Following Australian Startups and Tech Trends

This is the second guest post by Rajesh Jain , an entrepreneur based in Mumbai, India, and Founder and Managing Director of Netcore Solutions Pvt Ltd . He has put together his thoughts on News and Content in a Digital World. Let's explore what he has to say: On Friday (August 1), I was part of a panel at an event organized by Afaqs - “ The Future of News. ” My panel’s topic was “Who will subsidise Digital Content?” Here is a gist of what was spoken: It’s not about subsidising but about monetisation: Thinking subsidies necessarily implies that the primary source of revenue is somewhere else. How can we look at the digital world independently and see how content can be monetised? On the Internet, the only revenue stream is advertising. My belief is that the mobile is where the big action and opportunities lie. On mobile, one can create multiple monetisation streams - from not just advertisers, but also subscribers, merchants and enterprises. For this, creating a direct-to-consumer

In the ongoing coverage of exploring new startups coming out of Australia, today we explore a promising startup in the online collaborative tool segment - Cinergix  It was co-founded by Charanjit Singh from Melbourne Australia. In a recent email-based interview with Charanjit, he explained how he is progressing with his venture. • Please tell us about yourself, your background and your interests? See Profiles below - basically, we are all staunch believers of Internet innovation and spend most of our free time exploring new technologies, products and thought leadership blogs like TechCrunch, Read/Write Web, Mashable, IT|Redux, Guy Kawasaki, John Battelle, etc. • What is the name of your venture/company? Company: Cinergix Pty Ltd Product: Creately • Please tell us about your venture/company? Cinergix is the Australian start-up developing the Creately platform and its patent-pending KObject technology, which is changing the way we solve design and modelling problems. Creately is a rich

Today we explore an exciting venture in the Real Estate Industry - PTY Auctions Pty Ltd . It was founded in 2006 by Gavin Stuart from Sydney, Australia. In a recent email-based interview with Gavin, he gave insights into his venture and how he is progressing with it. This is what he has to say: • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? I was responsible for the development and implementation of property applications for PTY Auctions. The development and implementation took approximately 2 years with the majority of that time spent working with the regulators to ensure the service complied with each of the State's regulations. Since 2002, I have been involved in successfully conducting live online auctions worldwide selling ‘speciality coffee’. I also oversaw the development and implementation of a global document storage solution for the International Task Force for Commodities Risk Management – members of this task force include: ABN AMRO, Rabobank, Mitsui,

Today we explore an exciting venture in web-based content management software - Millstream . It was founded in 2006 by Adrian Lynch from Perth, Australia. In a recent email-based interview with Adrian, he gave insights into his venture and how he is progressing with it. This is what he has to say: • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? I studied Graphic Design, graduating in 1990, and have run my own businesses since then. I have always been extremely interested in the technical side of 'design' especially developing automated systems to remove the incredible amount of wasted effort that goes into publishing. I still do a bit of design work, but I now spend most time coding or on system design. • What is the name of your venture/company? Millstream Web Software, our product is Spring CMS. • Please tell us about your venture/company? Since 2006 we have focused on turning Millstream from a 'web design company' into a product-based 'SaaS provid

Today we explore an exciting venture in the Online Video Platform, Ankoder (pronounced encoder). It was founded in 2006 by Rex Chung from Sydney, Australia. In a recent email-based interview with Rex Chung, he gave insights into his venture and how he is progressing with it. This is what he has to say: • Please tell us about your venture/company? We're more than just a white-label video platform. We provide a flexible API that allows developers to easily integrate videos on their site while keeping full control of the videos and encoding options. • Who are the people behind this and how it started? Ankoder is a product of RoRCraft, which was founded by Rex Chung in 2006. We started this project in-house in house since late 2007. We got this idea from thinking about how can we capitalise on the power of cloud computing. We've designed our application to automatically scale using Amazon's EC2 so that we can guarantee the videos don't need to wait in a queue, and we open

Today we explore an exciting venture in the Real Estate Industry - StreetAdvisor.com.au . It was co-founded in 2007 by Adam Spencer from Melbourne, Australia. In a recent email-based interview with Adam, he gave insights into his venture and how he is progressing with it. This is what he has to say: • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? My name is Adam Spencer, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of StreetAdvisor.com.au • Please tell us about your venture/company? StreetAdvisor.com.au is a website devoted to helping people find the best place to live, it’s as simple as that. We have reviews of streets, cities and neighbourhoods from all around the world written by locals in the area. We also have photos, videos, guidebooks, forums and much more. • Who are the people behind this and how it started? Jason Spencer (Co-Founder and co-CEO) and I came up with the idea for a website about helping people find the best place to live. It was an idea born out of frustration with o

In the ongoing coverage of exploring new startups coming out of Australia, Today we explore an emerging entrepreneur Isaac Forman who has set up two ventures, Linky and GymPrices . Linky is an exciting venture and it got some encouragement from Fred Wilson (see the comments section). In a recent email-based interview with Isaac, he gave insights into his venture and how he is progressing with it. This is what he has to say: • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? I have worked in web development for more than 10 years, and run my own company, Triplezero ( since 1998. Online ideas are a habit I can't break. I enjoy reading about them (and thinking 'I should've thought of that!'), seeing new ground being broken, or trying my own hand at online services. • What is the name of your venture/company? I have quite a few in progress, but two recent efforts are Linky and GymPrices . • Please tell us about your venture/company? Linky is ess

After Silicon Valley in US, if there is another place where innovation & entrepreneurship is flourishing, then it is Israel. The culture of start-ups & innovation is widespread across Israel considering the challenging & sometimes hostile environment they face there. Today we explore more about LocatioNet & its flagship service amazeGPs . In a recent email-based chat with co-founder, Ofer Tziperman of LocatioNet , he gave insights into the emerging opportunity in Location Based Services(LBS). • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? My name is Ofer Tziperman. I am the President and co-founder of LocatioNet . I have over 15 years of experience in the marketing of hi-tech products and with startup companies. • What is the name of your venture/company? LocatioNet Systems Ltd. This is the company name. Our flagship product today is the amAze service. • Please tell us about your venture/company? LocatioNet was established in 2000 and acquired Totem

In the ongoing coverage of exploring new startups coming out of Australia, Today we explore a new initiative by a young entrepreneur, Amir Nissen from Melbourne Australia, Student Entrepreneurs - Agents of Change In a recent email-based chat with Amir, he explained what motivated him to start this initiative. • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? Amir Nissen. I'm currently a fifth-year commerce/arts undergraduate at Melbourne uni. Interested in social entrepreneurship mainly, but also raising awareness of entrepreneurship, particularly amongst the student population. • Please tell us about your venture? We run a few initiatives aimed at promoting entrepreneurship on campus. These range from spotlighting some entrepreneurial students on our site to bringing successful entrepreneurs in to talk about their experiences. Our most recent event was 'Entrepreneurs Week' - comprising a series of seminars on various aspects of entrepreneurship, and an inn

In the ongoing coverage of exploring new startups coming out of Australia, Today we explore an exciting venture in the Real Estate Industry - HomePriceHistory.com.au . It was founded in 2008 by Robert Reith from Melbourne, Australia. In a recent email-based interview with Robert, he gave insights into his venture and how he is progressing with it. This is what he has to say: • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? My name is Robert Reith, and I am the Managing Director of HomePriceHistory.com Pty Ltd. I studied for an Arts/Information Management degree at Monash University and am currently also a director of R&D Knowledge Services, which resells the Claromentis Knowledge Management solution. • What is the name of your venture/company? HomePriceHistory.com Pty Ltd (incorporating the three domains in three countries - www.homepricehistory.com.a , www.homepricehistory.com and www.homepricehistory.co.uk ) • Please tell us about your venture/company? The idea

This is a guest post by Rajesh Jain, an entrepreneur based in Mumbai, India, and Founder and Managing Director of Netcore Solutions Pvt Ltd . He has put together his thoughts on the emerging opportunities in the Mobile domain especially focusing on India. Let's explore what he has to say about this emerging platform and the opportunity: The Shift from Internet 1 (Portals) to Internet 2 (Search) The early days of the Internet were all eyeballs and monetisation via banner (graphical) advertising. The business was about creating portals and destination sites like Yahoo and AOL were doing. There was also some eCommerce going via the likes of eBay and Amazon. These were significant opportunities but they paled into what was created by Google with the simplicity of paid search. Of course, Google did not create the base model - that was done by Overture (GoTo.com) which was later acquired by Yahoo. But Google refined it to perfection. Search captures intent - to find or buy. Google first