Following Australian Startups and Tech Trends

Today I would like to give you some more insights into how this journey of following Aussie technology startups started and where I'm heading with this initiative. I have been following technology startups coming out of Australia since 2005. I published the first comprehensive list of startups in Australia in 2006 for RWW . Martin Wells & users at Whirlpoolforums provided leads in compiling that list. From their onwards, I have kept a close eye on the new ventures coming out of Australia. In March 2008, I conducted the First Online Startups Carnival which was Judged by Duncan Riley, Ross Dawson & Justin Davies .  During the carnival, we (Judges and I) covered nearly 30 startups. Since then I have covered an additional 40 startups - so in total 70 startups and interviews with VCs & Angel Investors . This list will be growing, as I will be covering more in the coming days/weeks/months/years. In addition to this, I have started publishing market analysis , technology...

Continuing in our coverage of bringing more surprise entries, today’s surprise entry is Booktagger Co-Founded by Jeremy and Rebecca LeBard, Booktagger is a niche web 2 social community for book lovers. Each Booktagger profile is a graphical representation of your physical bookshelf on the internet. The bookshelf can then be shared with friends, family and others searching for the next good read. Booktagger.com is the first offering, trading under the entity name Amity Agency, which specializes in the creation of niche web communities. Jeremy describes : We hope you'll congregate into book clubs and share reading experiences. Or maybe you'll catalogue all your books and track to whom they've been lent. We are a stand-alone site with a Myspace application due for release shortly. Jeremy gives us more insights about their startup: • How it started? Booktagger started off like any good journey, with a woman. Rebecca, an avid reader and fellow internet addict, could not fin...