October 2010
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September 2010
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“No matter where you go, there you are”
– Buckaroo Banzai inspired by Confucius
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“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they...”
– Bill Gates
August 2010
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Sorry, Sydney only for the moment.
When we saw some of the most recent reviews posted for Axle8 on the Apple App Store, it became very clear to us that we hadn’t been doing a very good job of telling people that we were only launched for Sydney during our early beta release. Some of you may have thought you could find all the voting polling booths throughout Australia using Axle8 from today’s tweets - for that...
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Find your nearest polling booth this Saturday →
It’s Election 2010 time this Saturday in Australia so we thought we’d lend a helping hand to Sydneysiders in avoiding getting that $20 fine for failing to vote.
We think voting should fit into your schedule rather than the other way around. So what we’ve done is used Australian Electoral Commission data to geotag every polling booth in the Sydney metro area on Axle8 along with...
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Beta Launch, Partner Call-up, Whatdoyathink?
Last week we decided to push the button and go live with our beta in Sydney - the rest of the world will just have to wait for now. It’s been something which we had been working on for the past 7 months and had been released in limited functionality back in April with the debut of our initial iPhone app on Apple’s App Store.
Now we have revamped our website and more importantly, it...
July 2010
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“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where...”
– Steve Jobs
A few weeks back, we were invited to record a...
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
– Albert Einstein
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June 2010
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“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it...”
– Bruce Lee
May 2010
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Strange Interview Response (No, he isn't getting a...
Interviewer: So, I guess you've checked out our website and have some idea about what we do here.
Interviewee: Well, actually I don't look at a company's website until the 3rd round of interviews. You know how it is, there are like 4 to 5 rounds of interviews these days.
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We need more Power!
Image courtesy of Torontoist
We met our first candidate this morning for the Web Developer role we’re hoping to fill here at Axle8. What we’re looking for is someone with real world experience in building cool and groovy B2C websites in a fun environment which doesn’t suffer from “stuffy corporate environment” syndrome that many workplaces in the City can be...
April 2010
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How To Win The Location-Based Startup Wars →
This is a link to a great little article by @stevecheney about the developing location-based market dynamics. Although many are focused on the constant tug-o-war between foursquare and Gowalla with big brothers Google and Facebook overshadowing them, it was encouraging to read this:
“Geolocation is a great place for a nimble, focused startup to create an empire, even as check-ins become a...
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“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched...”
– Reid Hoffman, Founder of LinkedIn
This will be the last post on the Axle8.com before we upload the new website! Some final touches, code fixes, image changes, copy edits, W3C validation testing.
Did i mention final touches?
March 2010
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To have our own iPhone App, or not to have, that...
This morning we spoke to Sam from a fellow Sydney based startup Local Sydney who’s web business aggregates local pubs and bar’s promotions like happy hour times, trivia nights, live bands etc.
They’ve had success in being the place for pubs and bars to post their events and promotional activities (1865 events at 258 venues) on a searchable website so people can find out when...
“Even the most mainstream brands realise that consumers need to be enticed back...”
– LS:N
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Calling out to Front End Web Developers!
We are currently looking for a Web Developer for a 2-3 month contract at our office in Sydney, with the possibility of continued employment at the end of that period.
Please contact us if you think you’re match with the following crits:
A fast learner & component professional who works well individually or as part of a team
An enthusiast in writing clean reusable code and...
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FASTRACK the Future by Deloitte, UTS and Hargraves
Axle8 has been invited as a participant at a one day workshop in Melbourne next week organised and facilitated by Deloitte Australia’s Innovation team and the Hargraves Institute. The goal of the workshop is to come up with out-of-the-box, multidisciplinary solutions to the most challenging problems that are in danger of changing the market rules. Guest innovators include some pretty great...
February 2010
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“I believe that the mobile phone, because of its intimacy, its timeliness,...”
– Andrew Bud, co-founder and Executive Chairman of mBlox
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Points of Differentiation
Two Thursday’s ago we received a call from the good folk at AusIndustry about our application to the Commercialisation Australia innovation grant. They’ve been swamped by this new program which only opened its doors for applications on Jan 4 this year so we were quite glad to have received a call from our Customer Service Manager so quickly.
After some preliminary questions about some...
“Old neighborhood or new town, Axle8 is your local and personalised noticeboard...”
January 2010
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Software Development Internship - yes, it's paid.
Do you share our passion for excellence, solving problems, and creating great user experiences? Do you love working on many aspects of software development, including brainstorming, design, architecture, development, testing, deployment, and support? Do you have a good understanding of both server-side and client-side development, and believe that it’s important that they be approached in...
And then there were 4... (well 3.5 FTE really)
A whirlwind of recruitment action landed at Axle8 in the new year and our workpod has become somewhat more cosy. Some have described it as “buzzing”, some have called it just plain “busy”. We certainly have taken over the north western corner of the Enterprise Hub but it’s surprisingly bums on seats, fingers on keyboards and eyes on monitor with no Foosball table in...
“… Mobile measurement can accurately tackle “place” of engagement,...”
– Gary Schwartz, president/CEO of Impact Mobile
December 2009
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It's the Location Land Rush!
I’m about to give up on my Google Reader - i’ve done my best to keep on top of the “unread” messages but when you go overseas for 10 days and aren’t online 24/7, it just swamps you. I guess i can just mark all as read but i hate doing that as you never know what gem of an article you’ll be throwing into the waste bin.
In any case, i did manage to get across a...
“Axle8: a real time reach and discovery tool for public events and arts &...”
We need interns! We need interns NOW!
Do you share our passion for excellence, solving problems, and creating great user experiences?
Do you love working on many aspects of software development, including brainstorming, design, architecture, development, testing, deployment, and support?
Do you have a good understanding of both server-side and client-side development, and believe that it’s important that they be approached in...
November 2009
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Our smartphone inventory
One of the cool things about working at Axle8 was that we’d have an excuse to play with the gadgets we love so much. The latest and greatest, the funky, the cool.
We have a collection of 4 smartphones for development purposes at the moment: 1 iPhone 3GS, 1 Android-powered HTC Magic, and 2 iPhone 2Gs (thanks Quang!). The 2G iPhones won’t be much use out in the field but will serve as a...
Customising our tumblr theme
Going to make some changes to our website to make it a bit more ours. Rodolfo the resident genius graphic designer at the Enterprise Hub will be weaving his magic shortly. New tabs, new icons, new graphics, all in a cool and quietly understated style.
Watch this space.
October 2009
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We have a home
Working out of your home on the dining table for over three months will drive you nuts. Guaranteed. The disciple of getting to work goes out the door with endless distractions and you realise why there aren’t any comfortable surfaces besides your desk chair at places of work.
Fortunately i found via Twitter a new home for Axle8 - the Vibe Wire Enterprise Hub in Ultimo! It’s full of...