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Mobile 2.0 Startup Ecosystem

samuel337 — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:16:33 GMT

"Mobile Web expert Rudy De Waele has posted slides of a presentation he did last week in London, at the Mobile Web 2.0 Conference. This is the best and most comprehensive overview of Mobile Web startups and product ecosystem that I've yet seen."

Interesting set of slides on mobile 2.0 startups. As cool as some of them are, especially Futurlink and the QR code stuff, I'm not convinced of the direction because mobiles are so fragmented right now in terms of platforms, that something needs to be done to bring them together first.

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IQzone - Mobile Classified Ads

samuel337 — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:28:20 GMT

"IQzone, Inc. is the future of classified advertising. Snap. Send. Sell. - use your mobile phone to post a classified ad in less than 60 seconds. Simply take a photo or video clip of any product or service, text a description and send to ad@iqzone.com."

This is a pretty cool service, possible disruptive to eBay because it makes it so much easier to post - anyone who has used eBay will attest to how confusing it is sometimes.

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The Business of Blogging | Dipping into the Blogpond

samuel337 — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:21:20 GMT

"Is your Australian blog a hobby or a business? Should you register a business name? Should you apply for an ABN, or register for GST?"

Pretty nice summary by Meg on handling the business side of things in Australia not only for blogs, but also for small businesses in general.

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blog.pmarca.com: HP buys my company Opsware for more than $1.6 billion in cash

samuel337 — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:53:14 GMT

"In September 1999, at the height of the dot com boom, a small group of colleagues and I started a new company, Loudcloud, based on the idea that the huge Internet infrastructure buildout then underway -- by startups and big companies alike -- required a new approach to running modern datacenters and computer systems at high scale: automation... In September 2002... we sold our managed services business to EDS and turned Loudcloud into Opsware... Today we have announced that Opsware is being acquired by Hewlett-Packard for more than $1.6 billion in cash, or $14.25 per share."

Holy moly. Marc Andreessen executes again, another hundreds of millions added to his bank account.

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Flog your stuff with Flogd.com

samuel337 — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:50:19 GMT

"I got an email a few weeks back from Phillip Kingston, who together with Edward Thomson, have launched a self funded, beta service called Flogd. Both are 4th year students at the University of Melbourne.The basic idea behind flogd is that you can very easily integrate your own shop on your blog, myspace or facebook profile (yes, there’s a Facebook app). I imagine there would certainly be a large market of niche blogs out there who would have relevant products to flog."

Interesting idea, and all done using paypal so minimal setup costs to them, but revenue flows from commission. Good luck guys! Meanwhile, I should get a Facebook account...

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Blake Ross » Facebook Goes Public (withnewsaboutitsrecentacquisitionofParakey,Inc.)

samuel337 — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:30:40 GMT

"You may have seen the news that Facebook has acquired my fledgling startup, Parakey. The project remains very much alive, and since we will be working to port the concepts and technology to Facebook, it will remain stealthy."

Wow, congrats to Blake but this definitely shows that Facebook has more than the web in its sights. Sounds like a bold plan to leapfrog it's competitors.

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Tinfinger: Cyclingnews: Aussie Web 1.0 success story

samuel337 — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:25:03 GMT

"You probably won't see this story in much of the trade press, but one of the quiet achievers of the Australian corner of the Internet has just had what sounds like a very satisfactory and lucrative exit. Knapp Communications, based in the inner-city Sydney suburb of Surry Hills, has sold the bicycle news Web site cyclingnews.com to UK-based Future Publishing for £2.2 million (A$5.2 million, US$4.4 million)."

Wow, very impressive.

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Pacific Fox - The new POWER in Aussie Directories (NOT)

samuel337 — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:22:17 GMT

"The scenario goes something a little like this. You have a website with a LOT of data, business listings to be precise - and over 1.3 million of them...When checking your website statistics one day, you notice an IP address accessing a LOT of pages and sucking a lot of bandwidth...You recognise the offending IP as a business who has a premium listing on your business directory...you do a bit of digging, and voila! here it is...perhaps they should declare the fact that they simply plagiarise the hard work of others."

Wow, sounds like plagiarism caught red-handed. Go get 'em!

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Zennstrom on entrepreneurship

samuel337 — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:09:02 GMT

Great video, and very spot on about a lot of stuff.

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Smart Company - Our top 10 digital entrepreneurs - Our top 10 digital entrepreneurs

samuel337 — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:10:44 GMT

"Who are Australia’s emerging digital entrepreneurs, making their mark across the world, disrupting technology and business models and making millions of dollars along the way?

SmartCompany set out to compile a top-10 list. The most difficult part of the exercise has been to choose from such a strong field. "

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