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Mike Butcher is the European Editor for TechCrunch. A former grunge rock drummer, he became a long time journalist, and has since written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman. Mike is also a co-founder and shareholder of TechHub, a co-working space/service/community with several locations... → Learn More

Thursday, June 26th, 2008
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I flew into Dublin today for our first TechCrunch meetup in Ireland (yay!), and as previously blogged, TechCrunch is hooking up with networking event TechLudd to create a real-world mashup we like to call CrunchLudd (see what we did there?)

This morning I rocked up to Dublin’s The Digital Media Hub to meet with a bunch of interesting startups here. I took a few pictures and shot some short video pitches (please excuse the camera shake, it was shot on a mobile phone…)

Here are the pix so far of the trip:

Here’s the short video interviews with RelevantMedia, IGO People, PutPlace (which just launched an open beta), SentryWireless and Digital Media Forum:

Meetup details for tonight:

If you’re in Dublin tonight, then the meetup is from 7:30pm at “4 Dame Lane”, Dublin

The event is absolutely free so please but you must register on the Amiando page. There’ll be an “OpenDemo” for those who want feedback on the stuff they’re working on right now. Here’s a list of our demo companies.

Thanks a million to our sponsors:

dev.mobi
dev.mobi is the world’s leading independent mobile development community, brought to you by Dublin’s very own dotMobi

Digital Media Forum
The Digital Media Forum is an enterprise network that develops and administers enterprise resources for companies in the digital media industry. Our goal, over the next two years, is to develop the network of companies in the Digital Media area.”

Sun Startup Essentials
The Sun Startup Essentials program is specifically designed to help startups get their business off the ground FAST—at the LOWEST COST possible.

Tidal Wave Media
Coming soon at http://tidalwaveweb.com, Tidal Wave media is a crowdsourced magazine publishing company. It uses Social Networking technology to allow users in specific interest areas to build and realize a magazine for them and there community.

  • Darragh

    Hey Mike, one small correction – url for relevant media is relevantm.com

  • http://www.relevantm.com Niall Larkin

    Hi Mike. Hi Darragh. Wow you guys are fast! That’s right http://www.relevantm.com Looking forward to the TechCrunch meetup. There’s a great buzz around

  • http://dev.mobi James Pearce

    Drinks on us! – see you there :-)

  • C

    Hi Mike,

    Just to let you know of an interesting event while you’re in town (and a reason some people who would otherwise be at the Dublin TechCrunch meetup cannot be) – the Darklight festival is on from this evening through to Sunday. Cutting edge film, animation, art and technology. Check out the programme at http://www.darklight.ie

    Love the blog,

    C

  • http://uk.sun.com/startups Stewart Townsend

    Unfortunately I cant make it tonight, to drink some of the beers, but next time Ill make sure I do and as it says, startup essentials we are here to help you scale, grow, gain PR and all at a very low cost, but Enterprise class now, not later. Check out, http://blog.fav.or.it/ if you dont believe me :-)

  • http://uk.techcrunch.com Mike Butcher

    Re: Darklight: Anyone know a contact I can get a press pass from?

  • http://www.igopeople.com David Cotter

    Nice to meet you all today – see you later.

  • http://uk.techcrunch.com Mike Butcher

    live from the dublin meetup {seesmic_video:{“url_thumbnail”:{“value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/ShsXFk1E50_th1.jpg”}”title”:{“value”:”live from the dublin meetup ”}”videoUri”:{“value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/5cbNHN560Q”}}}

  • http://www.bytesurgery.com Robin Blandford

    Good Stuff Mike – keep it coming.

  • http://dev.mobi James

    Quick write up of some of the startups there tonight: http://dev.mobi/blog/the-mobile-web-alive-and-well-startup-land

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