[SiliconBeach] Re: App Development (android or iphone or whatever)

2011-06-09 Thread hoops
First, thanks Rob for the answer. Got the missing bit of the puzzle - proxy Geoff - good idea also about the proxy - SSL / RLS plays better with proxy. puting the 2 together, For other mobile developers , here is the approach (which is working for now, will see about other telcos' with

[SiliconBeach] Price list vendors in Australia ?

2011-06-09 Thread Ali
Hi All, I am working on a price comparison site and I am looking for price vendors who deliver (sell) daily product prices from various online stores (e.g., Woolworth, Coles, BigW, Wow1, etc.) Do you know any company offering such a service in Australia ? Another option I have is to write a

Re: [SiliconBeach] Price list vendors in Australia ?

2011-06-09 Thread Darren
Hi Ali First good market to compete in, I was just looking at one website that does the same thing you have planned. I think it was www.shopbot.com.au (could be wrong). How ever from a SEO background, see if you can develop a manual system where the user (consumer) puts in info of

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: App Development (android or iphone or whatever)

2011-06-09 Thread Damian Mendis
Hi Hoops, Some thoughts: - not all services are equal, even on the same carrier. Eg. Consumer iPhone service vs tethered Blackberry (enterprise) vs busines grade USB/internal modem services. - try providing/setting the high priority DSCP bit, even though it may get discarded by some carriers

[SiliconBeach] Re: Price list vendors in Australia ?

2011-06-09 Thread Jeromy Evans
Hi Ali, Chris Hitchen from http://www.getprice.com.au/ was/is on this list. They were a startup before being acquired by News in 2010. There's countless sites like these in the technology niches, just search for ram price australia to be overwhelmed with them. A challenge for you is getting

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Is social networking commercially viable in Australia?

2011-06-09 Thread Michael Harries
Nicely put. On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Geoff McQueen - Hiive Systems geoff.mcqu...@hiivesystems.com wrote: rant To get to 1 million users for an internet product in the US, you need to convince one in 260 people to come on board (and keep them coming back), as there are 260M

[SiliconBeach] Re: Price list vendors in Australia ?

2011-06-09 Thread Matthew Ho
Yes, Google =p I saw a demo of Google Commerce search, and as part of this they demo'd Google Shopping back in Feb. So I'd def consider this before building your service. It looks like a getprice service. To put it crudely, it sucks in pricing data from other websites and spits it out when you

RE: [SiliconBeach] Price list vendors in Australia ?

2011-06-09 Thread Dominique du Maurier
Hi Ali, Have you seen this site? http://www.lasoo.com.au/ -Original Message- From: silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com [mailto:silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Darren Sent: Thursday, 9 June 2011 9:24 PM To: silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com Subject:

[SiliconBeach] Google Subscriptions

2011-06-09 Thread Justin Tauber
What a relief! Google's 30% cut might make sense for an online newspaper, but for other forms of subscription, it's ridiculous. In Apple's new App Store Review Guidelines out this week, it appears the company has backtracked on its earlier plans to strictly enforce how mobile application

Re: [SiliconBeach] Google Subscriptions

2011-06-09 Thread Darren
Hi Justin Curious, what if a publiser sells his or hers own ad space. I mean they don't use Admob, or those DPC offers (Download Per Click) Just a plain old fashion agreement, advertise on my app for $200 per day etc. Would that be allowed? Apple wouldn't get a cut! Or would they? Sent

Re: [SiliconBeach] Price list vendors in Australia ?

2011-06-09 Thread Dylan Jay
Lasoo is very clever technology. I've searched for things to buy on google before and lasoo as brought in recent specials from paper catalogs into my search results. It's a shame they haven't done more with social media to boost their profile. --- Dylan Jay Technical Solutions Manager