Monthly Archives: September 2008

Twitter popularity soaring in Australia

Twitter is picked up considerably in Australia in the last year.. This hitwise chart shows Twitters usage has increased 518.2% over the year… This chart only showing web usage, so that number is definately larger as twitter is a multi device platform. Thanks to Sandra Hanchard at Hitwise for the report The growth of twitter [...]

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Saying Sorry is good marketing

Found this post over at Zero  Marketing Budget Ideas There has been a couple really good examples lately of companies saying sorry, when they haven’t performed aswell as they should/could have.. I will try and dig the other examples i that had popped up a while ago.. So here is one the examples i could [...]

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I Heart Skitch

Skitch is a absolutely awesome app for the mac. Made by Plasq, the guys that brought you comic life, these guys are making some really great apps Drag a photo onto it, or snap one from your screen.. Use the cool tools to draw and edit it, resize it.. and then one click upload! to [...]

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Bad Use of SMO

Here is a poor attempt of using Social Media as a channel for promotion. “Seduce At Vbar” added me as a friend on facebook.. Because i’m aware to this type of SPAM, i naturally assumed from the name, that a place called Vbar is trying to promote a event or “night” called seduce.. At seeing [...]

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Street View vists Mobil fills up with petrol

Street view is semi new to Australia, and is great! Im in the process of writing my next blog post about a local mobil gas station… I check out street view to get a nice picture.. and got more than i expected..

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