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Another week, another Tuesday Push. This week we’re pushing for MyMunster.com the Munster Rugby Fans social network. We’re based in Limerick and our offices are 200 yards from Thomond Park, the site of many Munster miracles.

I’d signed up for MyMunster ages ago, but that password email combo was long lost in the mists of time. So I signed up again today. Unfortunately the sign-in had some kind of bug and I was redirected to a non-existent page.

Initial glitches aside, the site is great for Munster fans. A simple home page, an interesting blog and discussion forums that pull no punches.

It would be even better if all Tuesday Push blog posts got a ticket for the upcoming Heineken Cup Quarter Final against Ospreys.

Damien Mulley describes the Tuesday Push as “a way for the small but growing tech community in Ireland to make some noise about ourselves by picking a good example of an Irish Tech Company and highlighting their product(s) every second Tuesday.” Its another great idea from Damien, and a great example of taking positive action and doing something in these “interesting times”. Past Tuesday pushes included companies like PutPlace and Pix.ie.

This week’s push is for Dublin, Ireland based IGOpeople. “IGOpeople is a network for the real world, one place online where you can stay connected with the people, groups and organisations who matter to you”. Its essentially a set of threaded discussions with voting that people can use to interact with other individuals, groups of people or with an organisation (hence the IGO). Their business model is around subscriptions from business organisations.

The design of the site is excellent, modern but inobtrusive. It has some nice Ajaxy scrolling effects and rich-text textareas. The groups and discussion threads are well organised. It looks like business organisations are gravitating to the site as well so maybe some of them will do some listening.

I talked to Campbell Scott the CEO at Barcamp in Cork last November. It sounds like they have bigger plans for the product and altruistic goals about contributing to society. I think developed in Ruby on Rails (always a good sign). Darragh Curran from the technical team contributes to the Ruby Ireland group (another good sign).

Check it out.