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February 25, 2009

The CFA is cloud computing the Victorian bushfires

Few if any people accessing the map of fires would have realised at the time, but they had just experienced the power  and agility of cloud computing; accessing applications online with computing resources scaled up or down at the flick of a switch to meet changing levels of demand.

Source: AFR - 26/2/09

 

February 24, 2009

Widgets abound for all applications

Think about web plays like iGoogle, Facebook and the iPhone and a proliferation of widgets abounds. They can be for internet banking, news aggregation or for blogging.

Source: AFR - 25/2/09

 

February 23, 2009

Yahoo! and Google battle it out

Yahoo! faces a slowdown in the online advertising market at the same time as Google steps up competition.

Source: AFR - 24/2/09

 

February 22, 2009

Online to continue to grow

Ms Field predicted online would be relatively insulated from the carnage occurring in traditional media companies, where advertising revenues were under pressure, predicting online advertising would grow “in the teens” this year. [Kerry Field - Chair of Media Federation of Australia's digital committee]

Source: THE AUSTRALIAN - 23/2/09

 

February 20, 2009

Obama’s internet campaign success

For example, the campaign created more than 1800 YouTube videos, which were viewed more than 50 million times and with the average time spent watching the videos hitting 14 minutes.

Source: THE AUSTRALIAN - 20/2/09

 

February 19, 2009

Google diversifies its services

With the closure of its print and radio services, Google is primarily fishing for growth in new areas online, such as selling graphical ads on web pages or ads on mobile phones.

Source: THE AUSTRALIAN - 19/2/09

 

February 18, 2009

Twitter for news junkies

Twitter is receiving serious attention for another use: news reporting.

Source: THE AUSTRALIAN - 18/2/09

 

February 17, 2009

Everybody loves Twitter

Yet clearly l am mistaken about Twitter. Everybody loves to Twitter about how much they love Twitter, and venture capitalists just keep pouring the money in.

Source: AFR - 17/2/09

 

February 12, 2009

Healesville under threat of embers

An urgent threat warning has been issued for Healesville, and the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) says the town may be hit by embers from the Maroondah-Yarra fire complex.

Source: ABC MELBOURNE - 12/2/09

 

Online advertising continues to grow

Online advertising has defied expectations that the financial crisis would also crimp its growth, with annual spending to December up 27 percent from a year ago to $1.7 billion.

Source: THE AUSTRALIAN - 12/2/09