Web2Ireland.org has arranged a fantastic event in Dublin this coming Thursday. Ten Irish Web start-ups will be presenting their wares to an assembled group of peers, press, Irish Investors, UK Investors, the Future of WebApps conference organisers and other interested parties.

We are thrilled that LouderVoice is one of the ten. If you want to find out more about us, hear about the new features we are launching very soon or would like to discuss investment opportunities (including BES), please head down to Ely HQ on Hanover Quay in Dublin at 6.30pm.

A big thanks to Joseph Scott over at WordPress.com for fixing the posting problem. Our reviewers can now safely start using them as a target for their reviews again.

Just a quick note to all our wordpress.com reviewers. Right now you will get an error if you post reviews from LouderVoice to this site. They broke something over the weekend which interferes with remote publishing of blog posts.

We are not the only ones suffering with this, Flock and BlogDesk are too. The basic problem is that whilst the post actually succeeds, the wordpress.com site returns an invalid response when we ask for the URL of the new post. In Flock’s case it just hangs.

We’ve just found out that one of the most prolific bloggers on LouderVoice, ManicMammy, was referenced by the Wall Street Journal in an article about virtual pets and Webkinz.

The mission of LouderVoice has always been to get the valuable opinions and knowledge of great reviewers heard. ManicMammy is one of a growing breed who actually started blogging so that they could get their reviews online in one place where there reputation resides. She is reporting a serious spike in traffic as a result of the link from the WSJ.

We thought we’d have some fun with Dave Winer‘s TwitterGram idea. You can upload MP3’s to TwitterGram and the service will send a Tweet on Twitter with a link to it so that people can listen to it. Robert Scoble did some reviews using it and we realised that it can work perfectly with LouderVoice via LouderTweets/LouderMinis.

If you want to do an audio review it really is trivial.

• Sign Up on Twitter

If you are a Twitter user and want to send reviews of Oxegen from your phone to us, you do not have to be signed up on LouderVoice. All you have to do is this:

• Add the the oxegen user as a friend on Twitter. You’ll be added back within a few minutes.
• make sure your mobile number is registered with them
• Start sending your reviews by SMS to +447624801423 in the following format:
• @oxegen 5 Queens of the Stone Age. Greatest band on the planet. Live set blew my mind
• So the format is: @oxegen RatingOutOf5 Thing. ReviewText

That’s it!

We’d love it if you would send us all your live mini-reviews of the two day Oxegen music festival.

Here are all the instructions for Jaiku users and for first-time mini-reviewers. Twitter instructions are coming in another post.

To send reviews of Oxegen from your phone to us, you do not have to be signed up on LouderVoice. All you have to do is this:

• Sign Up here on the wonderful Finnish site Jaiku
• Join the #oxegen channel there
• Register your mobile number with them
• Start sending your reviews by SMS to +46 737 494 0501 in the following format:
• #oxegen 5 Queens of the Stone Age. Greatest band on the planet. Live set blew my mind
• So the format is: #oxegen RatingOutOf5 Thing. ReviewText

That’s it!

We announced LouderTweets recently, which are 140 character mini-reviews you can send to LouderVoice from Twitter without needing a LouderVoice account.

Last night we turned on LouderViesti which is the equivalent feature for the superb Jaiku. Jaiku is like Twitter but can do much much more. They are based in Finland and are adding great features at a fast rate.

We are now calling LouderTweets+LouderViesti = LouderMinis!

Using LouderViesti is even easier than LouderTweets.

We’re had some feedback from non-Twitter users that they’d like to try out LouderTweets but the original instructions were a bit obscure. Here is the step by step.

1. You don’t need to have a LouderVoice account

2. Sign Up for a Twitter account here. All you need to provide is name, username and email address

3. You don’t need to invite anyone else in so skip that step

4. Go over the the “review” user’s page here

After a few late nights we’re now ready to let you send reviews from Twitter to LouderVoice. We’re calling them LouderTweets and they are 140 character mini-reviews you can send using Web, SMS or IM via Twitter to LouderVoice.

An important point is that you don’t have to be a LouderVoice member to send LouderTweets but you should join if you want to rate, bookmark or build/share useful collections of reviews.