Barry Downes

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May 17, 2008

MUZU is Live!

MUZU has just gone live to the public in the UK and Ireland.

I've been using MUZU for a week now and it's incredible.

It really advances the state of the art in the delivery of music over the Web.

Well done to Colm and all the guys here in Carriganore for really pushing the boundaries on this
and to Mark, Ciaran, Sarah and all the guys in Dublin. MUZU is truly a triumph.

Try it out for yourself at http://www.muzu.tv

Posted by bdownes at 3:14 PM | Comments (0)

May 8, 2008

ZolkC wins the UK Museums and Heritage Awards for Excellence

I'm delighted to wite that one of our spin-offs, ZolkC, won the 'Use of Technology' category at the Museums and Heritage Awards for Excellence, which took place in London last night. The award was presented to ZolkC and the National Trust for Scotland (sponsors) for the Culloden service which went live recently.

Well done Paul and your team! Well deserved!

Micheal and Eamonn were able to join Paul for the awards show last night.

Nice one guys!

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May 6, 2008

FeedHenry at spearhead of Oracle's Web 2.0 plans - Silicon Republic

From Silicon Republic

Irish firm at spearhead of Oracle's Web 2.0 plans

Waterford-based FeedHenry Ltd is at the forefront of Oracle's spearhead into the telecoms end of the burgeoning Web 2.0 marketplace.

Read the full story http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single%2010888.

So the background to this is that Silicon Republic picked up on a press release that was issued by Oracle last week in San Francisco. A number of similar releases were issued over the past two months to coincide with Oracle events that we attended in Brussels, Mexico and London. None of which were picked up in Ireland and we did not promote them locally. In fact, despite doing these events with Oracle we have been running in stealth mode for the past few months waiting for our launch with Munster at the end of this month and with a key Telecoms Operator shortly after. The Munster launch will demonstrate of how we can plug into a publisher or new media company and: enable them to rapidly widgetize their content; enable consumer personalisation; and enable massive cross channel distribution of micro content - in effect enabling the publisher and reader to stay in continuous contact, regardless of whether the reader is hanging out on FaceBook, iGoogle et al, is mobile, or is not even on the Web. Once Munster is live we will be able to offer this as a light-touch, plug-and-play solution that can be live in a matter of days. So we have been saving our publicity for the Irish company launch with the Munster later this month, then the UK launch shortly after, and then the San Francisco launch and office on June 10 (all going to plan :-) ).

Nice write up though by Silicon Republic and of course the Oracle relationship is key to us.

Posted by bdownes at 1:56 PM | Comments (0)