Archive for the ‘Cool Stuff’ Category
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Doubleday, the publisher of Dan Brown's new book has announced that a series of puzzles will be used to promote the new book."codes, cryptic trivia, puzzles, secret history, maps, aphorisms"These will be made available through Twitter and Facebook.It is an example of the growing influence social media is having on ...
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
This is a real winner, Google is providing $75 worth of free advertising on Adwords for NZ businesses that have not used Adwords before.Google Adwords OfferAs a response the the current economic climate, the campaign is titled "Google Business Stimulus Offer" and is available till the end of August.I recommend ...
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
In the world of Twitter, ReTweets are becoming the defacto method of recommending content.While you can create your own Tweets and use a URL shortener like Bit.ly (my favourite) to point someone to a web page you like, ReTweets are the simple way to do it.However, the page you want ...
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
TinyURL.com, bit.ly and the new su.pr from Stumbleupon are all tools you can use for shortening URL's, especially useful for Twitter and other micro blogging sites due to their limitation on each message.However, I had never thought of the possible implications of shortened URL's, primarily the ability to hide any ...
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
New Zealand's own Sidhe Interactive and their new game Shatter is up for an award after unwittingly keeping one of the 1Up.com journalists on the game for a half hour, after only intending to have a go for 5 minutes.To me it looks like a super suped up version of ...
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