[SiliconBeach] Re: "The Website" - Ideas for siliconbeachaustralia.org

2009-06-01 Thread Tyrone Castillo
> Can you explain what you would get out of a forum? How would that be > different than this mailing list? (there is already a web-interface > with threading support for this) Thought that the website would replace this group so it would be a place for people to post questions and answers. > A

[SiliconBeach] Re: "The Website" - Ideas for siliconbeachaustralia.org

2009-06-01 Thread mmp1
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[SiliconBeach] Re: "The Website" - Ideas for siliconbeachaustralia.org

2009-06-01 Thread Ryan Cross
Thanks for the feature discussion Tyrone. Can you explain what you would get out of a forum? How would that be different than this mailing list? (there is already a web-interface with threading support for this) Also, what types of things would you do with a wiki? To help jump start other ideas

[SiliconBeach] Re: "The Website" - Ideas for siliconbeachaustralia.org

2009-06-01 Thread Peter Griffyn
Ning is simple, will put faces to text and can be established quickly. Could be a good solution whilst you build out something specific? On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Tyrone Castillo wrote: > If you're doing it as an exercise in Drupal, perhaps as a learning project > for a bigger one, then fi

[SiliconBeach] Re: "The Website" - Ideas for siliconbeachaustralia.org

2009-06-01 Thread Tyrone Castillo
If you're doing it as an exercise in Drupal, perhaps as a learning project for a bigger one, then fine. Ning would be fantastic for this unless there's already functionality that has been discussed offline. Anyway, if you are going to build it then I would look for a forum, a wiki and a Twi

[SiliconBeach] Re: "The Website" - Ideas for siliconbeachaustralia.org

2009-06-01 Thread Mark Mansour
BuddyPress? or a tailored WordPress? Surely there are enough plugins to do what you want. Actually what do you want!? On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Nick HaC wrote: > +2 for Ning > > 2009/6/2 Ryan Cross > > >> I will likely be building something custom based on Drupal, but I'd >> like to hea

[SiliconBeach] Re: "The Website" - Ideas for siliconbeachaustralia.org

2009-06-01 Thread Nick HaC
+2 for Ning 2009/6/2 Ryan Cross > > I will likely be building something custom based on Drupal, but I'd > like to hear more about specific features and ideas you'd like to have > rather than particular services/technologies to use. > > I.e. If you're thinking about a social network on Ning, what

[SiliconBeach] Re: "The Website" - Ideas for siliconbeachaustralia.org

2009-06-01 Thread Tyrone Castillo
+1 to Ning idea. Saves time and easy to get up and running. Tyrone On 02/06/2009, at 3:35 PM, Peter Griffyn wrote: > Silicon Beach Ning Network? > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Ryan Cross > wrote: > > Its been about a year since the website was started and we still > haven't done anythi

[SiliconBeach] Re: "The Website" - Ideas for siliconbeachaustralia.org

2009-06-01 Thread Ryan Cross
I will likely be building something custom based on Drupal, but I'd like to hear more about specific features and ideas you'd like to have rather than particular services/technologies to use. I.e. If you're thinking about a social network on Ning, what type of features would you want out of it? W

[SiliconBeach] Re: "The Website" - Ideas for siliconbeachaustralia.org

2009-06-01 Thread Peter Griffyn
Silicon Beach Ning Network? On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Ryan Cross wrote: > > Its been about a year since the website was started and we still > haven't done anything with it. There were previous plans to build up a > site at one of the startup camps, but it got overruled with another > idea

[SiliconBeach] "The Website" - Ideas for siliconbeachaustralia.org

2009-06-01 Thread Ryan Cross
Its been about a year since the website was started and we still haven't done anything with it. There were previous plans to build up a site at one of the startup camps, but it got overruled with another idea so there it sits. (w00t, ActivityHorizon!) I have been talking to Elias about what might

[SiliconBeach] Re: business plan competition?

2009-06-01 Thread Ollie (sydney)
Hi everyone. Been following Silicon Beach for a while (but this is my first comment, will introduce myself another time). Has anyone been part of the Peter Farrell Challenge Cup part of ICE (Innovation Commercialisation Entrepreneurship) yearly competition that is open to UNSW members and their

[SiliconBeach] Re: business plan competition?

2009-06-01 Thread Jonathan Clarke
Thought you guys should be aware of this concept from an Irish software company. Something similar here in Australia would be nice. http://iqprize.ie Here's the blurb: *Why* are we doing this? There’s plenty of bad news about. But we’re not paying attention. We believe that Ireland is brimfu

[SiliconBeach] Re: business plan competition?

2009-06-01 Thread Elias Bizannes
Wow Richard - that disgusts me those students were disqualified. I was going to say a business plan competition is not really of value in the tech world, but hearing those stories alone compels me to want to do something better. I bumped into a colleague yesterday and she as telling me about a pro

[SiliconBeach] Re: business plan competition?

2009-06-01 Thread Richard Hayes
Yes, there a number at various universities. One of the largest is the Moot Corp http://www.mootcorp.org/ Others include the Peter Farrell Cup Challenge which is mainly biotech. I lead UTS into their first team into the Moot Corp but we could not convince the judges that an free online accounti

[SiliconBeach] Re: Niche Search problems & finding Help

2009-06-01 Thread Samuel Bishop
Wasnt trying to take pot shots. And to be honest i wish i was in their shoes. I was cutting my rant short there because i know i cant claim to be better. Its just hard to keep the frustration at other people being given 10 -25 Million for something thats been done before. It slips out every

[SiliconBeach] Re: Niche Search problems & finding Help

2009-06-01 Thread Nathan de Vries
Hi Samuel, I know you said up-front that your email was going to be a rant, but I think you need to take a deep breath and consider for a moment that not everyone thinks your ideas are as valuable as you do. Ideas are a dime-a-dozen unless you can bring them to life, and you've said yours

[SiliconBeach] Re: Niche Search problems & finding Help

2009-06-01 Thread Samuel Bishop
From what i can gather, the firehose and all their other outputs are UTF-8. ... You just have no way to search by the unicode or other symbols. So twitter search in language using chars other than the standard ascii alphanumerics, is useless... Somehow this feels like it deserves a :-( lol

[SiliconBeach] Re: De-lurking

2009-06-01 Thread Jax
Unfortunately I'm in Sydney Samuel... but I plan to take the scooter across the Nullabor next March along with 2000 other motorcyclists for the Ulysses AGM. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia m

[SiliconBeach] Re: Niche Search problems & finding Help

2009-06-01 Thread Geoff McQueen - Hiive Systems
My (very uninformed) guess: they support Unicode in the sending, saving and reading point, but the escape out of it in the search components, possibly because the search stuff is from a company they acquired. I wonder if the firehose provides the content in Unicode? From: silicon-beach-australi

[SiliconBeach] Re: Niche Search problems & finding Help

2009-06-01 Thread Samuel Bishop
Interesting but it didnt take long to notice they have the same limitations i wanted to work around as well. you cant search for something like '25%', you just get results for '25' which is a major limitation really. Why on earth twitter bothered supporting unicode i have no idea. You cant sear

[SiliconBeach] Re: De-lurking

2009-06-01 Thread Samuel Bishop
As a fellow 'ideas person' at heart. Id love to have coffee some time. Wouldn't bee in Perth by any chance? On 31/05/2009, at 2:53 PM, Jax wrote: > > I think I've wandered into the wrong sandbox... a Baby Boomer in a > room full of Gen Y! > > In my previous incarnations I was a travel agent, a t