Jennifer Ross @Jenn was on a plane, tweeting away, when the plane ahead of hers ran off the runway: Pushed back – airport shutdown due to “an emergency” on a flight taking off to the north A couple of pages of updates later – THEN heritage media starts reporting it. I wonder what United Airlines…
Australia: social network and peer to peer activist group online for parents. Peer to peer support groups are all very well, but what happens when they get organised and take out advertising on TV naming and shaming your company for shenanigans? Parent’s Jury main page (the Fame and Shame awards is a PDF – don’t…
Happy Valentines Day! Please send chocolate! Mars gift application to launch on Facebook by Julia Buchanan LONDON – An application allowing users to send vouchers for Mars confectionary to friends on Facebook is to launch on Valentine’s Day in the UK. The application, named Celebrate, means Facebook members can buy a Mars product using Paypal…
Anyone watch the Second Life thingie on 60 minutes last night? You any the wiser? I missed it – did they mention that only 3000 Australians have signed up? Globally there are 7 million avatars – but only 1 and 1/2 million have logged in the last 60 days and I never see more than…
Every so often an off beat topic takes centre of attention (for a few minutes at least). Today it is the refusal by TV operators to carry Al Jazeera (the Arabic channel). In the US it’s Comcast who have backed out, in Australia Foxtel won’t play ball. Both claim that it is a capacity problem…
Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba have a superbly titled blog called Church of the Customer Blog. It’s at customerevangelists.typepad.com. Have a lookee at this bloglet Mentos and Diet Coke Chances are you’ve probably heard about and most likely seen one of hundreds of videos featuring the fun that’s possible with Diet Coke and Mentos. The…
Puff-puff-puff Yahoo in Talks for AOL Stake NEW YORK (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc. has held early stage discussions to buy a stake in Time Warner Inc.’s America Online Internet unit, a source briefed on the matter said on Friday .The source characterized the discussions as “informational” and said it was far from the level of…
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