Tag: "Australia"
The Wrinkle Effect: iPads and middle aged Women
She reminded me of an older, modern-day Peggy Olsen. She rode the tram into Melbourne CBD, appropriately dressed for work in her suit skirt, blouse and predictable sneakers in the place of heels awaiting under-the-desk transformation. But instead of a paperback Stieg Larsson or a Womens Weekly on her lap, she bears a surprising accessory […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – January 2011
With Australia day over lets look at the Social Media Statistics across Australia for January 2011 – which sites are most popular? what is the trend? and can we see any new trends/ players in the Australian market? I think the most important stat to note is the number of Unique Australian Visitors (UAVs) per […]
Read More | ShareGoogle to Launch GroupOn competitor – Google Offers
Google is looking to launch a competing service to famous US and International daily offers website, GroupOn. Google tried to purchase GroupOn a few months ago for $6 billion, but the offer was rejected and GroupOn is now looking to go ahead with a $15 Billion Initial Public Offering (IPO). With Google’s huge resources, brand […]
Read More | ShareYahoo and Bing Australian Search Results merging this month
Last year in the USA – Bing replaced the results in a Yahoo! search queries with their own Bing results. Now later this month Bing will merge their results with Yahoo on both Bing Australia and Yahoo Australia. Therefore if you run a search on either Yahoo or Bing it should give you the same […]
Read More | ShareHappy ‘Social Media’ New Year
Hello All, I would like to take this opportunity again to wish you all a happy new year and prosperous 2011 ! I hope you all had great new years eve celebrations. I certainly had an awesome time and great start to 2011. It will be interesting to see how social media in Australia (and […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media – Australia
Over 2010 we have seen a lot of hype and leadership from the United States in regards to social media. Generally in technology and computer trends the USA (and then UK) lead the pack in user adoption. In Australia however, we spend more time on social networks per month than any other country in the […]
Read More | ShareTwitter endorsements to start in Australia
Keep an eye out for Celebrity Twitter endorsements to start appearing from Australian celebrities. In the USA particularly big companies such as Microsoft, Sony, American Airlines, Toyota and AT&T are sponsoring celebrity tweets. Basically the companies will pay the celebrities to tweet about their products. Some celebrities have hundreds of thousands or millions of followers […]
Read More | ShareiPhone Alarm clock bug to be fixed in next iOS update
iPhone owners in Australia are being woken up an hour earlier than the time they set their alarms for. The bug affects only recurrent alarms on iPhones that have the iOS4 operating system version. The issue is occurring because the alarm clock feature is not recognising daylight savings. Both the phone’s clock and the alarm […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Places now officially available in Australia
Hi All – a quick update to let you know that Facebook Places on the Facebook iPhone application is now officially available in Australia. You can now check-in and add new venues on Facebook places. What do you think? Will you be using this service? Do you already use Foursquare?
Read More | ShareCoca-Cola Australia marketing via Foursquare
Coca-Cola Australia has started a marketing initiative on Foursquare whereby users check into various venues and are given hints to find a winning coke bottle in a certain vending machine. The concept is called ‘The Coke Machine Fairy’ and also spans across to Twitter. It will be difficult to find this winning Coke bottle – […]
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