• Virgin Blue certainly has love for the Aussie startups. After featuring Just One Teaspoons eco-friendly filtering water bottle in the December issue, the magazine included a feature on customer loyalty program startup Perkler.
• AIMIA has announced the finalists for its 16th annual AIMIA Awards. 122 entries have been named finalists across 25 different categories. Winners will be announced at the Digital Content Industry Night of Nights in Melbourne March 5 with entries being judged by industry experts from around the globe. Some of the nominees include Melbourne-based startup RedBubble in the Best Cultural and Lifestyle category with their art printing and sales site, Tech 23 presenter DDX with its GLU platform for best export achievement, MOB for its Sculpture by the Sea augmented reality app and Wotnew’s newly released TeamStream site.
• Last week IPscape, the Australian cloud-based contact centre provider, launched Keep in Touch (KiT), a cloud-based, integrated telephony service for salesforce.com that can be accessed anywhere and from any telephone. KiT provides contact centres with IPscape’s advanced telephony features and call centre functionality from within the salesforce screen. Call notes and voice recordings are automatically inserted into the salesforce.com record for enterprise and unlimited edition users.
• Startups across the nation are busy applying for the newly opened Commercialisation Australia grant and they are documenting on their company blogs and sites. You can read about startup Shoes of Prey’s experience with the Proof of Concept grant on their 22Michaels blog and read more about the specifics of the program here.
• For those living and working in the cloud and loving, the Sydney CloudCamp, set for March 4, is an opportunity to network with fellow early adopters about advancing the technology. This free event, organized in a similar fashion to other “unconference” barcamp, will be held at the Australian Technology Park and is currently taking registrants.
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