Doubleday, the publisher of Dan Brown\’s new book has announced that a series of puzzles will be used to promote the new book. \”codes, cryptic trivia, puzzles, secret history, maps, aphorisms\” These will be made available through Twitter and Facebook. It is an example of the growing influence social media is having on the entertainment […]
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This is a real winner, Google is providing $75 worth of free advertising on Adwords for NZ businesses that have not used Adwords before. Google Adwords Offer As a response the the current economic climate, the campaign is titled \”Google Business Stimulus Offer\” and is available till the end of August. I recommend people take
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In the world of Twitter, ReTweets are becoming the defacto method of recommending content. While you can create your own Tweets and use a URL shortener like Bit.ly (my favourite) to point someone to a web page you like, ReTweets are the simple way to do it. However, the page you want to retweet needs
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For those of you who do not use Internet Explorer, Firefox have released version 3.5 of their browser. You can download it from here if you don\’t have Firefox or if you are viewing this from Firefox, you can request it by going the the Help menu and choosing \”Check for Updates\” Supposedly with a
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No one knows if \”Persian Kiwi\” or PK has any connections to New Zealand, however, it has definitely captured the attention of some media in New Zealand. What it doe though is highlight how Twitter has become a key issue in Iran. With the Iranian Government stopping the access to social networking sites like Twitter
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I posted earlier about a French Rugby player who was attacked on his way back to the teams hotel after playing the All Blacks in Wellington. After pressure from the NZ Police based on their investigation he has admitted to making up the story to cover up his being drunk and falling over a table.
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Mathieu Bastareaud was attacked on the weekend after his tram has lost to the All Blacks on Saturday night. After leaving a venue to return to the team hotel he was attacked and suffered a suspected broken eye socket and needed four stitches to his face. What makes this interesting, is that since there appear
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TinyURL.com, bit.ly and the new su.pr from Stumbleupon are all tools you can use for shortening URL\’s, especially useful for Twitter and other micro blogging sites due to their limitation on each message. However, I had never thought of the possible implications of shortened URL\’s, primarily the ability to hide any references to bad sites
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With the launch of Bing and some of the responses by Google, Collecta is a new small player, that could actually be a forerunner for Real Time Search. Using Google, Yahoo or Bing, finding social content has been difficult. Twitter, Facebook and other social sites have not been well indexed. People often use Twitter for
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I love the video section at Webpronews, they have plenty of interviews as they travel the conferences including PubCon and the most recent being SMX Advanced in Seattle. This video is one of the better ones as Rand Fishken covers off some really key findings from data collated on factors in ranking high in the
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