Posts Tagged ‘perth’

Perth Sites in the Webby’s

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

The Perth International Arts Festival website, done by the clever starfish at, um, Clever Starfish has received a nomination for Best Events Website. They are up against some big names, including the BBC, Mercedes Benz and Lollapalooza, so this is great news. Congrats to Kay and team.

And in the Honorees section for News Sites there is PerthNorg, run by Bronwen Clune. Once again it’s a fantastic site that is really pushing up against some of the established players in the market, and (I’m assuming) a fraction of the budget.

So, as someone said on twitter, “Go Team Perth!”

_Update: Cross posted at Spin Technologies

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Scouta

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Even though I’ve had an account for a few months, I’ve only just really started looking into Scouta, an audio and video recommendation service that was developed in Perth, and founded (in part) by Richard Giles. The basic idea is that you can watch videos/listen to music, and tag it, as well as rate it. Then based upon your voting, you get recommendations. You can also subscribe to your recommendations list via iTunes (something that I presume will work better when they release a plugin shortly!)

While I’m not exactly a fan of the design, I think the service is pretty cool, and it’s great to see them getting some recognition from the big news sites. It’s also great to see that it’s privately funded. Congrats to Richard.

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