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Facebook Tests Pages Feed, Letting Fans See All Posts From Pages

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:44:10 +1000

Facebook Tests Pages Feed, Letting Fans See All Posts From Pages

"While 90% of respondents claim to understand the impact that social media can have on their..."

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 09:37:09 +1000

“While 90% of respondents claim to understand the impact that social media can have on their organization, only 32% of their companies monitor social media to detect risks to their business activities and 14% use metrics from social media to measure corporate performance.”

- http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/cldr/research/surveys/social.html

9 tips for being seen and heard through the noise of Facebook

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 13:24:53 +1000

9 tips for being seen and heard through the noise of Facebook:

Great article: some simple tips for FB managers in small and large businesses.

Don't let your visitors off too easily! Remarketing comes to Adwords

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 12:01:21 +1000

Remarketing has been around a little while online - but with the launch on Google’s Adwords platform it has suddenly become a very accessible tool for all.

What is it? Remarketing is a feature that lets you reach people who have previously visited your site, and show them relevant ads when they visit other sites

Google Launches Remarketing in Search in Beta: for details visit Adwords Help.

"RIP Google Weather API"

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:00:15 +1000

“RIP Google Weather API”

- Last month, Google announced plans to shutter iGoogle, among a bunch of other services. Many developers and users were (and still are) outraged, but at least they have some time to breathe: iGoogle isn’t going away until November 1, 2013. That means there are still 15 months left to adjust and export your data. Yet some changes are already starting to take effect: the company’s private Weather API, for example, appears to be dead in the water.

http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/08/28/did-google-just-quietly-kill-private-weather-api/

Cairns Airport web site reskin by ZOIK!

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:08:24 +1000

Cairns Airport web site reskin by ZOIK!

techspotlight: Over 15 days between the end of August and the...

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:59:19 +1000

techspotlight:

Over 15 days between the end of August and the middle of September, many of the major technology companies will announce products that will shape the mobile device market for the next year or two. (via Smartphone launches set for two week rush - Telegraph)

AVIEX: new web site by ZOIK

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 22:09:22 +1000

AVIEX: new web site by ZOIK:

AVIEX offers a comprehensive range of engineering and airline support services and has grown into a modern, capable externally focussed technical group able to meet all of Civil or Military transport operators needs.

"Savvy young shoppers are going into stores to browse and try clothes and shoes on, then going home..."

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:55:44 +1000

“Savvy young shoppers are going into stores to browse and try clothes and shoes on, then going home and researching cheaper prices and ordering – most likely from overseas – online”

- B & T Online

Facebook Pages get administrator roles Read this article for...

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:39:30 +1000

Facebook Pages get administrator roles

Read this article for more details on the changes

online retailer to penalise IE7 browsers

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:13:42 +1000

online retailer to penalise IE7 browsers:

ONLINE electronics retailer Kogan.com has announced it will be charging customers a 6.8 per cent penalty if they use the “antique” browser Internet Explorer 7 to buy their products.

Kogan said that by penalising customers for using IE7 he was “doing our bit” to make the internet a better place.

8 good tips to improve Adwords Advertising

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:48:54 +1000

8 good tips to improve Adwords Advertising:

Geo targeting, ad extensions and managing low quality scores are just three of 8 usefult tips in this article.

Mobile page views soar as online activity falls

Tue, 29 May 2012 15:08:38 +1000

Less Australians went online in April than March but mobile page views have continued to soar throughout the last 12 months, according to Nielsen’s new ‘Australian online landscape review’.

The report, which provides a snapshot of Australia’s online habits for April 2012 compared to March, reveals that while the number of online Australians has dropped over 5% month-on-month to 15.3 million, views of mobile pages have skyrocketed by 182% to 221,192,586 in April this year.

Source: BandT

It’s 4th of May: Happy Star Wars day Chewwy!

Thu, 03 May 2012 09:09:19 +1000

It’s 4th of May: Happy Star Wars day Chewwy!

iPad cracks top 5 mobile devices

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:46:52 +1000

Mobile advertising impressions shot up 156% last year with Apple devices accounting for more than half of those, according to the latest figures from InMobi.

The iPhone leads the way as the most used device with 43.7% of impressions, with iPod second on 5.6%, the Samsung Galaxy SII third (4.9%), iPad fourth (4.7%) and Blackberry 9700 fifth on 4%.

Overall Apple devices accounted for 53% of impressions, with Samsung devices on 12%.

Source: B&T

New Facebook Cover Images have landed. We have updated a bunch...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:50:00 +1000

New Facebook Cover Images have landed. We have updated a bunch - including this one for Townsville Airport. Have you updated yours? (Don’t forget to resize your Facebook Apps!)

Facebook Fan Page shake up: less than 30 days and counting

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:12:32 +1000

Out go welcome pages - in come cover images. On the new Timeline, page tab creators now get an 810-pixel-wide area to work with, as opposed to the old 520 pixels, which will allow for much greater design freedom.

Read this great article for background.

Woolies to be the first bricks and mortar to top $1 billion online

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 08:13:07 +1000

SMH reports Australian retailer Woolworths is projecting annual online sales will reach $1 billion by 2014 - buying on web sites and smart phone applications.

Accessing the Internet by mobile device doubled in 2011, data shows.

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:25:57 +1000

Over the past 12 months, mobile access to the Internet nearly doubled to 8.5%, not counting tablets, according to data released this week by StatCounter, a Web analytics company.

The vast majority of Internet usage is still tied to desktop PCs, the data shows. Yet in the fast-growing mobile space, the name that dominates the PC world, Microsoft, is invisible. Nokia remains the leading mobile vendor worldwide, but the Web page-view numbers show a company in decline over the past year, as is Research in Motion, when compared to Apple. The growing mobile operating systems are iOS and Android.

Source: ComputerWorld

BBC News - Google persuades Spanish bank BBVA to use the cloud

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:18:29 +1000

BBC News - Google persuades Spanish bank BBVA to use the cloud:

techspotlight:

Spanish banking giant BBVA is switching its 110,000 staff to use Google’s range of enterprise software. The deal is the biggest that the search giant has signed with one company for its cloud-computing services, where software is offered as a service via the internet. The bank told the BBC it will use Google’s tools only for internal communication