Jetlag

Jetlag is a bitch. I didn’t feel it heading to Canada but coming back to Australia I’m feeling it. So far I haven’t managed to sleep past 5:30 AM yet. In honour of my tired state I offer up a mixed bag blog post today…

I was walking the downtown streets of Brisbane city today for the first time since getting back to Australia. I was heading down Adelaide St, passing the many bus shelters and I noticed the ads where moving. Yep they have installed sliding ads so each bus shelter rotates between two ads rather than just a static single ad. The movement tends to catch your eye too. Smart move advertising company but when did little Brisbane get so cosmo.

This one for all those Australian young entrepreneurs out there – Chris Khoo, one of the guys that manages YNOT in Brisbane (that’s Young Network Of enTrepreneurs) has moved the forums to their own domain at www.youngentrepreneur.com.au. Check it out for some good local Aussie business chat.

The Bnoopy Blog has been updated with an interesting article about The Long Tail Effect. This is a blog from Joe Kraus, the co-founder of Excite. It’s not updated too often but when it does it usually has some gems of content and obviously the reputation of the founder helps to popularise it too. His entry, The long tail of software. Millions of Markets of Dozens, explains an interesting trend. He breaks down the concept in detail so I won’t recount it here – you can check it out for yourself.

I have been chatting to a new friend that manages the site YabbyLand, which is a very ambitious Elance-like service. The thing I’m most impressed with at the site is the ‘flavour‘ and feel. It’s well themed with some neat character graphics that help you use the site. They have a good system in place but like a lot of new Internet business they face the problem of convincing people to use the service. They are quite dedicated to the project so I’m sure given enough time and persistence it will take off.

Continuing with the Skype theme I’ve been running – I’ve been really getting interested in all things Skype and the Skype Journal is a great blog source for all the latest news in the Skype world. It really hit home how much of an impact Skype is having when I found that both my parents are using Skype, but not just to keep up with me while I was in Canada. My parents, while being reasonably computer savvy (for their age, heh) aren’t quick to adopt new technology. The fact that they have learnt to use Skype and recruited their friends onto Skype shows that no matter what generation you belong to, Skype is accessible. Killer App anyone? This thing is going to be huge.

Yaro Starak
Young Entrepreneur