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Listing of The Top 10 Australian Technology Blogs

February 19, 2020 by Sheldon Leave a Comment

Today I was looking to put together a listing of the Top Ten technology websites in Australia, but I ended up researching much more than I should and so got more than 10 for you. I went surfing ( the internet off course) and top websites that know what ranks in Australia like Alexa.com , Googletrends.com, and similarweb.com and a few others

Data from – Best Tech Ranking Websites 2017 to 2020

There was an interesting mix on top go to websites by Australians – I was surprised at finding vic.gov.au the government website ranking at #43 on alexa, not so surprised at livejasmin.com #35 and pornhub.com #24 rankings. I really don’t know how diply.com was on that top list.

How alexa.com ranks websites

Alexa ranks websites based on a combined measure of page views and unique site users, and creates a list of most popular websites based on this ranking time-averaged over three-month periods. Only the site’s highest-level domain is recorded, aggregating any subdomains.

Here is what similarweb found for the top news and media websites in Australia.

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Similarweb collects data like which website gets how much traffic from which country comes to a website and more similar data, so they got a pulse and where people are going on the internet.

What similar webs gave me on technology niche

Well similarweb did not have a technology category, so I browsed computers and electronics and got office.com, apple.com and xero.com – so I browsed onto their other category internet and telecom and got facebook.com and google.com.au with top ranks.

Not satisfied I surfed onto Arts and entertainment category and got websites like “Netflix.com” “youtube.com” and imdb.com as top ranking websites in Australia.

I, just did not rely on google.com , but also looked into popularity on Facebook.com where people spend a lot of time browsing content nowadays and has its own popularity ranking within the facebook world.

You’d be surprised to know – Real Madrid footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has overtaken Shakira to become the most followed person on Facebook according to BBC. The 30-year-old star now has 107,096,356 likes compared to 107,087,100 for the Colombian singer.

Some top tech pages on facebook

  • Samsung Mobile
  • Apple Music

There is not much information on top ranking Facebook pages in technology, but if we look at news and media in Australia , these websites (sbs, abc and 7news) are definitely doing well with a large fanbase on facebook. Nine.com.au and yahoo7 is also doing well with their fanbases on facebook.

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According to roymorgan.com.au – Three million Australians (14+) visited one or more of these Top 10 tech-focused websites in an average four weeks in the year to March 2016—up 34% since the year to March 2013.

So I collected all the information from these top ranking categories from these different websites and came up with these top ranking technology websites and came up with my own little refined algorithm for “Top Tech Websites in Australia for 2017” and here it is listed below.

The data is collected from these freely available top data collecting websites (alexa,similarweb etc) , including social media platforms facebook.com and more and web search engines including bing.com and yahoo.com apart from google.com.au.

The top 10 Best Technology  Blogs for Australia

Gizmodo Australia – Official Site

https://www.gizmodo.com.au

Technology and consumer electronics news, reviews and deals. Gizmodo covers computers, software, mobile phones, TVs, MP3 players, games, vehicles and peripherals

reddit website

Reddit.com – Official Site

https://www.reddit.com

life hacker au

Lifehacker Australia – Official Site

https://www.lifehacker.com.au/

If you want  to get the most out of technology and work smarter then Lifehacker Australia’s productivity tips, downloads, shortcuts and website recommendations will help you with it.

netflix australia

Netflix.com.au – Official Site

https://www.netflix.com/au/

This mainly  tv series  streaming website  has a Flat monthly fee streaming TV and movies service at an affordable price and has managed  to take a huge chunk from foxtel’s monopoly.

ebay.com.au

Ebay.com.au – Official Site

http://www.ebay.com.au/

Ebay is one of the biggest online buy and sell websites  that started with suction style listings and now  has big commercial companies regularly selling on their platform as well.

imgur

imgur.com – Official Site

http://imgur.com/

Imgur is the Internet’s visual storytelling community .Its a viral website that has interesting content mostly in pictures.

cnet tech website

CNET.COM – Official Site

http://www.cnet.com/

Among top few technology sites, this one is the best tech news website to get the info about gadgets, technology, reviews on smartphones, tech videos and information covering latest topics like smart home devices and electronic accessories.

lad bible

Ladbible.com – Official Site

http://www.ladbible.com/

Ladbible is the home of entertainment, viral video, trending content and the latest news. They are the biggest community in the world for a generation of social media viral content.

annoying cookie guy next web

THENEXTWEB.COM – Official Site

https://thenextweb.com

The NextWeb founded in 2006 is now the world’s largest online publisher that delivers latest information for internet technology, gadgets , new devices & info related to tech companies.  They do a great job on promoting their content on social media platforms like Facebook in a viral news kind of way.

slashdot

Slashdot.org – Official Site

https://slashdot.org/

Its  News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news with a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source

gumtree

Gumtree Australia – Official Site

https://www.gumtree.com.au/

Gumtree is the #1 classifieds site in the UK,Australia, South Africa, and Singapore.

buzzfeed

Buzzfeed – Official Site

https://www.buzzfeed.com/

BuzzFeed is a buzzing independent digital media company delivering news and entertainment to hundreds of millions of people around the world in a social and viral environment kind of way.

mashable.com.au

MASHABLE.COM

http://www.mashable.com/

Mashable.com, founded in 2005 by Pete cashmoore covers topics related to latest technology, gadget reviews, social media tips. They also cover new startups related to technology and innovation.

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ARSTECHNICA.COM

http://www.arstechnica.com/

Arstechnica, founded in 1998, one of the oldest tech news magazine. It has been regarded as a trusted source for latest scientific advancements, tech policy analysis, hardware performance analysis, game reviews. They also created ars in 2001, it’s first type of IT publication covering gaming and tech related news.

2017 – Quantcast MOZ and Wikipedia Rankings

While this listing above is one of the top listing I have compiled for top technology blogs in Australia, there are still many more websites with many more rankings in similar or related niches. I was not so much surprised to see linked.in and wordpress.org ranking at no .5 and no.6 at the https://moz.com/top500 ranking list.

Another top listing website like Quantcast.com listed amazon.com and Wikipedia.org at no#4 and no#5 for world listing which confirms their popularity online. This website surprisingly gave buzzfeed.com and wikia.com as top popular websites for Australia.

Wikipedia.org has its own list amalgamated from similarweb and alexa, among the usual suspects for top world websites, I noticed Chinese websites like “baidu.com” – (the equivalent to the Chinese Google search engine), qq.com (tencent) , and Aliexpress.com as popular Chinese websites in world listing.

Start- ups on the Australian scene

Start-ups haven’t been doing too bad as well on the Australian scene, here are some start-ups with promise with some already having proved themselves.

Top startup tech companies in Australia

1. Atlassian

2. Xero

3. Envato

4. Campaign Monitor

5. Canva

Deloitte Australia has its own listing of top start-ups in Australia that are growing at a rapid pace.

You can also find out more about Australian online surfing habits reading this article on abc about top visited websites by Australians.

I started out with the top 10 tech blogs but ended up listing much more than that (currently at 14), if you have any more websites worthy of adding to this list, do  get in touch with  me at my blog over here.

Filed Under: Australia, Australian, Business Report, Entertainment, Report, Technology Tagged With: ABR, Gadgets, Tech Giants, Technology and Business

India gets warnings on chinese telecom firms Huawei and ZTE

December 8, 2012 by Sheldon Leave a Comment

Indian Research body C-DoT has dialled and informed the  telecom department to bar Chinese network vendors Huawei and ZTE from bidding and putting in tenders  in the communication ministry’s Rs 20,000-crore broadband venture involving the roll out of a national optic fibre network (NOFN) that will take high-speed internet  in India to new levels.

Huawei, ZTE Security warning in India for  optic fibre bidding


A top research wing of the government has raised concern over two Chinese companies, primarily engaged in telecommunications equipment and services in the country
 Ref: http://www.timesnow.tv/

The research body, in an internal note or memo  to the Indian  telecom secretary R Chandrasekhar, says India must keep Chinese telecom networks –  Huawei and ZTE out of sensitive government projects in the aftermath of a recent US congressional report that warned both Chinese gear-makers pose a security threat to telecom networks worldwide.

The Indian  agency C-DoT has urged DoT to allow 100% domestic sourcing of GPON gear for the NOFN venture by tweaking preferential market access (PMA) norms, in light of “a 22% cost disadvantage for electronics manufactured in India compared to imports”.

 What is National Optical Fibre Network ( NOFN)

  •  Project to be implemented by NOFN‐SPV namely Bharat
  • Broadband Network Ltd (BBNL).
  •  Govt. of India to fund the project through the Universal Service
  • Obligation Fund (USOF). Rs. 20,000 Cr.($4B)
  • Suitable Tri‐partite MoU to be signed by GOI, State Govt & BBNL

Filed Under: 2012, News Australia Tagged With: C-DoT, Huawei|, India, Networks, telecom department, ZTE Corp

Gold– Past and future of Investing in gold for profit

August 15, 2012 by Sheldon Leave a Comment

Gold as an investment

Gold is the most popular form of investment of all precious metals. It is the preferred investment medium used as a hedge against political, economic or man-made currency crises which include declines in investment markets, inflation, escalating national debt, currency failure, social unrest and war. Like other markets, the gold market is subject to speculation especially because of futures derivatives and contracts.

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Various historical factors and current events suggest that gold is more akin to a currency rather than a commodity and analysts says the bullion gold investment might be profitable in the short term due to the global economic outlook

Gold through the ages

Until recently, gold has traditionally been used as money, and has also been the relative standard for currency comparisons relative to countries or economic regions. Gold standards were implemented by many European countries in the latter half of the 19th century. During the financial crises in the wake of World War I these were temporarily held in abeyance. The Bretton Woods system post World War II pegged gold to the United States $ at the rate of US$35 per troy ounce. This practice continued till 1971 when the United State suspended unilaterally direct convertibility of the $ to gold and transitioned to a flat currency system. The Swiss Franc was the last currency to be divorced from gold.

Current factors that impact gold prices

Like most other commodities, bullion gold investment price is determined by supply, demand and speculation. However with gold, unlike other commodities, savings and disposal rather than consumption have a significant role to play in driving the price of gold. Much of the gold mined since inception still exists in bullion or bulk produced jewellery form, and can potentially return to the market when the price is right. The current weak global outlook has also made people invest in gold as a safe bet  which has been driving the price of gold

Considering the enormous quantity of gold above-ground in comparison with annual production, price is driven more by sentiment or demand instead of fluctuations in annual production or supply. According to World Gold Council figures, about 2,500 tonnes are mined annually, of which roughly 2,000 tonnes go into jewellery or industrial production/dentistry and only the remainder to exchange traded gold funds and retail investors.

Guest post Written by Ktkoh

Filed Under: Gpost, Mining, Stock Market, Stockmarket Tagged With: Bullion, Gold Prices, Investing in gold

Australian Secrets sold to Russia By canadian spy

July 25, 2012 by Sheldon 1 Comment

In breaking news for spy revelations ,Jeffrey Paul Delisle, a naval officer, is alleged to have disclosed a vast amount of data of classified information to Russian agents on a scale comparable to the alleged handover of information to  WikiLeaks of  the United States military Secrets  and diplomatic reports

Secrets sold – Canadian spy sells Secrets to Russia

Jeffrey Paul Delisle Canadian  spy ASIO Australia

This case has compromised Australian intelligence information in an international espionage case which has also sent shock waves through Western security agencies.

Delisle worked at the Royal Canadian Navy’s Trinity intelligence and communications centre at Halifax, Nova Scotia.  He communicated classified information to an unnamed foreign entity between July 2007 and January 2012

 

The Spy Data information Leaked by canandian spy

He was arrested after the Canadian Security Intelligence Service concluded he was passing classified information to Russian operatives.
Australian and Canadian governments have discussed  about this at a secret international conference in New Zealand earlier this year

Much of the information allegedly sold secretly to the Russians  by the canadian spy was more highly classified than the disclosures attributed to private Manning, and included signals intelligence collected by the ”Five Eyes” intelligence community of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Other famous Spies and cases

1. Mata HariBorn: 1876; Died: 1917

Spied For: Germany (and Possibly France)

2. Julius and Ethel RosenbergBorn: 1915, 1918; Died: 1953

Spied For: The Soviet Union

3. Aldrich AmesBorn: 1941

Spied For: The Soviet Union

4. Giacomo CasanovaBorn: 1725; Died: 1798

Spied For: Venetian Inquisitors

5. Klaus FuchsBorn: 1911; Died: 1988
Spied For: The Soviet Union

Guest post article by Sheldon – “IF QUICK, I SURVIVE. IF NOT QUICK, I AM LOST. THIS IS “DEATH.”” — SUN TZU (THE ART OF WAR)

Filed Under: 2012, Government Tagged With: ASIO, Australia, Intelligence, Police, Secrets, SPY

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