Category: Sydney
Global Switch Data Centre Power Outage 14/7
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. […]
Read More | ShareSurry Hills and (Darlinghurst) Social Media Club LinkedIn Group
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 […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare raises another $50 million VC funding
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 […]
Read More | Share‘Mark and Zoe’ teams up with ‘The Creative Collective’ to sponsor our Social Media Events section
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 […]
Read More | ShareSydney Twestival 2011 coming soon – 24 March
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: […]
Read More | ShareVodafone apologises to customers, Great!
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 […]
Read More | ShareSearch for Facebook deals in Australia soon – facebook.com/deals
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 […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Marketing Event Sydney: Coming Feb 2011
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 […]
Read More | ShareThe Sydney Incident – [VIDEO] goes Viral
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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 […]
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New Geolocation service Scoville goes into Private Beta
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 […]
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