Introducing LinkViz.com: StartupCamp Australia
On Saturday afternoon I dropped in on StartupCamp in Sydney. It was a hive of activity, and I quickly found that one of the teams could use my JavaScript skills. By 9pm that evening, we had created LinkViz.com, a unique way of visualising and navigating the sites that people are talking about on Twitter and other social networks:
It is still very much in beta form, and no doubt there are a few bugs here and there, but we have plenty of exciting functionality planned so please keep an eye on it.
The other two teams also produced some very impressive projects:
TrafficHawk.com.au is a useful Google Maps mashup that displays realtime traffic condition information over a map of Sydney.
uT.ag is a unique URL shortening service that allows bloggers and others to monetise the links they share around.
The quality and maturity of these projects is truly astounding given they were thrown together in much less than 48 hours.
A big thanks to Bart and Kim from Tjoos.com for their excellent work in organising the event. Also a big thanks to my teammate (and now business partner!) Ian Naylor for graciously hosting us at GeekDom.
There’s another StartupCamp happening in January next year. If you’re looking for enthusiastic, talented people to embark on an exciting project, I advise you to sign up. I’ll be there.