With the launch of the Apple’s iPad this week, small laptops, netbooks, e-readers and tablet notebooks are likely to be top of mind for many working Australians. And the question for many will be: Is smaller necessarily better? Enter Amplify friend and tech guru Joel Montgomery from Powerbuy.com.au with his two cents on what to [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Twitter has just recently released an important update to their trending topics by giving users the option to go local. As explained on their blog, Twitter trends ‘began as a way to shed light on popular conversations’. It’s great being able to discover what’s happening in the world. It’s even better if you can only [...]
Has Google’s venture into the mobile handset space finally gone a bridge too far? It’s a question worth pondering with Google’s release of the Nexus One cell phone as the search giant now has the ability to develop a mobile phone primed to take advantage of its software innovations and its globally dominant search platform – a huge advantage on other handset makers.
While debating whether I’d throw my hat into the prediction pool and risk being wrong again about this being “the year of the mobile” (I’ll save that for another post), I thought I would instead put together a wishlist for the coming year. With inspiration from Brian Halligan, the CEO of Hubspot, I’ve put together [...]
If you’re responsible for Public Relations at Qantas you’re either looking for a place to hide or hoping you could restart 2010. In the first 3 days of the year, the reputation of the Qantas brand has been pummeled in both the traditional press and on twitter and the blogosphere after a number of unfortunate [...]