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November 30, 2008

Online advertising for real estate remains steady

The online real estate classified market shows no sign of succumbing to the advertising slow-down, according to REA Group chief Greg Ellis, who says the company expects to maintain revenue growth of about 50 percent this financial year.

Source: THE AUSTRALIAN - 1/12/08

 

November 27, 2008

Web 2.0 wins the election

Web 2.0 applications have a distinct advantage - interactivity. With these applications, content creation is no longer a one way exercise but, instead, barriers are broken down between information producers and consumers and online communities through wikis, blogs and social networking websites.

Source: THE AUSTRALIAN - 28/11/08

 

November 26, 2008

New money spinner for Facebook

Facebook has a lot to prove with the new ad format, which it began quietly testing in August and started making available to all advertisers this month.

Source: THE AUSTRALIAN - 27/11/08

 

November 25, 2008

Films are not porn on the internet

But now that Hollywood has trapped Australia’s ISPs with this copyright infringement lawsuit, it’s hard to see how the ISPs will ever be able to agree to our revolutionary anti-porn filters without a fight.

Source:  AFR - 26/11/08

 

November 24, 2008

Google labs getting creative

“Our jurisdiction is to come up with ideas to promote the Google brand - initiatives, projects, ideas, whatever it may be to help people stay in love with the Google brand,” he says. [Stuart Smith - strategic planning director of Google's Creative Lab]

Source: THE AUSTRALIAN - 24/11/08

 

November 20, 2008

Advertisers are using more online services

Advertisers found more than $100 million in new money across all forms of internet advertising - including search, directories and classifieds, as well as general advertising - to invest $450 million for the quarter.

Source: THE AUSTRALIAN - 21/11/08

 

November 19, 2008

White space fair game for gadget makers

We reported on the white space debate a few weeks ago. To recap: white space is the unused radio frequency bandwidth found between TV channels.

Source: AFR - 20/11/08

 

The long tail theory exposed

The long tail theory, you may recall, is the one espoused by Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson in 2004, predicting (among other things) that mainstream media outlets such as Fairfax (which pays the Digital Life Labs’ bills) would eventually be swamped by millions upon millions of bloggers, each of whom might have only a tiny market share, but who collectively would dominate the market, owning more market share that the big publishers and broadcasters.

Source: AFR - 19/11/08

 

November 17, 2008

Firefox is the smarter tool

We never thought we’d class a web browser as a utility, but freeware Firefox has changed our thinking. Version 3.1 released in beta last month is fast and agile, making Internet Explorer look cumbersome indeed.

Source: AFR - 18/11/08

 

November 16, 2008

Microsoft in the windows cloud

Thanks to the global financial meltdown, Microsoft will be hawking its new versions of Windows - and the ecosystem it hopes to surround them with - to IT chiefs who are now in a very different frame of mind.

Source: AFR - 17/11/08