David Behan's Web Design Ireland Blog

One of our own projects that we launched earlier this year, OurMemoryOf.com, is up for an Irish Web Award. In case you didn’t know, OurMemoryOf allows users to create a memorial website for their deceased loved ones with photos, stories and online book of condolence.

It’s the first year of the awards set up by Damien Mulley, following the success of the Irish Blog Awards. We’ve made the long list in the Best New Web Application / Service category and we’ve got some tough competition:

Irish Web Awards

• Pix.ie
• PutPlace
• Locle
• Mortgages and Loans
• Nooked
• BookMeetingRoom.com
• Next Action
• Url.ie
• LouderVoice
• Twitterfone
• Zignals
• eWrite
• Album Shopper
• Edenbee
• PropertySwap.ie
• Poll Daddy
• Decisions For Heroes

There really are some great web apps and services in that list. I think it will be difficult to make the short list with such a competitive category. We’ll just have to wait and see.

I felt a little cheated that I wouldn’t get a chance to judge any of the categories in this years awards as we had a nomination. However, I just read on the awards.ie blog that Damien is doing something quite unique with our category. He’s getting us to judge all the other nominees in our category, which will then be added to the other judges scores before the final short list is announced. A great idea Damien.

Well, I just want to wish everyone the best of luck and looking forward to meeting familiar faces and new ones on the night.

FeedMyInbox

Yesterday, I was browsing a cool application directory called feedmyapp.com, which has lists of some really cutting edge web applications. I’ve found some really neat stuff over there. One that I found yesterday and I thought I’d share was, feedmyinbox.com. FeedMyInbox allows you to add a website url and your own email address. Once you verify your email address, it will keep an eye on the RSS feed of the website to see if anything is new and when it finds new content, it make an email out of it, and sends it to you.

If the site you visit uses FeedBurner to manage it’s rss feeds (for stats and sharing), there is an option to put in your email address there too. However, as far as I know, the site needs to have been previously set up with feedburner. I just thought this was a nice, quick and simple approach for those that don’t use rss readers or maybe prefer not to have someone’s rss feed in their rss reader that’s not updated often. I added my own website to the app and my own email address, and this morning I had my most recent post in my inbox (and before feedburner had delivered it too).

I think they could expand the application to include some new features, maybe a control panel, a widget for websites to submit to their database, etc. For now anyway, it’s a nice, simple web app that’s worth checking out: FeedMyInbox.com.