We were delighted to be part of the Atlassian Startup Space at Web Direction South 09 expo in Sydney last week. We received great interest from the attendees, as they were mostly web developers. It is very exciting and reassuring for us to hear that video transcoding is such a pain for many companies out there.

Web Direction has grown into such a big event, now they are hosting conferences in Canada, Japan. The web community in Australia is a very passionate bunch. Around the conference, there was alot of other web related events as well and they managed to pack it into Web week Definitely should check it out again next year. And since Google Wave was sprouted from Sydney, everyone in the conference got an invite! How cool is that?

We also met other solid Aussie startups. It was great sharing experiences with other startup founders.

I also met a bunch of cool indie startup guys as well. Very useful sharing our experiences and stories.

• Agile Bench a project management tool designed to support agile software development processes
• Doculicious, an easy way to create embeddable web forms that generate PDF documents
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