Photo of the day: I saw this cool Google car parked in Surry Hills, Sydney. It seems to be an Electric Mitsubish model. It’s not a Google Maps car, but maybe a test vehicle for some energy conservation project. Anyway here is the picture: Please ReTweet this article!

Vogue Australia has developed an innovative Social Media campaign for tomorrow’s Vogue Fashion Night Out (Thursday, 8 September). Vogue will be holding a Twitter treasure hunt through Sydney CBD – people can get clues from Vogue’s Twitter (and Facebook page) about fashion stores they need to ‘hunt down’. There are 10 stores in total they [...]

Sydney-siders, an event is coming up for you at the end of October – The Internet Show Sydney 2011 The Internet Show Sydney 2011 is the largest business related Internet Event/ Expo in Australia. This is a great opportunity to connect with other Internet enthusiasts and social media professionals. Date: 27 -28 October, 2011 Location: [...]

The Global Switch Data Centre in Pyrmont, Sydney is probably the best data centre in Australia in terms of specification, size and performance. I actually host this site in the Global Switch Data Centre + a many others. I have always been impressed by their professional attitude, tight security and quick acting remote hands if needed. [...]

Hello All, I previously wrote about my idea of making the Surry Hills (and Darlinghurst) Social Media Club. I am now looking to get the ball rolling further and have created a LinkedIn group where we can discuss the group in better detail and also arrange our club meetings. Feel free to join here: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3976089&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr [...]

Geolocation Mobile App – Foursquare recently hit 10 million users worldwide and is signing deals with major companies who want to integrate with Foursquare on an almost weekly basis. Foursquare has now raised another $50 Million USD from tech venture capitalists; Andreessen-Horowitz, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Union Square Ventures, as well as Spark Capital. Rougly 1 [...]

Scoville, a new Geolocation service has launched which allows users to share their favourite Foursquare check-ins with their connections, and comment/discuss them. Scoville is integrated directly into the Foursquare API and can access your Fousquare friends list (and also Twitter and Facebook if you wish). The aim of the service is for you to create [...]

Hello All, I would like to take this opportunity to welcome a new sponsor to the site. Internet Marketing Expert / Home Business Mentor, Zoe deLuca (http://markandzoe.com) is sponsoring the events section of the site. Zoe is one of the speakers at events held by The Creative Collective, a digital agency on the Sunshine Coast [...]

Sydney Twestival is coming up next week in an effort to support Redkite charity. Twestival (or Twitter-Festival) are offline events organised via Social Media (generally Twitter) in an effort to support a cause or charity. This trend is becoming increasingly popular and again this year Sydney Twestival will take place. Here is the event info: [...]

Today I received an email from Vodafone (as probably all other customers did) from Australian CEO Nigel Dews. Nigel goes on to explain that he and the company are apologising for customer dissatisfaction and problems experienced over the past year. They go on to explain growth has been fast, and probably too fast for their [...]

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 [...]

Social Media Marketing has exploded over 2010. Australia has been quick to following behind the USA and UK. Marcus Evans is holding an event – Social Media Marketing – The Way Forward in Sydney February 28 to March 1, 2011. This may be a good event for marketing professionals who have embraced the social technologies [...]

Imagine what it would look like if Sydney was destroyed in a natural, or not so natural disaster? i’d hate to think about it. However a British computer wizz has put together this video of our great city left in ruins – and it seems to have gone viral and getting lots of view on [...]

If anyone is looking to promote their business to a targeted audience of social media professionals and enthusiasts – I am interested in banner exchanges with other technology/social media related websites. Various banner sizes available on the site. If interested, please contact me

The Sydney Powerhouse Museum is embracing social media in order to connect with more people and details about the museum’s attractions. This Wednesday The Powerhouse Museum is participating in the worlds first “Ask a Curator” day , an international initiative to connect people with museum curators through social media. On this coming Wednesday September 1st, [...]

Am i the only person who think this is a little bizarre. Mosman Council has created a great campaign where HSC students can goto the Mosman library exclusively for periods of time to prepare for their HSC exams. The library will even give the students treats as ‘energy food’ to help their studies. Good stuff [...]