Well I am not a fan of the Browser, but these ads are pretty good. I have found 4 so far, here is one S.H.Y.N.E.S.S. – Internet Explorer 8 And another… F O M S Internet Explorer 8 Can\’t remember the last time Microsoft had to advertise IE, must be a Firefox getting near!
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Twitter is becoming clearer. Now I have TweetDeck, Twitter becomes a much better experience, I now know when someone I am following has posted something up, and it even allows me to reply from within TweetDeck. Now the thing with TweetDeck, is that it is a program you install on your PC, think of it
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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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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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New Zealand\’s own Sidhe Interactive and their new game Shatter is up for an award after unwittingly keeping one of the 1Up.com journalists on the game for a half hour, after only intending to have a go for 5 minutes. To me it looks like a super suped up version of Arkanoid, some levels played
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There has been plenty of talk about online video. When Google bought Youtube, that seemed to be the end of online video sites, as they had with Google Video over 80% of the video market. However, Hulu and Vimeo have made waves for different reasons. Hulu is the one closest to Youtube in style and
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One of the best pre release implementations is Peter Jackson\’s District 9. Not necessarily the best marketed, as I only found a link to it when reading about something else, but once I had started to look at the things they had done on the web, it really makes me want to watch the movie
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I don\’t normally plug other sites, but this one looks like a good one for businesses in NZ – www.madefromnewzealand.com My biggest like is the tone it seems to have of a great place to be; lots going on, plenty of information on businesses, people and events. The other cool aspect is the social side
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