But aha - you get completely different results when you concatenate the words http://twendly.com/?q=siliconbeach :)
As a sidenote, I want to personal vouch Tim as one of Australia's leading enterprise technology thinkers. I've worked very closely with him at PwC and know him well. Tim is also an externality of what I think are the impacts of initiatives like Silicon Beach and bootupcamp - proving my hypothesis that culture and community matter more than anything else to build our startup scene. He quit his cushy job (deputy CTO at a organisation making $1.4 billion a year and Australia's 13th largest private company) after attending a bootupcamp. The mailing list this last year has encouraged the inner entrepreneur and plugged him into the scene, and at bootupcamp he met his co-founder Alex Dong, a guy that already exited very successfully from his previous startup in China. Awesome! Elias Bizannes http://eliasbizannes.com On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Tim Bull <tbull...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Thought I'd re-introduce myself - I've been a long time lurker in this > community (I was one of the early sign ups when Elias launched it). > > Recently, I quite my job of 15 years at PwC and co-founded > http://www.binaryplex.com with Alex Dong - we are focussed on the > problem of expertise location. Initially we thought this would > primarily be an Enterprise play and have collected some interest in > this space along the way, but we are wondering now if there might be a > consumer play here instead. > > We've created a new Twitter search engine http://twendly.com which is > indexing Twitter users and using our underlying people search engine > to demonstrate the concept. > > I'd really appreciate anyone here who could spare a few minutes to > have a quick look and a poke around at it and let us know your > thoughts either through the feedback link on the site, or e-mail me at > tim.b...@binaryplex.com. > > To give you a taste, a search for silicon beach > http://twendly.com/?q=silicon+beach > reveals these are the people who've tweeted most about it over the > past 12 months. If you view this on the site you'll see both a > relevancy rank and a histogram. > > #1 Mick Liubinskas @liubinskas | Australia Web business > builder for > Pollenizer - global, early stage tech, services company. > > #2 Pieter Peach @ppeach | Melbourne, Australia Learning to > build > things. Doctor intrigued by the web & decision making. Founder, > SimpleSponsorship.com. > > #3 Mike Casey @mikecasey | ÜT: -33.923693,151.19054 Director > at > GradConnection, Tech startup fan, HR tourist, internet analytics > machine. Yet another R1b1b2a1a2f > > #4 Ian C @aussie_ian | Sydney I love travel, the web, and > music! > > #5 Daniel Purchas @danpurchas | iPhone: -33.893589,151.146988 > Director of a Graduate Recruitment Online Marketing Company > > #6 John Haining @johnhaining | Sydney, Australia Dad, Business > Owner, Entrepreneur, Dashing Geek :) > > #7 ryancross @ryancross | Sydney, Australia a geek, duh! > > #8 Tom Voirol @voirol | Sydney Online strategy, social media > and > user experience consultant. Husband, MBA student, kitty litter box > cleaner. > > #9 IPitch Australia @IPitchAU | Sydney, Australia Where > Australian > entrepreneurs and startups come to pitch ideas, find investment and > get the latest industry news > > #10 socialmediameme @socialmediameme | Social Media Strategies > > > Would appreciate any feedback you could give us and suggestions on > which direction we should take this idea - our gut instinct is that > there IS a play here in the consumer space, but your thoughts and > feedback would really help. > > Cheers, > > Tim > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > Australia mailing list. > > Guidelines on discussion: http://tr.im/ujKF > > No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://tr.im/ujMm > > To post to this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<silicon-beach-australia%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discussion: http://tr.im/ujKF No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://tr.im/ujMm To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
