Archive for February, 2011
Bing launches new Bing Toolbar
Microsoft’s Bing has launched a new Toolbar with several integration points to make your daily internet browsing easier. The Bing toolbar comes with tools such as news (localised), Bing maps, weather, mail integration (hotmail, yahoo, or gmail), Facebook integration, Video search, a Bing text translator, and of course a Bing search box. This is extremely […]
Read More | ShareNokia & Microsoft partner, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop explains at Mobile World Congress
On Friday 11 of Feb, Nokia and Microsoft have announced a new partnership in the Windows 7 platform and building substantially together in this new ecosystem. Nokia was considering the Android platform, however the final business decision was more aligned to a deal with Microsoft. Here is Nokia CEO Stephen Elop explaining the deal at […]
Read More | ShareDigg stops publishers posting content via RSS
Social Bookmarking service, Digg, has banned publishers and users from submitting their content via RSS. It is believe alot of spammers were using the RSS feature to post their content onto Digg, and in return was a drain on Digg’s resources to remove unsuitable/irrelevant content. Since Digg updated their site last year they have seen […]
Read More | ShareLooking back on AOL, when online goes offline
This past week, US internet giant AOL gained worldwide exposure for their $315 million buyout of blog conglomerate Huffington Post. Hearing the news while living in the ‘land down under’, I realised that prior to this event, many Australians wouldn’t have known what AOL was (with the exception of some who caught the 1998 Meg […]
Read More | ShareBumping up your PHP memory in WordPress
WordPress has changed the way many of us create sites on the internet. Such an easy to use and customisable content management system (CMS) has turn many web-wannabe’s into WordPress developers. The possibilities are pretty much endless now. A problem I have always ran into is bumping up my apache server memory limit from 32MB […]
Read More | ShareAustralian Facebook users pass 10 million
Facebook’s head of U.S. agency relations Sarah Personette has released some interesting statistics about Facebook usage around the world. In Australia there are now over 10 million registered users, and 66% of these users return daily. This shows Facebook marketing is now able to reach a significant total of the Australian population. In comparison, the […]
Read More | ShareAttack of the Google bomb
There was a time not long ago when a Google search for “Holocaust” revealed top results indicating that it didn’t happen. In 1999, a search using the Google search engine for “more evil than Satan himself” would have led to the Microsoft homepage. Leading up to the Iraq war, an online hunt for “weapons of […]
Read More | ShareA note to Julia, from Tim.
This is a note from my friend Tim, to Julia Gillard. This isn’t really related to Social Media, but i wanted to post it up anyway – thanks David. Dear Julia. From Tim. You might recall that we met at the founding of the National Union of Students. I guess it was 1985. Myself and […]
Read More | ShareNews Corp ready to sell MySpace
News Corp bought MySpace in 2005 for $580 million, when the site was the most popular social network on the internet. At this time Facebook started to gain more traction and by 2008 was the clear leader in social networking. This equated to bad timing by News Corp, and a hugely successful product by Facebook […]
Read More | ShareThe 7 types of iPhone Owners, Which one are you?
Here is a cool infograph from All Area Codes about the 7 different types of iPhone owners you will come across. Whilst the info is geared to the US – still more than relevant for us Australian’s. Thankfully I dont fall under any of these categories, I think. Can’t we just be a ‘regular’ user, […]
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