James Galvin

Congrats to Cubic Telecom and Pat Phelan on MAXroam V2.

Bigger and bolder MAXroam hurts the feelings and pockets of telcos even more than before 100,000 customers, $1Million in savings in 10 months Up to 90% discount on USA roaming rates Data roaming in 75 countries and much lower than carrier prices Coverage now in 175 countries with over 450 partner carriers

I’ll be in the US myself this week so if I’ll try to track down MAXroam phone and save a few quid.

Too often I intend to write something on here, but settle for a 140 character light version instead. I’m a few days late in thanking Anton Mannering and everyone involved in organising Techludd Cork. It was a very nice event in the Cork Airport Hotel - some mini reviews here by Robin, Damien, and Donncha.

There were three great demos:

• Decisions for Heros: a shiny web app designed for rescue teams by Robin Blandford, who is on the shortlist for seedcamp. There are a number of directions that this project could go, so it will be interesting to see what Rob decides. Will be watching this.
• SnapScribe: the latest offering from Walter Higgins & Sxoop Technologies (powerful web-based software for “photo books made easy”). I had heard bits and pieces about it on Twitter and elsewhere over the past few weeks, and am amazed to see how advanced it is already.
• Tweet Tweet: a Wordpress plugin by Donncha O’Caoimh:
  

  “Tweet Tweet is a plugin for WordPress that polls Twitter and archives your tweets and the tweets of those you follow so those insightful conversations you have at 1am are never lost.”

  It also supports SMS notification with Meteor and Vodafone. I have it installed on this blog now… very nice indeed. If you are a Twitter user and a Wordpress user, you should definitely install this to keep track of your conversations.

There is definitely a good web 2.0/tech buzz in Cork at the moment. There has been some great stuff cropping up locally this year, like SnapScribe, Teamwork PM (a project management site along the lines of Basecamp), Twitterfone (which launched v2 recently), LouderVoice (which is always evolving), and I know there is loads happening behind the scenes that has not made it to a press release yet. Not least at Glandore Systems where it has been a busy few months - we’ll be looking for some beta testers soon enough!

It was this creative buzz that inspired a few of us to put our heads together and do something productive with the web in our spare time, to experiment with new technologies and hopefully launch some useful applications. The big news last week was Tweetrush, an implementation of the Rush Hour analytics engine. We got some great coverage, on TechCrunch, The Irish Times, and elsewhere. “Tweetrush” was even the hottest word on Twitter for awhile (screenshot). AJ has chronicled the launch nicely on his blog.

Tweetrush was intended primarily as a sneak preview of Rush Hour, but it revealed statistics that could not be found anywhere else (except maybe at Twitter HQ), including the total number of active users within a given time frame, or the total number of public tweets. It is great to see that so many people were able to find their own uses for the service, and even ask the question Tweetrush for Enterprise?.

There has been a lot of interest since in Rush Hour Analytics, but this is still in closed beta, so stay tuned to Gogoza for more information on that.