Allowing easy access to public data is gathering pace, with federal and state MPs staging events that promote openness in government will there be any tangible outcomes or is this another government talkfest?
Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector.
Thousands of Australian Web technologists and internet workers are attending the Web Directions South conference in Sydney this week. We dropped in to see what all the fuss was about.
If there is a Web 2.0 version of heaven, it must be Webjam. Last night Sydney's Bar Broadway was packed to the nines as 18 presenters got three minutes each on stage at Webjam 8 to show off their hot Web work. We were there to see it all go down.
Enrico Teotti discusses what he has learnt about information sharing in the past year
Charles McCathieNevile talks about Opera's Dragonfly and Scope debugging tools
Diana Mounter's second place-getting presentation is on how to build cool applications for local government (and she's not even a developer).
Mr Speaker was the winner of Webjam8 with TurnTubeList: a web application that allows DJ-like mixing of YouTube tracks.
Andreas Bovens shows off some cool tricks with HTML5, VIDEO and AUDIO tags, SVG and SMIL in the latest versions of Opera at Webjam8
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The long-awaited separation of Telstra
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