Next two OpenCoffees
The next Cork OpenCoffee is on Friday June 6th in Luigi Malone’s on Emmet Place at 10am. The one after that is back to the Rubicon Centre in CIT.
We won’t have a formal demo slot in Luigi’s but as always everyone should feel free to whip out their laptops to show us what they are working on.
The Demo Slot on the 20th will have Paul Harrington show us MapEnable.
Map Enable allows you add mapping functionality to your website
without having to make any code changes to it. When adding an item to
your site that you want mapped, you:
- Insert a line of HTML code along with the item into YOUR website
- Add information about the item into the MapEnable system
Latest Cork OpenCoffee Videos
I forgot to mention that I took some videos of the Tapasol demo at last week’s OCC. Here they are:
Tapasol 1:
Tapasol 2:
Tapasol 3:
Room Sweep:
TwitterFone goes live
Our second last OpenCoffee was in Luigi Malone’s where Pat Phelan, from Cubic Telecom, demoed TwitterFone to us all. We were all sworn to secrecy until the official launch which happened last night. The response, as we all predicted, has been overwhelming.
Apart from the fact that it’s a fabulous service, there are some strong lessons to be learned from the TwitterFone development.
- Do it, do it, do it do it. Don’t talk about it, just do it! Pat has had such amazing successes because he executes brilliantly
- Partner with like-minded companies. If your offering is going to be stronger combined with someone else’s, then don’t be afraid of working closely with them.
- Use your networks to find people who can help you build your vision and get it launched more quickly
- If you are a service provider, focus on mutual value not price. Even at the simplest level, think of the free publicity you’ll get with the launch of something you helped build.
- Demo and solicit feedback as early as possible. Keep the vision but stay open to suggestions of your peers.
I know of two OCC regulars who have kicked into high-gear on their app development as a result of Pat’s Demo and advice in Luigi’s. I hope we see even more.
Well done Pat!
Tapasol to Demo on May 23rd
The guys from Tapasol have built some very interesting bare-metal provisioning and deployment software. I remember looking into this area in EMC a few years back and being disappointed by what was out there.
It’s great to see a local company doing something in this space, particularly one that came about due to the Motorola closure. The guys also recently won an award in this years Genesis Programme.
On Friday the 23rd they will talk about the challenges of deploying software on Unix servers and give a demonstration of their automated solution to build a Unix server from bare metal with a single command.
Phoebe Bright to Demo To-Do App
The next demo slot on May 9th will have Phoebe Bright presenting her To-Do application. I’ve seen an earlier incarnation of this in action and I think it is very competitive to what’s out there and has some unique features. In Phoebe’s own words:
Another To Do List Application
This has been my pet project for two years, but stimulated by a conversation at Open Coffee a few weeks ago, I am heading off in a new direction with it and I’d love to get some feedback. The requirements for this to do list are:
- Differentiate between important and urgent
- Allow addition of comments and emails
- Store online but accessible by email
- Use of free format keywords
- Only show me a limited number of items at a time (otherwise I get depressed)
- Offer me an incentive for getting things done.
It was this last one that got me thinking and the new interface involves piles, desks (clean and normal), boxes, housekeepers and rummaging in the archives!
