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Welcome to 33% Wallflowers of Web 2.0 in Australia

By Nick Hodge | June 6, 2007

(none of the above are wallflowers!)

Other com­ments:

• James Del­low, ChiefTech
• Ben Bar­ren

As people sub­scribed to my twitter.com/nickhodge feed exper­i­enced, I atten­ded the Web 2.0 Futures Con­fer­ence hos­ted by Ross Dawson at KPMG today.

Ross recently wrote an art­icle for Read/Write web on the Top 60 Web 2.0 applic­a­tions in Australia.

My ran­dom, assumptive break­down of the audi­ence of about 140 people:

• 10% < 25 years old, 80% gen-x, 10% baby boomers
• <20% female
• 45% of men in suits, 15% wear­ing ties
• 33% had money, 33% had ideas but no money, and the last 33% of us were wall­flowers watch­ing the first 66% in a subtle dance.

I met my first Web 2.0 celebrity (not includ­ing Microsoft’s Jeff Sandquist; but that’s being a little twee) — Richard Mac­Manus of Read/Write Web. I have a feel­ing he’s enjoy­ing the lat­ter slightly more than the former part of his blog (ie: more writ­ing than reading)

The first part of the day involved an inter­est­ing dis­cus­sion on what is Web 2.0, and what is Aus­tralia? Is the notion of bor­ders rel­ev­ant, any­way? My assess­ment is that lan­guage and/or cul­ture are greater than timezones and bor­ders. The “digital nat­ives” see bor­ders in dif­fer­ent ways than pre­vi­ous generations.

Being that there were many VC’s in the audi­ence, and many people want­ing their star­tup fun­ded: the dis­cus­sion around rev­enue mod­els was also quickly covered.

The high­light of the day were the 5 minute demon­stra­tions from the fol­low­ing Aus­tralian Web 2.0 companies:

• Omni­d­rive
• Tan­gler (hi Mick!)
• gnoos.com (hi Ben!)
• Scouta (in closed private beta)
• Atlas­sian with Confluence

Shout out hi to Bron­wen of http://www.perthnorg.com.au, Lach­lan “Hot Geek” Hardy.

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