Melon Corporate Blog

Australian Anthill Article - Innovation During Perspiration

Kevin Garber (General Manager) - Apr 20, 2009

My most recent article in Australian Anthill Magazine has been published.

You can read the article direct on the Anthill website or view the PDF from the printed version.

Kevin

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Reflections on Silicon Valley and TechCrunch50 2008

Kevin Garber (General Manager) - Dec 18, 2008

I was honored to be invited by my favourite Australian entrepreneur magazine Australian Anthill to write an article about my reflections on Silicon Valley.

Whilst I was taken aback by the remarkable entrepreneur ecosystem in San Francisco and Silicon Valley I did wonder a little if the fundamentals of business were not being treated with the respect they deserve.

>>> Link to PDF version (3 pages including cover of magazine, 5MB)

>>> Link to standard web version of full article

The article was also published in Australian Anthill’s email newsletter and the article scored the honour of the subject line of "Silicon Valley is a graveyard". 

Click here (jpg) to see a screen shot of the article as seen in the email newsletter.

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Project Palantir - Facebook visualisation shows users communicating with each other around the world

Dain Saxon (Digital Producer) - Nov 28, 2008

It’s easy to forget how much the internet has revolutionised global communication in the past decade - until you see it with your own eyes.  Credit: news.com.au

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Melon Media goes to Google - part two

Dain Saxon (Digital Producer) - Oct 30, 2008

Part two of Kevin’s interview with Google Product Manager Sharath Bulusu - discussion touches on Google Algorithm, Google culture, discussion of cloud computing, Google Gears, Chrome.

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Kevin comments on 702 Talk Radio South Africa about surprise Australia 1% rate cut.

Dain Saxon (Digital Producer) - Oct 10, 2008

Kevin comments on 702 Talk Radio South Africa about Australia’s surprise 1% rate cut - Tuesday 7 October 2008.

Kevin hosted one of the world’s first live internet related radio shows in 1996 / 1997 on 702 - there are rumours that there are tapes of the show floating around on the black market.

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Melon Media & spellr.us meet a Google Product Manager

Dain Saxon (Digital Producer) - Oct 01, 2008

Kevin Garber from Melon Media was invited to Google and had the opportunity to interview a Google Product Manager Sharath Bulusu - discussion includes his role, platforms/technologies used at Google.

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Melon Media Goes to San Francisco and Visits Google

Kevin Garber (General Manager) - Sep 30, 2008

Kevin Garber at the Google Headquarters in Mountain View.

>>> For more pictures and videos including an interview with a Google Product Manager click here.

Melon Media was lucky enough to be invited to the prestigious TechCrunch50 to present our spellr.us product.

Out of over 1000 applicants 50 were chosen to present on the main stage and 150 chosen to present in the “Demo Pit” - spellr.us was selected for the Demo Pit.

So off I went to San Francisco.

San Francisco along with the nearby Silicon Valley is the epicentre of the internet and IT world.

My first impressions of San Francisco was that it was a lot dirtier than I expected and a lot more homeless people than I expected.

People however are extremely smart, very friendly and the city is full of interesting characters.

The TechCrunch50 conference is put on the by the TechCrunch blog.

The panellists were extremely smart, interesting and all had real achievements behind them and were not mere corporate talking heads.

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Melon Media Launches spellr.us at TechCrunch50

Kevin Garber (General Manager) - Sep 11, 2008

spellr.us - a Melon Media product - was invited to present in the “Demo Pit” at the prestigious TechCrunch50 Conference.

Over 1000 companies applied to showcase their products at the Conference - 50 finalists were selected, and 200 chosen to present in the “Demo Pit”.

We are very proud of this achievement.  Keep your eyes out for more interesting products coming out of Melon Media over the next 18 months.

Feel free to read more about our experiences at the Conference here.

We were proud to be part of a small but strong Australian contingent that included:

- MediaConnect (Demo Pit) - Sydney
- PeopleBrowsr (Demo Pit) - Sydney Login TC50 Pass alpha1
- spellr.us (Demo Pit) - Sydney
- Cinergix- Melbourne (Finalist)

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Welcome to James - Senior Developer

Kevin Garber (General Manager) - Aug 28, 2008

Just a short note to welcome James to the Melon Media & spellr.us family in the role of Senior Developer.

James has had solid experience building web applications and websites.

James will be working with Charl on spellr.us and other projects.

Welcome James.

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spellr.us Goes Global with Techcrunch

Kevin Garber (General Manager) - Apr 23, 2008

The very famous blog techchrunch ran a story on us last night, very exciting, needless to say our registrations for spellr.us have gone crazy!

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/22/new-service-will-monitor-your-site-for-typos/

Techcrunch are THE blog in Silicon Valley.

Here is hoping to good things with spellr.us.

http://spellr.us

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