About Richard Giles

Richard Giles is the CEO of Recommendation Ventures, a recommendation engine service provider, one of Australia’s top ten web 2.0 applications, and winner of the Australian Startup Carnival 2008.

Richard has been in the technology industry for almost 18 years, starting his career with a mobile phone company in 1990 when mobile phones weren’t as mobile.

Richard was an Australian web pioneer in the early-nineties, designing corporate websites, selling Internet connections to corporations, and was one of Curtin Universities first lecturers on the topic of the World Wide Web in 1995. He later worked for Sun Microsystems for nine years.

Richard’s achievements include winning the Best Australian Podcast of the Year 2006, authoring Podcasting Pocket Guide, and How To Use Flickr: The Digital Photography Revolution, and launching Scouta and managing Recommendation Ventures.

Richard currently co-hosts the video podcast Scouta TV, is on the committee of Australian Web Industry Association and GO3.

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4 Responses to “About Richard Giles”

  1. kellie e best Says:
    October 30, 2007 at 7:27 am

    richard-
    i googled :cat with dislocated pelvis: - and your cat, aspen.
    by reading the date on your blog entry, i know that his accident was a while ago; but i was hoping to get an update - as to his long term recovery. can you offer up any new-news?

    my cat :temporary jones: just returned from a “missing” status to a “found and injured” status of 8 days. she was diagnosed at the vet today as having a dislocated pelvis.

    i thought since you and aspen have been though this, you might be able to offer some assistance, guidance or anything you may deem useful.

    so, if time permits, please reply.
    kellie e best
    kedge0417@yahoo.com

    thanks

  2. Richard Says:
    October 30, 2007 at 7:49 am

    Aspen recovered really well. After about a month locked in a cage, which wasn’t much fun, he was let out and he slowly recovered. He’d always been a little clumsy, and not as agile as Pixel (his smaller sister), but he now climbs trees, jumps over walls, and gets in as much trouble as before. I wouldn’t know that he had the accident.

    I’m guessing that the vet has offered to do surgery. I’d take them up on it. From what our vet said, they’d put a dog down in the same situation because they’d never recover properly, but cats handle it well. That’s definately the case with Aspen. Cost a lot, but he’s still about and that matters.

    Hope that helps.

    Rich

  3. Five Years Later: Destination Known » Doctor Recommended Says:
    April 1, 2008 at 4:07 pm

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  4. Richard Giles Says:
    May 7, 2008 at 2:17 am

    I did a google search on my name and yours came up with some interesting similarities. I too was born and lived in Perth, West Australia. My family moved to the United States in September 1976. Just thought it was weird seeing my name and the location of my birthplace the same as yours.
    Have a great one.

    Respectfully,
    Richard Garth Giles

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