Wotnews, the Australian news aggregation and analysis service is launching a US version of their site today.

The new site can be found at http://wotnews.com

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The announcement highlights the continued growth of the company, formerly known as Plugger.

As regular readers will know, we think the world of wotnews and use it as a key research tool.

We’re sure the Americans will love the service as much as we do.

Keep an eye on this one.

Welcome to the February ‘09 installment of the Aussie Startup index.

Congratulations to all the startups that are appearing for the first time and to those who have imporved their ranking.

Sites from startup-australia.org are ranked and listed below. Sites are ranked based on an average of Alexa and Compete traffic data. Only sites that are ranked by both Alexa & Compete and that have an average ranking of < 1 million will be listed. This month 104 sites listed on the startup-australia wiki made the list. To get yourself included just add your site to the wiki.

In addition to the Alexa and Compete traffic data are the following fields which, while they aren’t included in the actual rank calculations, add deeper insight into the startups on the list

• Quantcast -  data from Quantcast.
• Hitwise - Hitwise Australian traffic rank.
• Change – Change in the startup’s ranking between Nov and Dec.
• NB: All columns are sortable, just click on the heading

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NEWS – THE TOP 100 AUSSIE WEB STARTUP INDEX

This month’s list has pushed us over 100 startups. As such, next month this list will be rebranded as the “Top 100 Aussie Web Startups Index”. As you’ve probably guessed, that means that we’ll be limiting the list to 100 web startups from now on.

It’s makes me a little sad to think that we can’t include everyone anymore. On the other hand, it’s great that so many startups are now announcing themselves and being considered.

As always, a big thankyou to Geoff Evason of Momentville (No.22 on this month’s list) who came up with the idea of the list and still sends through the bulk of the data every month.

Now onto the list…

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