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Posted by on 6 December, 2010 in Archive | Digital Media & Entertainment | Events | f.ounder/web summit | Software/Services | Telecom/Mobil - (Be the first to comment)
Produced by PathPacific.com [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/16311085[/vimeo] Founder and CEO of YouTube. Youtube is the world’s number one video sharing website. Chad shares his story of how YouTube was created. He also talks about being an Arts Major at College and Selling YouTube to Google. Chad presented at the Dublin Web Summit.
Posted by on 3 November, 2010 in Archive | f.ounder/web summit | Software/Services - (Be the first to comment)
Published November 3rd, 2010 by Ray Walsh
Supported by Enterprise Ireland, DataHug was co-founded in 2009 by Connor Murphy and Ray Smith, and has developed technology which indexes corporate email systems and generates actionable insight about the everyday connections between people. Commented one member of the judging panel Like LinkedIn/xobni on steroids,as it not only answers who knows who, but how well they know them. As well as the €30,000 worth of prizes (which includes costs towards legal, hosting and translation services), DataHug also won a partner package and speaking opportunity at next year’s Dublin Web Summit. Colm Rafferty, partner at Dublin’s Maples & Calder (which provided €10,000 worth of legal services), said that DataHug was chosen out of the five finalists because it was the one that best answered the judges’ question: ‘which company would you invest in?’ (more…)
Posted by on 2 November, 2010 in Archive | Digital Media & Entertainment | Economic | EI Client News | Entrepreneurship | f.ounder/web summit | News Press | Software/Services | Telecom/Mobil - (Be the first to comment)
Originally Published November 2nd, 2010 on the BestConnected Blog, by Paul Browne
CHAD HURLEY: “Right now I am in the process of transitioning into the role of adviser, stepping down, still being involved in the company, but it’s given me an opportunity to work on new projects,” he told the F.ounders international web conference in Dublin last night. “The last laptop lid has shut, the closing tweet sent, the final Gowalla check-in made. TheF.ounders Conference has ended. Was it just a talking shop where self-congratulatory geeks could indulge in mutual appreciation of their own cleverness, or was it a signpost on the road to a brighter future for Ireland? It is too easy to be cynical. Sure there was an air of unreality about the place. And the conference was, at times, just a touched too pleased with itself. But actually it was more than just a conference and if it was pleased with itself, then it had good reason to be.” “Paddy Cosgrove, the man behind the event should expect to be a man in demand.” (more…)
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Siliconrepublic editor John Kennedy says the arrival of the technology world’s elite, including Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom, YouTube founder Chad Hurley and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, shows that Dublin is ready to claim its title as Europe’s internet capital. As I made my way gingerly up the stairs at Bewley’s coffee shop on Grafton Street last Thursday afternoon, Skype founder and Atomico CEO Niklas Zennstrom’s words were ringing in my ears: “The technology revolution today is not dependent on Silicon Valley, there’s no reason why the next Google or Skype can’t come from Ireland.” I had just come from an interview with the very man and while memories of long winter evenings in the old Bewley’s coffee shop during my college years zipped through my mind, it was all I could do not to laugh out loud at the irony of what I saw before me. Unknown to shoppers bustling down the country’s main shopping thoroughfare below and in the midst of people sipping languidly their cups of tea or coffee was an assembly of the technology world’s royalty and between them worth billions of dollars. Sitting there were YouTube founder Chad Hurley, Lastminute.com founder Brent Hoberman, Bebo founder Michael Birch and Divyank Turakhi, co-founder and CEO Directi. Also present was the accomplished Dylan Collins, founder of JOLT Online and chairman of Gruupy and the organiser of the Web Summit, Paddy Cosgrave. Read the full article at SiliconRepublic.com
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The content of this blogpost was originally delivered as a welcome to the Founders at the recent Dublin Web Summit. Frank Ryan is CEO of Enterprise Ireland, the Irish Government Agency responsible for the development of Irish Industry.
One area of particular interest to the Government of Ireland is seeding innovation. In Enterprise Ireland, we have worked in this ever evolving space for 15 years now and today we are the largest seed capital provider in Ireland. We are unique as a Government Agency insofar that we invest in companies (in addition to providing grants for research, innovation and market development). Last year alone we took equity positions in over 70 companies and supported more that 200 start ups. We are dispensing tax payer’s funds so it is only right that we look to try and get some return for the people of Ireland. (more…)
Posted by on 31 October, 2010 in Archive | Digital Media & Entertainment | f.ounder/web summit | Software/Services | Telecom/Mobil | Travel - (Be the first to comment)
Influential blogger Renee Blodgett travels to Ireland for the Dublin Web Summit. The following is a snippet from her first post from the event. See the entire post here. Founders, funders, entrepreneurs, investors, and men who can all tell a damn good story are gathering in Dublin Ireland this weekend for two technology conferences, demonstrating that it’s not just the yanks and most certainly not just Silicon Valley geeks who can come up with successsful start-up ideas. Skype founder and now Atomico Niklas Zennstrom sponsored the kick off F.ounders dinner last night, the invite-only event co-organized by Paddy Cosgrove. The event, dubbed ‘Davos for Geeks’ in Dublin, is spread over a 2.5 day period. It runs along side with the Dublin Web Summit, which has managed to pull 600 attendees, all registered for a series of ‘sessions’ that ranged from developer tools and social media best practices to digital marketing and advertising today and successful company case studies. Read Renee’s full post from Dublin.
Posted by on 24 October, 2010 in Archive | f.ounder/web summit | Telecom/Mobil - (Be the first to comment)
I am bringing over Renee Blodgett to Ireland for the Dublin Web Summit. Renee is an influential blogger and social media advisor and co-founder of Traveling Geeks. Renee blogs at Down the Avenue, which combines technology, culture and life’s passions under one roof. Her blog was voted the top blog in a month long contest, up against some of the top blogs and agencies in the world www.downtheavenue.com. She is the founder of We Blog the World, a global blog network dedicated to stories, voices, and content about society, business, technology and culture from around the world www.weblogtheworld.com. Renee is also the co-founder of Traveling Geeks, whose mission is to collaborate with global technology innovators and influencers in various countries, cross pollinate ideas and mentor organizations and individuals, and then share that knowledge through blogging, video, podcasts, social media tools and meet-ups http://travelinggeeks.com/about. Renee will be in Ireland from Wednesday Oct 28th until Wednesday Nov 3rd. Any thoughts for good people for Renee to meet, these are her areas of interest.
Her profile is here http://magicsaucemedia.com/about-renee-blodgett/ Renee is an influential blogger and social media expert and co-founder of Traveling Geeks. The Traveling Geeks is a well known, widely followed and well respected group of bloggers http://travelinggeeks.com/about Renee would look to bring the Traveling Geeks to Ireland next year of this visit works out. While Renee is in Ireland she wants to blog on all aspect of Ireland, not just the tech. Here are some of the areas of interest – send me an email or tweet if you think you meet any of these criteria….
Renee Blodgett Those Who Can See the Invisible, Can Do the Impossible Renee blogs at Down the Avenue, which combines technology, culture and life’s passions under one roof. Her blog was voted the top blog in a month long contest, up against some of the top blogs and agencies in the world, many of which represent Fortune 500 companies. She is the founder of We Blog the World, a global blog network dedicated to stories, voices, and content about society, business, technology and culture from around the world. Renee is also the co-founder of Traveling Geeks, whose mission is to collaborate with global technology innovators and influencers in various countries, cross pollinate ideas and mentor organizations and individuals, and then share that knowledge through blogging, video, podcasts, social media tools and meet-ups. |
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On Friday, I was humbled by the presence in Dublin of many of the people that have re shaped the way people all over the globe work and interact socially. I hope and believe that in the three days of the Dublin Web Summit ideas were developed and discussed which will form the next wave of disruptive market led innovation in the internet. The range of topics covered is vast and crucial to the well being of mankind – from changing the world through technology, social entrepreneurship and philanthropy to the future of Mobile, Payments and hopefully the “next big thing”.
