bootstrappr by Renai LeMay

From boom to bust, from unconference to BarCamp and beyond, Renai LeMay tracks the fortunes of Australia's startup community. This blog is syndicated from ZDNet Australia, keep fully up to date with Renai at bootstrappr's home

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Aug 27

MyPerfect.com.au has potential

After 12 months in stealth mode, Drysdale-based start-up My Perfect this month launched what it described as a new type of online search service: a "choice engine". (Drysdale is on the Bellarine Peninsula, just out of Geelong in Victoria, Australia.) Founder Andrew Ballard told bootstrappr the service was like having "an expert in your pocket". "Traditional search engines start with one [...] Read more »

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Tags: search engine, seo, my perfect, geelong, victoria, startup, web 2.0

Aug 06

Australian twitterati talks malware

It was inevitable that micro-blogging service Twitter would become infested with malware, according to a number of high-profile Australian users of the service. In the last week Kaspersky Lab has uncovered a fake Twitter profile created solely for the purpose of infecting people's computers with rogue software. Security researcher Avi Raff has also launched a website devoted to Twitter security [...] Read more »

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Tags: stephen collins, stilgherrian, gavin heaton, twitter, kaspersky

Jul 28

Silicon Beach Australia

A group of Australian Web technology thinkers and entrepreneurs have started a new Google Group to build the Down Under version of California's famous high-tech development locality. They call it: Silicon Beach Australia. PricewaterhouseCoopers staffer and DataPortability.org founding member Elias Bizannes started the group, registering the domain name SiliconBeachAustralia.org to go along with [...] Read more »

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Tags: dot com, entrepreneur, start-ups, google groups, web 2.0, google

Jul 23

Omnidrive: Alive and kicking?

Troubled online storage start-up Omnidrive late last week said it was continuing to develop its products and was examining the potential to merge its technology with that of other companies. Speculation has run rife in Australia's start-up community about the company's future since its chief technology officer, former Kazaa executive Phil Morle, quit in August last year after just six months on [...] Read more »

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Tags: kazaa, nik cubrilovic, omnidrive, techcrunch, clay cook, phil morle, storage

Jul 18

Is Streem just Scopical take two?

When I wrote about Sydney-based social news start-up Streem earlier this week, the group was less than forthcoming about the real history behind its operations.The old Scopical website Last week Streem spokesperson Elgar Welch, representing his company as "Streem", told me the group had on 15 July this year launched its Streem.com.au site with support from a number of private investors, who had [...] Read more »

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Tags: elgar welch, startups, social news, scopical, streem, sydney

Jul 17

Sydney start-up Streem launches news site

Sydney-based start up Streem yesterday formally launched a new online news site, saying it would differ from traditional media outlets by paying readers a small fee for any content they submit. Streem spokesperson Elgar Welch said the site currently had about eight editorial staff, and also supplemented its content with wire feeds from companies like Australian Associated Press (AAP). However, [...] Read more »

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Tags: aap, news, streem, norg media, perthnorg, startup

Jul 17

Bootstrappr comes out of stealth mode

When Apple supremo Steve Jobs was interviewed for the famous 1996 PBS documentary Triumph of the Nerds, he clarified exactly why people get involved in technology start-ups. "I was worth over a million dollars when I was 23, over $10 million when I was 24, and over $100 million when I was 25," he told interviewer Robert X. Cringely. "It wasn't that important," Jobs continued. "Because I never [...] Read more »

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Tags: realestate.com.au, startup, wotif, wotif.com, ben barren, ninemsn, steve jobs, apple

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