Category: Melbourne

How I use Social Media to keep connected with my Family

Alushka Rajaram | July 13, 2011 | Comments (1)

Back in 2003, my mother got a job as a nurse at Frankston Hospital in a little suburb of Melbourne called Frankston. Always being a tight knit family, my dad and I left South Africa with her to settle down in Australia. It was an exciting adventure on one hand (especially since we were experiencing [...]

LinkedIn passes 2 million Members in Australia

David Cowling | April 14, 2011 | Comments (0)

Many of you today may have received an email from LinkedIn announcing that they now have 2 Million members in Australia using the popular business social network. LinkedIn has also now opened an office in Melbourne and the site now has 20 staff in Australia working across sales, marketing, advertising and recruitment. LinkedIn have been [...]

Search for Facebook deals in Australia soon – facebook.com/deals

David Cowling | February 2, 2011 | Comments (0)

With the deal a day market becoming increasingly competitive over the past couple months, Google trying to buy GroupOn in the US, Yahoo Australia buying spreets.com.au for $40 million AUD – Facebook is now getting in on the action with their own deals service through their mobile check-in platform. If you use a Facebook mobile [...]

Bing Maps adds tool to estimate Taxi Fare for Sydney & Melbourne

David Cowling | August 3, 2010 | Comments (1)

Bing Maps has created a new tool to give you an estimated cost of a taxi fair from one point to another. The tool, very much still in beta mainly has US locations to choose from. However the tool does have Sydney, Australia and we are able to estimate taxi fares to and from various [...]

Optus Holding Midnight iPhone 4 Launch Events, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane

David Cowling | July 20, 2010 | Comments (0)

Optus has confirmed that they are having a midnight launch event in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth for iPhone 4 Thursday, July 29. Who will brave the winter? Technically, the phone is not on sale until 12:01 Friday morning, but given the multitude of people lined up in previous years for the new iPhone, time [...]