Posted by Anton Mannering on May 2nd, 2008
As announced by PutPlace CEO Joe Drumgoole on his blog Wednesday some big news has come from one of his connections on the trip to the Web 2.0 Expo. At the Ireland connects event he ran into Debbie Hillard and to use Joe’s own words
“I was somewhat casually pitching her the PutPlace idea when she totally blew me away by announcing that this would be a good candidate for Under The Radar.”
So PutPlace will be presenting to Under the Radar on the 3rd of June. For those that don’t know, PutPlace is an online service that helps home users manage long term storage of their digital content. It provides you with an online backup service that backups up all your digital content, across all the devices in the home and recognises the fact that these devices are related to each other. So you never have to sift through CD backups again.
Wow! This really is a validation of the idea that you should always be pitching. It’s also very cool that PutPlace is mentioned specifically in the blog post announcing the participants.
I’d like to congratulate Joe on this and wish him huge success with it, it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
Posted by Anton Mannering on April 22nd, 2008
Yesterday I officially started working to develop the All Island Digital Media Network Project. The idea, as Neil described, is to help bring the Digital Media companies from all parts of the island together to realise real commercial opportunities both at home and abroad. It’s also about giving people a way of adding value for each other by having access to a larger local network which will in turn create an aggregated larger network locally and globally.
For those of you that know me and haven’t heard the news til now I apologise i’ve been sitting on the news mostly.
SO here we are at the start of something new for the Digital Media Forum and me. It’s gonna be big folks I can tell, maybe not from the start, but watch it move over the next few months there are quite a few things in the works. Stay tuned…
First assignment is out here in San Francisco at the Web 2.0 Expo where the Digital Media Forum are supporting a group of Irish companies from both Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland. They really are a great group of companies and some great guys and girls are here already, with more arriving today. Here’s a full list of companies on the Web2expo Tour.
In other news we’ve already met some of the guys from the UK WebMission and there are some great companies there too. It was great to meet Oli Barrett of Dailynetworker.co.uk, who’s brainchild the Web Mission is as well as Mike Butcher of TechCrunch UK & Ireland and quite a few of the others with that group at early events on Monday night. Ran into Stephanie Agresta and was delighted to hear that Mairin Murray of Waddell Media had managed to get along to the Techset barbecue I pointed her at on Sunday. It was great to meet Aubrey Sabala marketing manager of Digg as well. She invited us along to the Digg event on tonight so that should be cool.
So that was arrival day of the tour, next post will cover the Workshop day and some more of the events. And I’ll be highlighting some of the companies and what they’re up to and what they’re taking from the tour as we go along. Stay tuned…
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