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Think it all happens in Silicon Valley? You’re wrong! – Skitch By LaurenBarber on Tuesday September 7th, 2010   11 comments

This week we are back finding out all about Melbourne startups and the Aussie tech scene.  We continue with our Melbourne Silicon Beach Series, in conjunction with The Next Web Australia, and you can watch our third episode below:

Australia; it’s not just about sandy beaches, beers and bbqs, Melbourne (and Sydney) have thriving digital and tech communities and this month, entrepreneur and technology journalist Hermione Way and her team at Techflufftv will be exploring the startup scene interviewing the hottest startups for The Next Web Australia’s Melbourne Silicon Beach Series.

Sponsored by Kodak, Silicon Beach Australia and The Next Web, Techfluff.tv decided to delve a little deeper into Melbourne’s startup scene and video interviewed ten of these companies.

This week we caught up with Cris Pearson from Skitch. Cris talks to us about the easy-to-share webservice Skitch provides and his experience of being an entrepreneur in the Melbourne tech community.

Stay tuned for next week as we will bring you an interview from 99designs.

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Because iPhones and water don’t mix: Waterproof Kodak Playsport Camera By hermione on Thursday September 2nd, 2010   9 comments

I was really looking forward to reviewing Kodak’s new Playsport video camera in Croatia last week- The water there is crystal clear and it would have been perfect conditions to test its underwater recording capabilities (up to 3 meters/10 feet). My last Kodak had a USB charger that was built into the camera and plugged straight into my laptop for charging, but alas the Playsport needs an extra cable to charge it and I had forgotten it, making it impossible for me to charge the battery and test it:(

One of my holiday buddies was recording with her new iPhone4 which has the same recording capabilities as the Playsport (1080p full HD) so all was not lost… but disaster struck when the boat carrying her and her iPhone collided with another boat and the iPhone was flung two meters deep into the ocean. It was of course retrieved and dried, but to no avail, the iPhone was dead.

Such a sad story, If only the Playsport had a built-in USB charger just like my Zi8, (which I am sure they will bring out on the next model) I could have reviewed the camera in beautiful Croatia, against the backdrop of the sunset, rather than my crappy bathroom. Sorry about the bland taps, but the point is that it really does work underwater, we just need a cable-less version next time please Kodak!

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What’s hot on Facebook? FDGL August edition By Chloe on Thursday September 2nd, 2010   6 comments

Last week, Facebook Developers Garage London was back, with more tech you can shake a Facebook app at! Held in the heart of London’s Silicon Roundabout, at TechHub, attendees heard from Simon Cross, Executive Product Manager at BBC ID & Social (basically one of the top developers), who spoke about blending TV with social media platforms with the launch of the new BBC iPlayer in the next few weeks. He wowed the audience with some amazing figures, such as 130 million requests for video/audio per month, 1.4 million users per day and wait for it… it makes up 10% of the UK bandwidth!

Regular speaker, Iskandar Najmuddin from Nudge ran through what is new on the platform, namely Facebook Places (what everyone is talking about!) and Dave Nattriss gave an interesting dissection of what is hot on Facebook right now – apparently Farmville still (60 million people like it!) and it’s mostly social gaming applications that are the most popular on Facebook – so if you are thinking of creating an app for Facebook we definitely suggest you should add an element of competition to the service ;)

There was also a Hackathon Update from some of the guys who presented their app ideas to The Zuck earlier this year. Todd Chaffee’s Six Degrees of Separation app caused a bit of buzz and Iskandar made the interesting observation that an application like this could merge a user’s personal and professional online persona to the point that there would be no need for Linkedin – What do others think?

You can watch the full video report below:

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Jack vs Mark at the Bootlaw/Chinwag Summer BBQ! By Chloe on Thursday September 2nd, 2010   6 comments

Last week our sister video production company, Newspepper headed to the annual Bootlaw & Chinwag Summer BBQ to find out what’s hot in the world of tech in London!

We asked what people thought about Facebook Places – soon to be launched in the UK – what has been the most exciting technology development this year and possible the most important question for the ladies in tech – Jack Doresy vs Mark Zuckerberg; Who would you like to spend a bit of personal social networking time with?

Find out the winner in our video report below:

Newspepper Report – Chinwag and Bootlaw Summer BBQ from Newspepper on Vimeo.

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