A couple of weeks ago I received an email from Robin Tilotta saying that I would be featured as the Typepad.com blog of the day from 18.00GMT for a day. So first off - thank you :-)
For people new to Pure Play I am one half of a team that is working slowly to bring a new service to the web for guitar players, collectors and enthusiasts - www.dbtwang.com. It has been a slow burner (we both have other businesses that earn us our daily bread) but we are nearly there and if you leave us your email address on the site we will let you know when we launch. Which will be before the end of 2007.
One of the best things about working on early stage start ups in Ireland is the assistance and support that each and every entrepreneur receives from others in the same situation. It is open and generous which is great.
There are loads of really interesting and ambitious internet businesses coming out of Ireland so if you have the interest take the time to explore this very incomplete list of them. I am relatively uninvolved in many of the initiatives and only know some of the businesses so this list is only a starting point.
Early Stage Irish Tech Startups
www.touristr.com
Find and share great tourist destinations (a Ruby on Rails Build :-)
Their blog is www.touristrepublic.com - written by Jan Blanchard
http://pixenate.com
Pixenate is the photo editor of choice for photo printing and photo sharing businesses.
Their blog is sxoop.wordpress.com - Written by Walter Higgin
www.loudervoice.com
Reviews - find them, blog them, rate them
Their blog is www.argolon.com - Written by Conor O'Neill
www.putplace.com
PutPlace is software that will find, organize and publish your digital life to the Web
Their blog is putplace.wordpress.com - Written by Joe Drumgoole
Some great Irish Bloggers
Tom Raftery - www.tomrafteryit.net
The leading social networking consultants in Ireland
Damien Mulley - www.mulley.net
Damien runs the Irish Blog Awards among other things. He is outspoken and fun to read but also puts loads into this community in Ireland
Bernie Goldbach - irish.typepad.com/irisheyes
If there is one Irish blog run on Typepad that deserves this more than me it is Bernie's. His mind is bouncing around the future of the internet and most of the time I cannot follow him!
James Corbett - eirepreneur.blogs.com
James is another one of those who give loads into this space in Ireland. He digs Grazr.
Is Podcasting your thing? Here are some great Irish Podcasters
Brian Greene - www.briangreene.com
Conn Ó Muíneacháin - imeall.wordpress.com
Ken McGuire - www.kenmc.com
And for the first Podcamp Ireland - www.podcampireland.com
You will find loads more of the above on the attendance and speakers list for the various Irish barcamps here barcamp.org/BarCampIreland.
And on this blog (www.paddysvalley.org) details of a group of Irish entrepreneurs who are traveling (self organised) to Silicon Valley later this year. If you are based there and have an interest in meeting them in early December head to their blog and contact them.
Loads more here www.web2ireland.org and here www.coworking.ie
Thats it. Welcome to a tiny part of Ireland on the internet!
keith
*blush*, thanks Keith! And congratulations! Well deserved.
BTW, you *need* to get on Twitter.... and Jaiku.... er, and Facebook :-)
Posted by: James Corbett | August 23, 2007 at 19:51
hiya James, like a hole in the head. I cannot keep up with my core stuff :-)
keith
Posted by: keith bohanna | August 23, 2007 at 20:03
Way to go Keith, congratulations. And thats a really great photo of yourself, the smile gives the blog a lift.
Posted by: Rebecca (living sustainably and felting in rural Ireland) | August 23, 2007 at 20:21
Nice one Keith!
Thanks for the mention.
Posted by: Conor O'Neill | August 23, 2007 at 21:48
Well done Keith and thanks for the mention.
Posted by: Jan Blanchard | August 23, 2007 at 21:54
Congratulations Keith on getting a well deserved "Featured blog" from Six Apart.
Well done. You've always been A-List in my book. Get yerself on twitter already !
Posted by: walter | August 23, 2007 at 22:42
Congrats Keith!
Posted by: Michele | August 24, 2007 at 01:30
Once again Keith does it with style and doesn't bask in his new traffic surge but instead insists his new visitors check out the work of other people. The mark of a noble man. Typepad picked well.
Posted by: Damien Mulley | August 24, 2007 at 01:58
what damien said! very cool keith! and i can say i knew you when :-)
Posted by: denise cox | August 24, 2007 at 10:46
"I cannot keep up with my core stuff"
You and me both! But the key thing with Twitter is not to treat is not to treat it like an inbox. Instead think of it more as background chatter, or 'social ambiance' as Chris Messina so eloquently put it. You can dip in and out like you'd go to the watercooler at work. It's just very very nice, especially for those of us working independently, to be able to socialize like that. And just as at a physical watercooler while the conversation *can* be mindless gossip it can also impart very useful information. I've noticed a lot of people forgoing ordinary blog posts in favour of micro-blogposts (as we call them on twitter and jaiku) but still sharing very useful information. And because the social networking bit is built-in you can also make some great connections.
Hope I'm not sounding like a shill ;-)
Posted by: James Corbett | August 31, 2007 at 09:38