Vaude Freiburg Briefcase (Pannier)

Conor O'Neill — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:39:40 -0000

That pannier might even tempt me back on my bike. Looks fab!