TPN’s latest podcast is Take Two – interviews with Australian business leaders by Leon Gettler, management and economics commentator for The Age newspaper in Melbourne Australia, and technology editor Garry Barker. Check out their interview with Justin Milne, CEO of Telstra BigPond.
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Ah… the clean country air of Bundaberg….
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David Chappelle is Black Bush. Classic.
John Butterworth is the CEO of AIMIA, the Australia Interactive Media Industry Association. I chatted with him recently about the state of the industry and tried to figure out who they seem to be so top-heavy, that is, involved more with big companies like Telstra and Sensis, rather than supporting the smaller, innovative companies. John explains their mission and some of the challenges with the industry in Australia.
I’m going to be taking a week off from podcasting and blogging folks, so check out some of the other great shows on The Podcast Network and if you are short on listening material, check out some of the older G’Day World interviews. I’ve got 300+ shows in the archives, and some of them are even good.
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About 5 weeks ago I ordered some products from an Australia site called Direct Discount. I paid via Paypal. I got a confirmation email. Everything looked legit. But it’s been five weeks and still no product. I’ve tried emailing their sales support line but the emails bounce. They have a fax number on the site but no telephone number. I can’t find a listing for them in the Aussie WhitePages. Any ideas on how I track these folks down to see if I’ve done my $100 or not? They also have a US site.
UPDATE 29 July 2007: Well I took Fi’s advice (thanks Fi!) and made a complaint via Paypal. The process took a couple of minutes and, a couple of days later, the company refunded my money, claiming they were out of stock with the product. A good outcomes from Paypal! Obviously the company (DirectDiscount.us) takes Paypal’s emails more seriously than they do mine. A lesson for anyone out there who gets ripped off in a Paypal transaction – make a complaint.
Today it’s again my pleasure to catch up with Dr Peter Ellyard, Australia’s leading futurist. We caught up for lunch in South Yarra today and chatted about why visionaries often feel frustrated with their own progress, the need for a world democracy and how shareholders can use their voting power to effect political change.
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Frank Arrigo, the guy who runs Microsoft’s Developer Platform Evangelism team in Australia, a 16 year veteran of Microsoft, joins me tonight to publicly break his big news – he’s moving to Seattle to direct Microsoft’s DPE field strategy worldwide.
The quality of the Skype call is terrible so we don’t talk long, but we manage to chat a bit about Microsoft’s enormous drop in enterprise developer support for Windows in the last year (according to this report), what some of the reasons for it might be and what they need to do to stop the desertion. We also talk about the lack of support for kids with Asperger’s Syndrome in Sydney (two of Frank’s sons have it) and the great support in Seattle. And I finally bet Frank $50 and an iPhone that 50% of his team in Australia will quit in the next year after he leaves….
Check out this video of Frank doing his best attempt at Shakespeare:
http://images.soapbox.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf
Video: macbeth.ed
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