Tag: "Australia"
Bing Maps adds tool to estimate Taxi Fare for Sydney & Melbourne
Bing Maps has created a new tool to give you an estimated cost of a taxi fair from one point to another. The tool, very much still in beta mainly has US locations to choose from. However the tool does have Sydney, Australia and we are able to estimate taxi fares to and from various […]
Read More | ShareTourism Australia Facebook campaign going well
In 2008 Tourism Australia created a Facebook fan page for Australia and has now reached a fanbase of 500,000 people. To check out the page, Goto the Facebook Australia page on Facebook. Tourism Australia New Zealand Regional Manager Jenny Aitken says “The Australia Facebook page has been a great platform for relaxed and genuine conversation. […]
Read More | ShareAustralian Social Media Forum Launched
Hello All, I have launched a Social Media forum in an effort to increase dialogue amongst the social media community in Australia – in a relaxed and informal manner (to start with!). You are all welcome to join in on the discussion and create new topics on any areas you would like to discuss. Social […]
Read More | ShareCadbury Australia launches ‘Freida Smooth Moves’ Facebook game
As brands are constantly looking to increase their social media footprint there is an ever growing need to distinguish themselves from the competition. Cadbury Australia has taken on the challenge with aplomb and recently launched a Guitar hero-like Facebook game which replaces the axe-wielding likes of Led Zeppelin with a tap dancing cow and a […]
Read More | ShareBreaking down Facebook’s 500 Million Users
Ok, so Facebook has now hit the 500 million user make. Lets look at how this is broken-down. Of the 500 million users: 34% reside in North America 32% in Europe 9% in South America 3% in Africa 20% in Asia 2% in Australia Looking at Australian Facebook statistics, of our total population – there […]
Read More | Share22% of Time Online Spent With Social Media
Over the last year, the rise of social media has grown at record speed. And.. Australia still holds the number 1 spot of time spent on social media sites. Other stats worth noting: – average US worker spends almost 5.5 hours a month visiting social network sites from the office, either as personal or business […]
Read More | ShareApple iPhone 4 coming to Australia July 30 – with Free Bumper cases?
During Steve Jobs Antennagate press conference discussing the iPhone4 antenna problems, Jobs said that Australia will be getting the iPhone 4 on July 30. You would think that Apple will have to be providing free bumpers with the phone, but logistically may not be able to get them processed and shipped in time. July 30 […]
Read More | ShareAustralian Businesses Using Social Media to gain new Customers and Clients
Social networking has proven its success around the world in being a useful marketing tool for businesses and organisations. Australian internet users are also some of the highest users of social meida – we actually top the ranks globally in time spent on social media sites at around 8 hours per month for an average […]
Read More | ShareDigital Citizens: Crisis and reputation management, Social Media Event Sydney
Digital Citizens are holding Digicitz 5 next Tuesday, 20/07/2010 from 6:30pm. The theme of the event is: Crisis and reputation management: How to deal when the web gets antisocial Tickets are $10 each + a $1.50 booking free. To register goto: http://digicitz5.eventbrite.com For more information on Digicitz visit their site http://digital-citizens.org Speakers include: Matthew Gain, […]
Read More | ShareeBay to use Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Environment
eBay is the largest online shopping site in the world with 200 million listings globally at any one time. eBay is used to solving complex scaling problems but they are now looking for the most effective computing infrastructure that allows automatic scaling of their computing / hosting requirements. As a result eBay is going to […]
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