Running an Internet Business in Australia
I’m fascinated by how things are changing with the Internet. Changes that alter how we learn, politics, quality of life, entertainment and more. From a business prospective, the question is how to use change to attract more customers, transact business and share information.
Just because it is possible doesn’t mean you can do it here in Australia. Clearly, the Internet works differently from place to place. There are technical issues as well as social issues. For example, Internet Speeds are 100 times faster in some countries – did you know the average speed of broadband in South Korea is 100 megabytes?
Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft – is an example where you can see wrong information in their Live Maps, but when you try to log in to fix them – you must have an address in the USA to get started. Why give the link to manage your account and then require the address to be in the USA? Don’t you just hate that!
A recent post described the Android Phone where you can get traffic predictions to plan your route through a city. The phones even know the colour of traffic lights as you approach – will we ever see that in Australia? One must assume so, but when.
I’ve just gotten a Kindle from Amazon. It is an eBook reader. It will store 1500 books and wirelessly load and update newspapers and magazines the instant they are published. I’ve already read a couple of books and find it to be a very pleasing way to read. But, not all book titles can be purchased here in Australia even though they are delivered electronically. If I change my account details to display another country, I immediately get 30% more book titles to choose from including Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly. Why can’t I get the same books just because I live in Australia?
I heard a prediction that the average kid’s iPod will hold 85 years of video. Then, the question is how do you watch it all? But, when you have these amazing libraries of video – is the goal entertainment. Perhaps instead you have a reference library that tells you everything from CPR to how to repair a toaster. Or, will toasters come preloaded with repair videos?
Even though I feel at times a little hard done by when my Internet speeds drop to 100k even though I’ve been sold 8 megabytes (yet to be seen in reality) I do take heart in the fact that things could be worse.
December 7th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Nice site. There?s some good information on here. I?ll be checking back regularly.
January 10th, 2010 at 9:05 am
Good effort, Mark.
And I guess show casing your latest work gives the new sites their first back link…
But I guess I’d rather listen to your ramblings at the coffee shop than spend more time online reading them. LOL