Posts from — December 2007

A big thank you to every one that has been helping me with translating the justroutes so far. We are now up to 7 languages, in no special order, Gaeilge, Magyer,Italiano , Español , Francais , Deutsch and Polski . If you want it in any more languages or you would like to help, just drop us an email.

Vinny

As one of the most promient media technology companies coming out of Ireland, Intruders.tv can be found all over the country covering events dealing with technology. At the recent DemoBar in Dublin, they took the time out to have a chat with Dave and myself. You can catch the video here, to see us in our early days when we were still wet behind the ears, maybe we still are, who knows. Tune into it as Conn O Muineachain tours all the other Irish Web Startups on his site.

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JustRoutes.com mashes bus and rail timetables with Google maps, and the location of every single bus-stop on the routes covered. The result is one of the most useful web applications imaginable for anyone who wants to get from A to B.

Last Summer, Vincent Glennon and Dave Rooney had the idea for a website that would help them to get around Dublin. 6 weeks later they launched the first version at the Web2Ireland Demobar / FOWA Roadtrip event in Dublin, where this interview was recorded for Intruders.TV.

Since then, they’ve added another 2000 Dublin Bus stops and started work on the national bus routes. They now have all Dublin inbound routes covered and all expressway routes as well. Altogether, half of the national routes are covered.

They’ve been named as one of the top 10 new startups in Europe and they exhibited at FOWA in London. Blognation’s Ewan Spence recorded a podcast with them there.

JustRoutes.com is great story of entrepreneurship, which illustrates beautifully what can be done with the current state of technology. Dave and Vinny have had no outside investment or help. All they had was a great idea, and the Web 2.0 ecosystem provided all the tools and resources they needed to build it into a working, useful application. This is one to watch!

As part of Dublin Transport Office plans to free up traffic for the busy Christmas period, they have set up freeflow.ie again for another year. But this time around, they have linked off to our site in their menu. Nice one, I hope this will be of use trying to get into the City Center this month. While it is only a small step, it is excellent as it is directly informing the people we want to get in touch with. I have always found the DTO to be the most friendly and helpful of all the agenies in Dublin dealing with transportation which I have come across so far.

http://www.freeflow.ie/ Check it out

We have just been made Website of the Week with ENN, an Irish news source. Full copy below.

Website of the week: JustRoutes.com
Friday, August 11 2006
by Ralph Averbuch

http://justroutes.com/
JustRoutes.com is an online travel planner created through imaginative use of existing services – otherwise known in some circles as a mashup. It’s all about making better use of public transport. At the moment it’s Dublin focused with 251 Bus, Luas, Dart and train routes to help you get where you’re going. But according to Vincent Glennon and Dave Rooney who set up the service, JustRoutes will eventually cover every public transport route for Ireland.