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I see you've stumbled on to my humble home on the net, Drive:Activated. My name's Sam, I'm an ambitious and driven uni student, residing in Melbourne, Australia, wanting to make my mark on our world. This is my site, which is mainly just my blog and some other bits. There's no definite theme to my blog, just anything that interests me, and currently that's web trends, startups, ideas and cool stuff. Check it out, leave me a comment, click on 'Who is this?' to find out more about me, or drop me a line by clicking on 'Let's Talk'. Hope you enjoy it!
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...with strings attached, of course. You didn't really think the industry that has been jumping up and down about piracy is suddenly going to do an about-face and go to the other extreme, did you? There'd be a greater chance of pigs flying if you ask me. I've been checking out a service called...
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I posted this on the aus-dotnet mailing list a few weeks ago, but didn't get many responses so I'm gonna repost it here and see how it goes: The list seems a bit slow this week, probably because all you guys are still recovering from Code Camp, or have decided to use your sick leave to take advantage...
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Over at TechCrunch, there's a post about a new startup, Pairwise . It's premise is to rework the personality tests with pictures instead of questions. Funded by Y Combinator , it's actually surprisingly accurate. Some of the pictures however, are a bit disturbing - they seem to have a fetish for women...
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Was raining today (a rare occurrance in Melbourne recently) so I was traversing from building to building when I came across this on the IT building's noticeboard: I know there probably are other startups coming out from Monash, but this is the first evidence I've seen so far. The guy's email indicates...
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I've had beta access to scrybe for a while, but haven't had time to complete this post til now. What's scrybe? It's a cool new web app alternative for Outlook. But there's heaps of these already out there, including one from all three of the big companies, i.e. Google Calendar , Yahoo Calendar and Windows...
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Startups are popping up everywhere, but many won't survive. Why? Because they have no business model, or are completely dependent on Google AdSense (there's more that you think - make an effort to unblock Google ads from your vision next time you visit them). The freshview guys, creators of Campaign...
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Microsoft has started a new site specifically aimed at reaching out to startups at microsoftstartupzone.com (10 bucks to those who can guess what the site's called). It links up all the various Microsoft resources spread across its many web presences together on one site, making it a one-stop-shop for...
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I got sent this article from a mate (thanks Jeff), so I was obliged to read it . http://www.pluginaweek.org/2006/12/14/do-your-first-startup-while-youre-still-a-student/ It's a pretty good article, and addresses most of the reasons why I reckon now's the best time to screw around, startup, and have fun...
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Book cover from Amazon Founders at Work: Stories of Startups Early Days was published in January this year, but I forgot about it so here's the catch up post. I'm not a big fan of reading startup stories, because I reckon it draws me into the blackhole of inaction, along with reading how-to-startup guides...
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Mike, the co-founder of Atlassian has written a post about the lack of big and successful Aussie global web 2.0 startups , making some good points in it. There's also a nice discussion in the comments too, giving some other points including some interesting ones about the state of our legal system and...