Some exciting news just in - it's just been announced that Live Mesh Technology Preview has been extended to include Ireland (it's been available for everyone in Northern Ireland for some time now). Amit Mital from the LIve Mesh & Developer Platform team has blogged some details here.

Live Mesh was announced at Web 2.0 and all Irish developers are now invited to try out this new platform experience. There is a limit on how many developers in total sign-up - but no limit on what proportion are from Ireland/NI - so if you are interested, you should get in quick!

If you want to learn more about Live Mesh - here are a couple of videos you might find interesting:

• Ray Ozzie: Introducing Live Mesh: In this Channel9 video Ray Ozzie discusses the history of Live Mesh and how it was influenced by his previous work on products like Groove and Lotus Notes (about 16:30 mins in)
•  Web 2.0 keynote: Amit Mital doing 10 minute higher order bit  session on Live Mesh
• Platform experience quick tour and another overview on o10.
• Platform quick tour for developers
• Overview of Live Mesh architecture