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.

Fergus has posted his keynote slides from the IWTC Conference on slideshare.

I was out for pints last night with Mark Taylor who is Eircom’s new Web 2.0 Evangelist (who knew?). He was asking about events for Web 2.0 geeks in Dublin which got me thinking about Open Coffee.

Anybody on for an Open Coffee event in Dublin? Any suggested venues?

 As my commenters have pointed out Open Coffee is alive and kicking in Dublin  at the Morrison Hotel.  I just missed one today. Serves me right for not googling it first.

Anyway the next one is two weeks away and I’ve just added it to my calendar. Hope to see you there. 

Relevant NextWeb Locations on a handy Google Map.

PutPlace.com is launching real soon now and of course like everybody else on the planet we rolled our own user account management (UAM) system (you know, registration, login, logout, forgot password, change username etc. etc.). Needless to say we used a Framework (in our case Django) but why do I need to reinvent this wheel?

We get our storage from Amazon (and soon our Grid). Our O/S is a flavour of Linux,  our Database is Postgres, we use surveymonkey for surveys and mailchimp (what is it with the simian metaphor?) for mail campaigns, why can’t I pay somebody on a per user basis to manage my user accounts?

What would this service look like? Well pretty much like a credit card payment interface looks like on the web today but with the following features.

•  a bunch of REST endpoints for all the standard UAM functions
  • Register
  • Login
  • Logout
  • Enable User
  • Disable User
  • Set Session Timeout
  • etc.
• Support for session management
• Standard reporting (who, when, from where, how long)
• Support for OpenID
• Java, Python, Ruby and .NET APIs (Rails and Django integration for extra points)
• Global deployment with appropriate SLAs
• Deployment pages with a proper branding kit so people can get up and running quickly
• Ability to extract all my users in .csv format or via an API

I would pay for this service in chunks of hundreds to 1000s of users with all the usual discounting policy for prepayment or purchasing in bulk and the first 50 users are free.

One more pain point on the road to release removed.

I don’t want a free one with strings attached (e.g. LiveID) and I don’t want some non-profit consortium (e.g. the Liberty Alliance). I want to pay  for it and own my data.

Basically a Web 2.0 oriented OnDemand business.

 The Top Irish Web Apps are profiled today on Read-Write Web. PutPlace gets a mention,  yay!

John Toone CEO of Ireland’s emerging social music network startup,  Muzu.tv, spoke at SXSW about their goals in the coming months. Watch the promo video for a quick understanding of what they do (best to do it with headsphones, there is musical content).

These guys are going to go large…

I found a cool holiday tracking program last week http://whosoff.com. Lovely full feature program for tracking holiday allocations and requests for a small company. It has a proper approval system and lots of nice support for things like sick leave and pretty cool reporting tools. Best of all its free (ad supported, but ads are pretty innocuous).

Its a bit twitchy in Firefox (some gifs aren’t laid out properly) but apart from that does exactly what it says on the tin, tells you who’s off today.

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.

MySay.com the Web 2.0 VOIP play from Rococosoft has been chosen to present at the ETEL Launchpad for new startups in San Francisco.

Go Rococo!