Next - It's web take 2.0

It's about a month later than I'd originally hoped, but my feature on in business in Australia Web 2,0 made it into the Sydney Morning Herald and Age newspapers today. As a writer on both technology and marketing, the whole concept of a more interactive web experience is a fascinating one for me. Unfortunately we had to trim back the content a little for space considerations, but you can check out what was printed here. I also need to send out a little extra link love to the lads at Tangler, whose web address fell out of the version currently online - am still working to get it back in.

The other part that got trimmed back was my full list of the most prominent business-ish web 2.0 businesses in Australia, which I've pasted below. Anyone who isn't included but feels they should have been, please abuse me in the comments section below ...

ANZ Web 2.0 companies:

3eep: Sports social networking site: www.3eep.com
Atlassian: Wiki software: www.atlassian.com
Bluepulse: Mobile content and social networking – www.bluepulse.com
Booking Angel: Online reservation system – www.bookingangel.com
dlook: Online business directory - www.dlook.com.au
Eurekster: community search engines - www.eurekster.com
Gnoos: Blog search engine – www.gnoos.com
MyCyberTwin: Web response system - www.mycybertwin.com
Minti: Online parenting advice service – www.minti.com
Mor(f) Dynamics: Human-to-computer interaction technology – www.mojikan.com
Omnidrive: Online storage service – www.omnidrive.com
Outback Online: 3D immersive environments – www.outbackonline.com
Particls: Web tracking service – www.particls.com
Quotify : Product and service online referral service – www.quotify.com\
Rave About It: Recommendation service - www.raveaboutit.com.au
Remember The Milk: Online task management – www.rememberthemilk.com
Studentface: Social networking for students - www.studentface.com
Tangler: Online discussion forums – www.tangler.com
The Podcast Network: Podcast production and distribution service – www.thepodcastnetwork.com
TigerSpike: Mobile user-generated content platform -
VastPark: 3D modelling site and immersive environments - www.vastpark.com

Comments

[Mark]

Very interesting article Brad. It is extremely pleasing to see some Aussie startups getting decent mainstream media coverage :)
Many thanks for the mention!

Mark

[Marc Lehmann]

NETaccounts Online Accounting :)

Great read btw. Grant from WWF/Eskimo is our CTO!

[Mick Liubinskas]

That's a seriously solid list. Some good stuff coming out of here. Anyone from Govt watching who wants to nurture this?

[John Allsopp]

Great coverage Brad. Might I suggest

Melbourne based RedBubble

And while it's not a Web 2.0- company per se, the Web Directions conference (I am an organizer), which both has plenty of web 2.0 focussed content, and uses plenty of Web 2.0 tech at the site and the conference itself (real time flickr feeds, the WebConnections online community app). OK, so mybe it is a Web 2.0 company ;-)

[Meg]

Hi Brad

Thanks for the dLook mention here anyway :)

[steve]

Brad, you didnt mention Peepel.com which is a new Australian startup in the office 2.0 space.

[Matt]

Hi Brad

Thanks very much for the mention of Minti - shame the SMH did not give it a link but we are very happy to be in there :)

The company behind Minti is Vibee Capital (www.vibecapital.com) and we are licensing the tech out as well as building new ranked advice communities we wholly own. The first licensed partner is www.buildinginlondon.com

If you want to catch up feel free to email me :)

regards
Matt
Minti Co-founder

[Benjamin Penney]

Hi,

How could you leave once:fabrik (http://www.oncefabrik.com/) off this list? It's a complete, desktop application-like, web-based ERP application suited to graphic design firms. The company (once:technologies) is based in Australia. After a few minutes in the online demo., I'm sure you'd agree that it clearly differentiates itself from other (service based) offerings in the market.