Australia Archive

Last weekend Sydney, Australia held the second StartupCamp. Ross Dawson has a good recap of the event and his thoughts on each of the presented ideas.

Here are the ideas that were presented:

• ActivityHorizon – helps you find activities based on your requirements
• EpicTweet – posts the best and funniest tweets each day
• MyPetNeedsLove – pet dating service – yea I guess cats and dogs want to hook up and get some digits too!
• GiveDo – a way to give your search earnings to charity
• ThreeFeeds – social aggregation sharing
• iTrafficApp – iPhone application for road conditions and traffic information

Here’s a video from the event with each of the presenter’s discussing their applications:

Last week we published a list of the top 10 Web applications in Russia. Today, Australia is out with their list by Ross Dawson of Future Exploration Network. Here are the key takeaways from the report:

• A much larger scene this year than last
• Many major success stories
• Many ideas start but many fail as well – Russ says the most promising path to success is through failure.
• Overseas action – many companies who gain ground in Australia either move completely overseas to the U.S. (mostly Silicon Valley) or move for a temporary period. Russ notes that there’s also movement to East Asia, India and Europe.
• Lots of clones

Here are the top 10 – check out the full list:

• mig33
• Confluence
• Red Bubble
• 3eep
• Engagd
• MyVirtualHome
• Booking Angel
• Gnoos.com.au
• Scouta
• RetailMeNot

You should check out the list – lots of great Web applications. I hope more bloggers in countries outside the U.S. will create lists like this. It’s awesome to see more innovation and thought from outside the valley.