ThingFish provides strategic consultancy, technology design and management services for corporate customers and government agencies.
Things for Businesses that want to use Technology in novel and creative ways. This is a pretty broad canvas.
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Microsoft Australia web portal and MSN titles
Telstra BigPond – Bigpond portal publishing platform and travel, finance, news etc
ETRADE – share trading portal UI and services integration
Fairfax SMH online – V1 publishing platform
McDonalds – publishing platform
Catch – Australia’s first online dating platform with ‘affinity’ algorithm.
Coke – RedFest publishing platform, games and events integration
Optus InCite Trade Exchange – hybrid stack several tech
IBM AS400 at (Ice cream logistics)
Disney – Desktop Dinosaur Campaign
Warner Music – artist sites WP
Warner Media – streaming thing proprietary .NET blech
EMI Music – artist sites
James Hardie – building products sites/specifiers
Philips – product sites
Olympus – product sites/camera specifier/wizard
LJHooker – real estate listings platform
Mortgage Choice – home loans brokerage facility
Pepper Home Loans – retail lending site
ThinkTank – commercial lending pipeline
Westpac – UI design and markup
COG/TLR – configurable commercial leasing matrix specifier/pipeline
News – News site mastheads design and markup
ABC – News Radio and TV sites’ CMS platform review and recommendations
Optus Zoo – UI design and platform services
i7 Portal and services integration
Foxtel – Channel group programs sites CMS and programming platform
Sydney Olympics site
NSW Gov Portal – platform architecture and services integration
Vertical Markets – publishing platform and subscription services
TMN – The Music Network publishing platform and subscription services
APA – Australian Publishers Association Title and inventory hub
Transurban – ticket sales services integration
Travel.com.au – publishing platform and () online booking services integration
Accor Hotels – online publishing and booking services integration
OMNUS – Aventis pharma platform for GP & specialist medical journal access
Royal College of Pathologists RCPA – publishing platform and subscription services
Sonic Health Care – online directory and appointment services integration
Stryker – publishing platform and patient referral services
HCF – online publishing and policy selection/sales services integration
HETI – PTAP internships allocation platform for medical graduates
EBX – Endowment Bond Exchange platform
CUSCAL – credit cards and terminal services platform
NSW Health – education services platform
Aussie Home Loans – UI design and markup
AMP – UI design and markup
Orange – mobile phone plan sales portal
Vodafone – mobile phone plan sales portal
Hutchison Telecoms – mobile phone plan sales portal
Solution 6 – publishing platform and customer support services integration
MYOB – publishing platform and customer support services integration
Telstra Trading Post – online classifieds and auctions technical design consultancy
Stuff – Australia’s first online auctions platform
Career One – Job Classifieds publishing platform(s)
BP – online publishing and mobile games integration
CUB – online publishing and games integration
Tower Life – online publishing and insurance sales services integration
Toyota Finance – online publishing and finance sales services integration
Switzer – publishing platform and subscription services
Nissan Australia – online marketing and publishing platform.
Daniel Petre Manhood – publishing and Australia’s first blogging platform
Salmat – Lassoo online publishing platform and advertising subscription services integration.
NSW Tourism – WP publishing templates and UI design/markup
Red Bull – Fatwire publishing templates and UI design/markup
BOC – publishing platform and sales services integration
Wacom – global publishing platform, UI design, markup and services integration
Amaysim – mobile plans publishing, sales and account management services platform integration with a very Special billing tier.
Toyota – online marketing, sales and support services platform(s).
OurPatch – regional media publishing and advertising subscription platform
RUSSH – publishing platform and subscription services
HR – Recruitment Platform – Corporate version of LinkedIn.
There’s bound to be more, but this is the spectrum over ~22yrs at the vanguard of Australia’s online marketing technologies and enterprise services integration. Lots of experience conceiving, designing and developing new and innovative Things online.
ASIC and ATO needed a suitable label in 1999 when the web was still deep, un-chartered waters. ThingFish seemed as a good a name as any.* The vast majority of this work was done with HotHouse Interactive, Stuff, HighBall, Regional Media Networks and several more recent startups – in a services capacity as a co-founder at these businesses. Because. Tax. Lots (of).
ThingFish Pty Ltd is the entity responsible for technical direction in these professional services’ supply under contract.
*Zappa fans will recognise another context, which is no less apt, but hardly suitable for a corporate audience. That’s OK too.
Once, we could just put our email address and phone number on a web page, so people could contact us directly. Easy!
This became impractical when robots started harvesting these contact details for remarkable offers of personal improvement and/or great wealth.
Sorry. Use the form and we’ll get back to you. Unless you’re looking for Gandhi quotes celebrating minor business wins. LinkedIn is the place for that sort of thing.
