Born inSydney, Fred Schebesta is an internet entrepreneur whose latest venture, Finder.com.au, aspires to shake up the online comparison industry inAustralia. Fred was inspired to enter the financial comparison space when he realised the need for Australians to compare financial…
Tag: WEB 2.0
Is Crowdsourcing becoming overcrowded?
According to Crowdsourcing.org, venture Capitalists invested more than $280 million in 35 Crowdsourcing companies in 2011. This was confirmed by a comprehensive report published in Ferburay 2012 produced by Massolution a research firm specializing in crowdsourcing solutions. After data were…
Australian employees anonymously review their bosses, online
Last week, it was with pleasure that I caught up with Justin Babet. I have known him for years while he was the MD of Xpand, a recruitment firm with activities in Australia and APAC. But this time it wasn’t…
3 million members for Linkedin Australia!
Linkedin Australia has just reached 3M members! The level of interest from Australians had prompted the network to open, after Sydney and Melbourne, a third office in Perth. I still remember visiting their (Serviced) office 2 years ago at Australia…
Is Google+ failing?
I remember, one month after its launch in June 2011, Google+ was very proud to announce 25 million subscribers. At that time, industry observers were predicting the huge success of Google’s social offspring over Facebook: “In comparison, it took three…
Web 3.0: it’s all about data
If you search for “Web 3.0” in a search engine, the most common definition you will find will be related to the Semantic Web. But what is the semantic web? Semanticweb.org tells us: “The Semantic Web is the extension of…