The 2web Crew #21: Outsourcing and flame wars
Join Norg Media’s Bronwen Clune, Scouta’s Richard Giles, TechCrunch’s Duncan Riley and briefly Tangler’s Mick Lubinskas for a chat on
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Flame Wars in the week that was (including exclusive comment from
Duncan Riley)
Instablogs funding and Citizen Journalism
Web 2.0 newspeak and the need for better marketing
Web 2.0 Outsourcing
Exclusive news on a new startup from Mick Lubinskas
Lobbying Government
We don’t drop the C word once, instead coming up with a great new
substitute word!
And remember, 2web records live on Wednesday on Ustream here (add
link: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/2web-crew-live), 1pm Australian
EST, 11am AWST
March 22nd, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Ok I’m going to start the Australian Online Start-up Alliance. AOSA. And I’m annointing myself President. I need a board. Who wants in?
March 22nd, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Oh and on the subject of outsourcing to India, I just concluded my second outsourced project (to India that is) tonight and I’m very happy with the results. My first one was a disaster, but this time I’m using elance.com, much better management process.
March 23rd, 2008 at 6:28 pm
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March 23rd, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Yeah, sure. Sounds good.
There’s nothing organised, but I’ve always seen the Aussie start-ups in an (unspoken) alliance of some sort.
March 23rd, 2008 at 10:52 pm
I don’t think it has so much to do with racism (is Australian a race?), although most Americans think everyone from Australia is either Steve Irwin or Crocodile Dundee, but with the expectation that when you are writing for a global audience, you are expected to keep that audience in mind.
It’s the main reason I keep my writing persona separate from my “general” online persona. My writing persona demands some iota of professionalism, which includes at least an attempt at awareness of cultural differences. The personal persona can cuss all it wants with no one the wiser.
You, on the other hand, are everywhere. It increases the brand identity of you (I note you have your very own Valleywag tag recently), but is also going to increase that criticism.
As for Americans, most of us cuss like sailors. Just not in any sort of professional-esque setting.
March 24th, 2008 at 1:54 am
Hi, I am CEO of Instablogs.
Thats was an interesting podcast. I need to check out you guys more often now.
But regarding few things you asked about Instablogs 12,000 reg. members, and revenue figures, etc.
Duncan, I don`t have any idea from where did you get hold of our PPT, but its an old one.
Right now we have many more registered members (will be getting to 20K by next month), and so is the revenue :)
We started getting CitJs only from Jan, even right now the number is getting close to 200.
Also India, is no longer a country with cheap labor. The tech guys, writers are really smart in India, and by no means inexpensive. The real estate prices are just touching the sky. Even if you spend few minutes on the site, I am sure you will agree that our tech team in not a novice.
March 28th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Duncan,
I agree that, at least for now, the majority of the content on FriendFeed is an aggregation of tweets from users’ Twitter feeds. I like the idea of FriendFeed, but for now, I like jumping into the actual communities like Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr… instead of commenting through the aggregation of those platforms.