Sydney-based Internet marketing company Geekdom is getting serious about their tech incubator Geeksville with the updated site to go live tomorrow (30th July)

To quote Ian Naylor, the “Mayor of Geeksville”

Our aim with the Geeksville Incubation Programme is to take ideas in there early inception and develop them to a VC ready or cash positive state, using the huge pool of resource and specialised companies available to us within the Photon Group.

The Photon Group (ASX:PGA) he’s speaking about is a group of marketing and communications companies from all over the world. After listing in 2004 as a group of 13 companies, they now have over 50 companies and 6000 full time and casual staff.

Ian will be looking for people to enter the program soon so keep an eye out for details on the site

Tough times for Starbucks globally have filtered down to Australia with the Aussie boss announcing they’re closing 61 of their 84 stores locally.

It wasn’t that long ago that starbucks was the only multi-site company that that you could get guaranteed WiFi access at. All over the country startups were planned and worked on at various Starbucks locations and now many of those stores will be gone.

The end of an era perhaps? Then again, perhaps the era had already ended…