Startup weekend Dublin, an event was sponsored by IOTA LS, came to a successful end last night. The winner of the weekend was Exsibit.com but as it was pointed out by the jury, all the projects that made it through the weekend have the potential to become successful products. Here is a list (source):

Exsibit.com: a platform for galleries to publish exhibitions, art lovers to find specific paintings, learn what exhibitions are taking place around them and experience the exhibition online.

MyWebText: a solution for the integration of facebook messaging and webtext

SalesMate: a solution for the road warrior salesman which is an iPad brochure that  integrates with a purchasing system

Gift It: a system which can enable a gifter to give multiple options in a tasteful way to a giftee, reducing the likelihood that the giftee would receive an unwanted gift

Netocracy: a system to enable citizens to measure the performance of their government

Eater.ie: a restaurant focused service which can enable restaurants to offer attractive deals to loyal customers

HabitClick: a simple mobile app which enables a person to track their bad habits (smoking, drinking, carousing with women, etc) so they can improve their behavior.

Everyone at IOTA Localisation Services is delighted to have been part of this weekend. We hope that all the teams will keep working on their projects, including making them available to a larger audience than just the Irish market.

Very good pitches from Startup Weekend Dublin. Probably not all of them will live through the weekend and become real products but some have very promising potential.

Here are the names of a few products pitched: LikeLoveLust, SalesMate, Jobsearch4, Shopper, Hideprice, exsibit, Net-OCRACY, The color for.me, Doorstep Diary, Quotesure, Restaurant Tech, Firelet, BizNetApp (Only pitch mentioning localisation!), Applausableideas, Social SMB, Liketext, Change Me, MediaPoints, LifeTrack.

Good luck to everyone!

For how ever you supported Iota LS in 2010, we thank you
And we wish you all you wish for yourself in 2011.

Christmas Footprints

Joe was born earlier this year and would like to experience Christmas a few times before drawing anything more demanding. For now a print of his feet in contrasting festive colours will do nicely, thank you!

By Joe, son of Graham and Claire, aged a little bit over a half.

Christmas Maze

Look into the maze for long enough and you’ll be drawn into it.

By Nicole, daughter of Jen, aged 5.

Rudolph, really REALLY close up.

Done on an iPad using the Brushes App, Emily has done a close up of Rudolph. He looks surprised, or something. Notice the snowflakes reflected in his eyes. That’s detail worth pointing out.

By Emily, daughter of Glyn, aged 12.

Three’s a crowd?

We’re not sure why the Snowman would want to keep the boy and girl apart. Maybe they were fighting, though judging from the look on the girl’s face, we think not.

By Erin, daughter of Paul, aged 9.

Short Sleeved Santa

Not sure what weather Santa was expecting but we imagine he’s cold in the snow. Also fighting agains the wind it seems!

By Grace, daughter of Paul, aged 7.

Paper-eating Santa

Look at it long enough and you’ll see what Thomas sees…… or else you won’t.

By Thomas, son of Graham and Claire, aged three and a half.

Christmas Tree and Lights

A beautiful Christmas Tree, with colourful lights. The presents may be sparse in number, but we bet they make up for that in quality…

By Kirsten, daughter of Geoff, aged 6.