Category: Australia
Social Media event for Sustainability, Melbourne 25 May
On Tuesday the 25th of May there is a Social Media event for continuing and enhancing sustainability of our natural environment. Basically web, tech and digital folks are meeting up to see how they can use social media to promote sustainability of our natural environments in Australia and globally. The event is taking place at […]
Read More | ShareBlackBerry Australia Blockparty
BlackBerry Australia is hosting a big party in the launch of their new BlackBerry Pearl 3G smartphone on the 17th of June. My first smartphone was actually a BlackBerry pearl and at the time seemed to be way ahead of the competition (well there wasn’t any competition really to BlackBerry a couple years ago). I’d […]
Read More | ShareYahoo Australia launches entertainment news site
Yahoo Australia has launched a news service called The Hype that reports on all celebrity and entertainments news around Australia and globally. Yahoo launched a similar service in the US in 2007 called OMG which has been very successful and generating a high readership. The Australian service pulls content from Yahoo!7 Movies, Yahoo!7 Music, Yahoo!7 […]
Read More | ShareSydney Facebook murder twist
Police have charged James Dannevig – a 20 year old male for the murder of 18 year old Sydney teenager Nona Belomesoff. It is alleged James Dannevig set up a Facebook account using a fake alias – Jason Green and pretended he was an employee of the NSW Information Rescue and Education Service and lured […]
Read More | ShareFacebook meet turns to murder for Sydney teen
Police have found the body of 18 year old Leumeah teenager, Nona Belomesoff. Nona met 2 men on Wednesday the 12th of May after chatting on Facebook for a supposed camping outing but instead have been missing ever since. A 20 year old Leumeah man has been charged with murder, refused bail and will appear […]
Read More | ShareNSW Premier Kristina Keneally denies Twitter lies
This week NSW parliament passed legislation granting same sex couples to officially register their relationships in the state of New South Wales. However some concerned Australians asked NSW Premier Kristina Keneally why she was not present for the vote, via Twitter. Kristina rejected suggesstion she missed the vote because of her strong Christian beliefs/morals in […]
Read More | ShareBelinda Neal Twitter rant
New South Wales politician Belinda Neal has sparked an angry reaction from fellow Twitter users after she had a rant on Twitter about the Australia Labour Party all leaving the office early on Friday afternoon. Belinda tweeted “The NSW Branch of the ALP has all gone home early. The only person in the office is […]
Read More | ShareFacebook to review privacy policy
In light of all the Facebook privacy changes over the last 6 months, Facebook now says they are going to simplify their privacy controls. Many users have complained how Facebook has handled their personal information and sharing with 3rd party advertisers/ applications. Several well known technology bloggers have voiced their concerns for Facebook urging users […]
Read More | ShareSydney teen Facebook meeting goes bad
Nona Belomesoff, an 18 year old lady of Cecil Hills met up with 2 men she met off Facebook earlier in the week. Since then her parents and friends have not see or heard anything from Nova – her phone is turned off and all are concerned for her welfare. One of the men, a […]
Read More | ShareJessica Watson almost home, now with lots of Facebook fans
Jessica Watson has sailed around the world but is almost at home in Australia – and set to sail into Sydney Harbour tomorrow. At first there was much controversy if she should undertake such a voyage but once on her way Australia gave their support. By the time she hits home Jessica would have traveled […]
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