Copacetic

I love EI and both the development advisors I have had have been super, BUT, the web site still sucks. It has always sucked. Why does it suck? Because instead of being organised around customers needs (i.e. the Irish Entrepreneur) it is organised around EI’s needs to publish information on web.

So ten tips for EI to make its web site better,

1. Make it Social: Give you HPSUs a login and create a social network around startups in Ireland. Only you know about all of us. Better still start something on Ning or Facebook or Google Groups
2. Add a Blog: Add an Blog and RSS feed for breaking news that way everybody gets the news rather than the select few who make it through the venn diagram nightmare of EI mailing lists
3. Give Me The Money: We want your advice for sure, but first we want your money Rapid front page “give me the money links” would take visitors right to the core of the matter, CORD, Innovation Vouchers, RTI, Equity Investment, Seed Capital and BES
4. Search more than your Site: Put up a decent search engine that links all the relevant resources. Here’s one I made in ten minutes, Government Websites for Irish Entrepreneurs
5. Automated Mailing Lists: Using a mailing list manager so when I register interest I can also unregister interest without requiring some manual step to remove me from the list. And, wait for it, let me choose what I’m interested in
6. Show us the World: EI has fantastic resources overseas lets seem them on the web site, how do we engage with these people, what can they do for us?
7. Share the Success: EI runs great events all over the world, lets hear about them online
8. IE is not the only browser: Make it look right in Firefox, this is not rocket science lads. 90% of your visiting customers are using Firefox and the rest are using Safari
9. Word is a proprietary format: Stop publishing documents in MS Word. There are far better and more palatable alternatives including OpenOffice, PDF, HTML etc. etc. How long before somebody publishes a new document in Office 2007 and all us poor saps with Office 2003 get screwed?
10. Pick One: Pick any one of these and run with it, then ignore the rest for now

How would you improve the Enterprise Ireland web site?

BTW: All this goes double for the Irish Software Association Web site!

I had the  great pleasure to have one of the founders of Muzu.tv, Ciaran Bollard attend the same HotHouse incubator program as myself, so it was great to get the following via email.

MUZU.TV is LIVE… at last!

MUZU.TV is now open in the UK and Ireland, so you can now Register at www.muzu.tv

WATCH - Gigs, Interviews, Behind the Scenes, Music Videos, Documentaries
PROGRAM - Your Music TV channels
BROADCAST - Your Music TV on the web

-Choose from thousands of legally available music videos, documentaries, live footage and interviews

-Add videos to your MUZU TV Player

-You can also Upload your own music content

-Embed the MUZU TV Player into your site

We pay you half the net revenue of all ad money generated from your stuff on MUZU.TV

WHAT TO DO NEXT:

REGISTER at www.muzu.tv

1. BROWSE the site and ADD videos to your MUZU TV Player (MY TV)

To add a video, simply click the + icon on your MUZU TV Player and the video currently playing will be added to your TV Player

2. UPLOAD your own vidoes to MUZU TV, by clicking on ‘UPLOAD’

3. EMBED your MUZU TV Player onto your site.

Go to ‘MY TV‘ and click the Embed button on the top right of your TV Player and the embed code will appear. Copy and Paste this code into your website or MySpace.

You can also build and customise your own MUZU TV Network and earn revenue on

content you own.  

For a step-by-step guide to all things MUZU TV, just click here, or contact support@muzu.tv with questions or feedback.

To start earning money with MUZU TV just email content@muzu.tv and we’ll send you our contract. 

Thanks,
The MUZU Team

MUZU TV - Your Music Network

Where bands, artists, festivals, venues, broadcasters, music magazines and more broadcast their music TV on the web.

WATCH - Gigs, Interviews, Behind the Scenes, Music Videos, Documentaries
CREATE - Your own Music TV channels
SHARE - Your Music TV on the web

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.

Check the stupidity of the guy/gal who put up this posters at Phibsboro cross roads.

Now you see it.                      Now you don’t.

FAIL.

Originally uploaded by Joe Drumgoole
This is a serious horn for cyclists. I came across it outside the Stephens Green centre and couldn’t resist trying it out. You grab the handle in front on the forks and lift and press. It is car horn loud!

Great for drivers in the cycle lane.

John Ratcliffe did a great talk on Digital Cities and the development of Irish “Gateway” cities. His presentation was good but if he had focussed on the latter half which was specific to Ireland it would have turned a good presentation into an excellent one.

I particularily liked one incediary image from the presentation. Make sure to read the whole presentation before you lynch me!

Dryclean.ie looks slick and would serve a real need, unfortunately they only service south side postal codes.

Sean talks about long range bluetooth (the tease) and  then bursts our bubble, but the picture at the end of the article is priceless.

1. I’m performing an illegal manoeuvre and the Garda might notice
2. I’m only changing lanes
3. I’ve passed my test
4. I’m on my second provisional license
5. I’ve stolen this car
6. I’m driving a white van/taxi/mercedes/BMW
7. It should be obvious from my road position what I’m planning to do
8. I’m running this red light (see reason 1)
9. Using my indicators runs down the battery
10. I used my indicators yesterday