Come to Silicon Beach

We don't write about Australia often enough for my liking. I was taken by Mark Jones' latest post on his Filtered blog about a front page story (only click if you're willing to grapple with a really clunky pay-per-view system) in today's Australian Financial Review about technology investment in Sydney's hi-tech community which has been dubbed Silicon Beach.

Mark notes "There's truckloads of money available for web startups in Australia if they've got a good business model. But many of the new companies Joshua quotes (such as Atlassian, Tangler, Quotify and the Freshview boys pictured on page 1 with their surf boards) are building companies with real revenues and real customers".