[SiliconBeach] Semantic web start-ups

2010-08-16 Thread Matt Moore
Hi, I'm interested in Australian start-ups with a focus on semantic technologies. Is there anyone out there? This is for an article I'm putting together that will come out later in the year. Cheers, Matt Moore +61 423 784 504 m...@innotecture.com.au Sent from my iPhone -- You received t

[SiliconBeach] Welcome to Port 80: "Usability for Startups" by Langoor!

2010-08-16 Thread Karl
We have the pleasure to introduce Lisa Herrod who will talk about Usability for Startups. All startups have challenges and obstacles they have to work around, not least funding constraints, but that doesn't mean a quality user experience strategy can't be implemented. In fact, with tight budgets a

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Hiring a coder in Australia

2010-08-16 Thread Keith Lang
I believe Atlassian had no shortage of applicants in their recent 'get 32' drive. Perhaps some useful approaches: http://www.atlassian.com/32/get-in.jsp Keith On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:03 PM, arcwhite wrote: > I'm currently working at SitePoint.com, and we're on the search for > two new full-t

[SiliconBeach] Re: Hiring a coder in Australia

2010-08-16 Thread arcwhite
I'm currently working at SitePoint.com, and we're on the search for two new full-time devs (A PHP developer and an iPhone app developer). We're having an extraordinary amount of trouble just getting resumes through the door; we've had recruiters contact us and describe the current IT environment as

Re: [SiliconBeach] Trampoline Melbourne

2010-08-16 Thread Sean Marshall
Hi Pat As a guy from Sydney, this sounds like a really interesting concept. Need any help bringing it up here? Cheers Sean On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Pat Allan wrote: > Hi everyone > > Apologies for the event-spam, but I'm hoping many of you will find this > interesting: > > I don't thi

Re: [SiliconBeach] Abbreviation for the word 'éntre preneur' (Frivolousness warning)

2010-08-16 Thread Ben Sand
founder? On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:24 PM, SoccerFit wrote: > With apologies for the frivolous nature of this question...but is > there an abbreviation, nickname, or acceptable shorthand for the word > entrepreneur...like software engineers are geeks...musicians are > musos...it's a lot of typing

Re: [SiliconBeach] Abbreviation for the word 'éntre preneur' (Frivolousness warning)

2010-08-16 Thread nickhac
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RE: [SiliconBeach] Abbreviation for the word 'éntre preneur' (Frivolousness warning)

2010-08-16 Thread Geoff McQueen - Hiive Systems
Crazy ;-) -Original Message- From: silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com [mailto:silicon-beach-austra...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of SoccerFit Sent: Monday, 16 August 2010 9:25 PM To: Silicon Beach Australia Subject: [SiliconBeach] Abbreviation for the word 'éntrepreneur' (Frivolous

[SiliconBeach] Abbreviation for the word 'éntrepren eur' (Frivolousness warning)

2010-08-16 Thread SoccerFit
With apologies for the frivolous nature of this question...but is there an abbreviation, nickname, or acceptable shorthand for the word entrepreneur...like software engineers are geeks...musicians are musos...it's a lot of typing...anyone got any ideas? Liam -- You received this message because

[SiliconBeach] Introduction

2010-08-16 Thread Ben Leslie
Hi all, Time for me to stop lurking. I've just recently taken the plunge, quitting my full-time job as V.P. Engineering of Open Kernel Labs (as NICTA spin-out), to do my own thing. Right now I'm providing consulting services to help fund/bootstrap some other projects / ideas. I'm looking forward