I’ve been living in the United States for almost a year now, and there are a few services that I use very regularly that would do fantastically well if someone were to bring them to Australia. It’s been a while since I’ve been home, so someone could have started these already, but here is the [...]
April 12, 2009
amazon, australia, car sharing, craigslist, ebay, fandango, Google, grandcentral, hulu, mint, muni, netflix, phonetag, threadless, voicemail
Launched at Startup Camp Australia last weekend, uTag is a new service aimed at rewarding users for the value they pass onto their online social networks. At its core, it is a URL shortening service – the difference is that uTag place a banner ad frame on top of the redirected website, sharing revenue with [...]
September 10, 2008
australia, facebook, social network, startup camp, startup camp australia, twitter, utag
When the opportunity to move to the United States first came up, the number one potential issue in my mind was obtaining a working visa. The U.S. Embassy website makes the process seem incredibly complex, and the only first-hand accounts of the visa application process made it sound very hard and daunting. Plus, these accounts [...]
June 9, 2008
australia, e3, h3, immigrant, labor condition application, lca, united states, visa, visapoint
I have been using the new Brightkite location-aware social network (invite-only at this point) a lot over the last few days, and one of the very common questions I hear is how I do check-ins from my mobile phone, since at this point only U.S. carriers are supported for their SMS service. The (not so) [...]
April 29, 2008
australia, brightkite, email, mms, Mobile, outside, SMS, u.s., usa
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