Look, we know we Aussies don’t have a big population compared to giants like the USA and China. But we are people. We have feelings. And we like things that are free. Or seem to be. Like ThinkFree Online, which is free – unless you happen to be Australian. In which case you have to [...]
Des Walsh December 9, 2007
ThinkFree Not So Free for Aussies and Kiwis
Filed Under: Business, General, Web 2.0 Tagged With: Australia, BigPond, Ismael Ghalimi, New Zealand, Office 2.0, ThinkFree, ThinkFree Online, Tris Hussey, Web 2.0
Des Walsh September 27, 2007
This Time the Whole World is Watching Burma, Thanks to Web 2.0
Yesterday I was dismayed to see so little media or blogosphere coverage of the crisis in Burma. Today my impression is that there is more mainstream media coverage starting to happen. It’s different this time around. Not a repeat of 1988, when 3,000 people were killed out of sight of the rest of the world, [...]
Filed Under: Blogging, General, Social Media, Social Networks, Web 2.0 Tagged With: AVAAZ.org, bloggers, Burma, cell phones, Irrawaddy Journal, junta, petition, The Guardian, Web 2.0, YouTube
Des Walsh August 7, 2007
Joining the Panel for Blogger Lunch at TechEd
I’ve not been alone in wondering about the usefulness of Twitter – Next Big Thing, The New Blogging, Complete and Utter Waste of Time??? – but I’ve just had a nice outcome, courtesy of keen user, Microsoft blogger Frank Arrigo. When I noticed on Twitter that Frank was at the Microsoft TechEd event at Broadbeach, [...]
Filed Under: Blogging, Business, Events, General, Social Media, Social Networks, Web 2.0 Tagged With: Broadbeach, Frank Arrigo, Microsoft, Social networking, TechEd, Twitter, Web 2.0
Des Walsh July 24, 2007
Ed Dale Is Launching Another Thirty Day Challenge
With a whole lot of other people from around the world, I’ve signed up for an interesting exercise, the latest 30 Day Challenge. It’s an extraordinary event, put on by Internet marketing wiz Ed Dale. What’s more, it is free. No strings, as far as I can see, and I make that observation in the [...]
Filed Under: Blogging, General, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tagged With: 30 Day Challenge, Ed Dale, Internet marketing, Online Business, Web 2.0
