TechYob

Went along to an interesting panel discussion about the future of TV and the internet hosted by AIMIA.  My take is that P2P will be to content as broadcast was to TV.  When the medium is the internet, P2P is hands down the most efficient and scalable way of using ’spectrum’ (bandwidth).  Of all the speakers I found myself nodding more often than not when Phil Morle waxed lyrical on the subject. 

Sydney is a small eco system in the startup world and got talking with Marty of Tangler fame about the importance of instituting a customer development cycle as part of the ethos of every Oz tech startup.  The basic concept is that you dont scale your sales and marketing before you have established a repeatable sales process.  To do this you need to have a rigorous set of gates, just as you would for developing your product, which you use to filter your business idea or product concept. 

One last mention goes out to Rob and Nick who are developing a remarkable sports oriented online channel 3eep.  Sound plan, great team.  These are the kind of guys that News and the TV channels need to be getting behind otherwise they will find the train will have already left the station when their panopoly over free to air TV inevitably looses steam.