Foursquare specials do attract customers in Sydney and Australia
We have seen the success of retailers and restaurants in the US using Foursquare as a marketing tool, but in Australia we have not seen all that much action yet. However, I noticed Wagamama in Sydney CBD has been one of the earlier businesses in Australia to use Foursquare as a marketing tool. The have […]
Read More | ShareTourism Australia Using Social Media in New Campaign
Social meda is playing a big part in Tourism Australia’s latest new global advertising campaign that launched today. The new campaign features a social site which encourages Australians to upload any images and stories that they may have from around Australia. Each image is then placed on a Google map of Australia giving a very interesting […]
Read More | ShareWhen Jetstar Met the iPad
The iPad is making it’s way all over the ground in Australia but now it is taking to the skies. Jetstar is looking at trialling an in-flight rental service for the iPad to be rolled out on selected domestic flights later this month. The iPads will be preinstalled with videos, e-books, magazines, games and music. […]
Read More | ShareTelstra launches Tribe® social networking tool
Exclusive to Telstra customers – a new social networking tool called Tribe® has been launched. Tribe® aggregates your Facebook, Twitter and MySpace into one single interface where you can access all sites from. Telstra customers simply browse to http://tribe.telstra.com from their mobile browser to access this feature, and there are no data / usage costs, […]
Read More | ShareiPad up to 2 million sales in 2 months
Apple has now sold more than 2 million iPad since it’s launch on April 3. A vast majority of these were sold in the USA but countries such as Australia, UK, France, Japan, Canada, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland are also selling lots of units. So far the 3G unit has been more popular […]
Read More | ShareACCC suggests product recalls via Social Media
These-days large companies are finding all news sorts of ways to interact and communicate with their customer base. The Australia Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has said 60-70% of Australians now have internet access and issuing product recalls via social media sites such as Twitter, blogs and forums is a good way to reach another […]
Read More | ShareApple World-wide Developers Conference June 7
So the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is on June 7 hosted in San Jose, California – USA. We know Steve Jobs will most probably be focusing on the new iPhone 4G and as to when the OS4.0 will be available to all other iPhone users. Many are speculating that Steve Jobs may also release […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media to Help Spread the Word About Chlamydia
The Australian Government is planning to use social media as the marketing tool of choice for a new campaign in place to help spread the word about the dangers of chlamydia. About 1000 new cases of HIV are detected every year in Australia and is increasing year on year. The Australia Government understands it is about sending […]
Read More | ShareGoogle crowns Facebook 1st in page views, Yahoo 2nd
Google has recently released more internet traffic data from their Google Adplanner / DoubleClick system. According to Adplanner, Facebook is visited by 540 million people monthly – which is around 35% of the internet population. Yahoo network is visited by 490 million visitors per month – 31% of the internet population. On Facebook approximately 570 […]
Read More | ShareRUMOR: Google search to be replaced with Bing on iPhone
There have been many rumors amongst tech news publishers that Bing will replace Google as the default search provider on the iPhone once OS4 is rolling out to devices globally. This is kind of expected especially considering that Google’s Android has been stealing market share from the iPhone over the last several months. Apple apparently […]
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