+1 I also met Tim down in Melbourne. The guy is good value. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Elias Bizannes <elias.bizan...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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! 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