http://www.amplify.com.au/blog SEO, Paid Search and Social Media News Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:28:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.amplify.com.au/blog/general/netbooks-for-work-or-play/ 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 ... http://www.amplify.com.au/blog/social-media/twitter-local-trends-relevancy-to-social-search/ I'm no lawyer, but 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 ... http://www.amplify.com.au/blog/google/google-nexus-one-antitrust/ 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 ... http://www.amplify.com.au/blog/general/2010-digital-marketing-wishlist/ 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 ... http://www.amplify.com.au/blog/reputation-management/qantas-reputation-takes-a-beating-offline-and-on/