The results of the Australian Startup Carnival were announced Sunday, and as a judge I had the opportunity to review every entry. The carnival was entry based, so not every Australian startup was featured, and yet there were some great entries.
The winner was Perth, Western Australia based Scouta, a media recommendations service we’ve featured a couple of times on TechCrunch. The judges felt that although not without competition, Scouta’s recommendations across video as well as music offered something unique. Scouta has also moved into white-label service provision, offering a solid business plan that is already starting to see results.
Second placed was Good Barry, a service we covered in October 2007. GoodBarry’s GoodBusiness is an easy to use hosted eCommerce platform.
Third was a Google Mashup I frequently use myself: SuburbView. We’ve not covered it before on TechCrunch, and although it’s not the prettiest mashup, its ability to pull data from Australia’s leading real estate sites and break down that information into finite detail, from number of bedrooms, price, suburb, and even building type make it a practical service that is ripe for takeover.
A full list of the results can be found on the VS Consulting blog here. Judges comments are available here; it doesn’t take too much guessing as to which my comments were 
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Let me guess, the second comment on each one is yours right? Tough but fair
The third one is quite cool.
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I’m not sure they’re in any particular order.
Duncan you have perfectly right … sorry for my bad english , i’m from romania
Let that be a lesson to future finalists; co-host a podcast with Duncan if you want to win
hmmm… i’m pretty sure whoever said “Unoriginal idea that could be easily put together with some Magpie and a WP tweak.” about that plugger site probably had no business being a judge. That was one of the better projects in the roundup. Kind of unfair with some top spots taken by companies already enjoying global exposure… so that’s unfortunate. Not to mention, development on Magpie has ben abandoned for over a year and there are much better libraries to tap, UFP, SimplePie, etc… than Magpie.. whoever said that needs to wake up from their Rip Van Winkle nap… a very nasty and misinformed comment.
Some cool emerging startups on that list but for some reason (i can take a guess or two) we end up getting more of the same on top… rubbish. I feel bad for the other excellent startups that showed their products but got passed over for companies that have already gotten more exposure… ugh…. just too bad. Mike, organize that shit for them next time… teach ‘em how to throw a startup conference, lol….
Start ups in Oz? whoda known that? You live and learn.
was that long arse post a spam worthy comment ?
i skipped it.. my internet eyes “scans” .. can’t read 20 pages long comments.. puleezzz.
but good lists.. good header to what people from down under are up to.
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i was criticizing one of the long comments (not the original post)
whoa!! what’s up with #6?
Duncan thanks for covering it. Carnival was aimed at Aussie startups only, I know we had 2/3 entries where startups are originated from Australia but their audience was not in Australia.
Thanks for all yr help and we are now further expanding and adding more startups from different areas on our portal.
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Thanks for judging and providing feedback with this competition Duncan! Much appreciated.
Duncan you should be ashamed of your contribution. It seems you spent roughly 20 seconds looking at each site. Your comments demonstrate a complete lack of technical knowledge. How embarrassing for you.
Why has post 6 not been removed yet? Geez…
So, Where are the pictures? How much copy can I read without a photograph and some white space breaking it up. Lose the logos and let us look at something. This is a visual media as well
The third one is cool.
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