At the height of the tech boom almost a decade ago it would have been laughable to suggest that one of Western Australia's most successful internet entrepreneurs would offer local weather information to fishermen.
Homeowners who choose to sell their properties privately are finding themselves squeezed out of cyberspace as big industry players look to dominate internet advertising.
With the Internet playing an increasingly important role in real estate marketing, two Western Australian organisations have formed an alliance they hope will give them the leading market position over large media-owned websites.
REAL estate multimedia developer aussiehome.com is poised to expand significantly on the back of a deal signed last week with UK mapping developer MultiMap.
PERTH'S own web-based real estate services company, aussiehome.com, won both the most innovative IT business award and the coveted people's choice award at the recent annual Asia-Pacific ICT Awards.
AUSSIEHOME.COM did well to beat a high-turnover business such as AdultShop.com in the 2000 IT&T Awards Best New Innovation in E-Commerce category – especially given the company has only been around for six months.
A PERTH based company, aussiehome.com, has been formed to provide local information about Perth's suburbs using computer map-making skills developed for the resources industry.