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  • News calls in the big guns: set to dominate the Australian Internet Landscape

    According to the new News Limited site perthnow (thank god I can finally get a little bit of local news on the web…given the woeful internet presence of the Worst Australian), News has appointed Richard Freudenstein as chief executive of the News Digital Media division.

    Freudenstein was previously chief operating officer of British Sky Broadcasting in the UK.

    They are literally calling in the big guns now, with Freudenstein to lead News’ Australian charge with the local arm of MySpace amongst his portfolio of sites including News.com.au, carsguide.com.au, and foxsports.com.au. The list also includes the very lame attempt by News to break into the directory market: truelocal.com.au, which most Australians would never had heard off.

    Interesting times. After all, NineMSN only leads the Australian internet pack because it’s the default starting page for IE..aside from that though there isn’t a lot of redeeming features there…and of course Yahoo has teemed up with Seven for Yahoo7.com.au…at least a marginally more interesting site than ninemsn.

  • Scary….thank god no one took a photo!

    7am: a stumble outside in my pyjamas, my overcoat and my slippon Colorado shoes to wash ice of she who must be obeyed’s car…thank god no one had a camera handy….and yes, it’s that cold again…global warming my you know what, in the 8 years I’ve lived in Western Australia I’ve only seen ice on a car maybe 1 or 2 times prior to this year, this year I’ve seen it maybe a dozen times. Global Ice Age commeth.

  • News Corp now owns the most visited website in the US

    Amazing figures from Hitwise, MySpace is now the mosted visited website in the United States….and people said it was a bad investment, got to give Rupert Murdoch credit, he certainly knows a good investment when he sees it.

     

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  • Does GDrive point to a Google PC?

    Coaman.ch is showing a screenshot (here) from the upcoming GDrive, Google’s online storage solution. But the shot raises even more questions: what exactly is the “Google Computer” mentioned on the screenshot?

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    VPN-less access: Not at a Google Computer?

    So if we presume that Google is doing a private alpha test of GDrive across developers, exactly what is the “Google Computer” they might be using? Is it the Google PC that’s been speculated about for so long? After all, if GDrive is just an online storage facility, why would you need VPN access, after all, you should just be able to access those files, right?

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  • Andrew Baron is not evil

    Who’s spinning, and who’s telling the truth? I’d say watching this Amanda’s not looking some much like the victim any more.

     

     

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  • Big Brother twist: Camilla wanted to be Turkey Slapped

    With the storm in the tea cup still raging, Behind Big Brother reports on a as yet unconfirmed rumour that prior to the Turkey Slapping incident, Camilla was recorded saying the previous day that she wanted to be Turkey Slapped….that’s right, she actually asked for it! Puts a whole different perspective on it, doesn’t it.

     

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  • The new Rocketboom

     

    (via Valleywag)

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  • Rocketboom implodes like a North Korean Missle Test

    Vale Rocketboom 2006. It was nice while it lasted, I guess it will probably mean more traffic for zefrank…which isn’t a bad thing I guess. Coverage here, here, here and here.

  • Joel Comm and Eric Holmlund define irony.

    In case people hadn’t noticed I was forced to take down a couple of posts in relation to Joel Comm and Eric Holmlund’s Adsense spam program…basically our hosts are weak and gutless…but I’ll leave that till another day. But talking of ripoffs, it looks like Joel Comm and Eric Holmlund are in deep, deep trouble, because Instant Adsense Templates is apparently a ripoff of another program! I kid you not, and not only are lawyers taking action on this one, rumour has it that anyone who buys the templates and uses them may get sued as well because basically they don’t belong to Joel and Eric…from PrivateLabelMonthly.com

    Violation of Terms and Conditions of PrivateLabelMonthly.com.

    DO NOT BUY InstantAdsenseTemplates.com from Joel Comm and Eric
    Holmlund.

    InstantAdsenseTemplates.com has violated our Terms and Conditions
    by bundling the products of PrivateLabelMonthly.com and reselling
    them to the public. This is in direct competition of
    PrivateLabelMonthly.com and its members and had violated the
    membership terms and conditions.

    As a valued subscriber we would like to protect your interests and
    have contacted them to immediately cease and desist. We have
    already contacted our attorney. Contingent on their response, we
    will take legal action.

    To Your Success,
    Michael and Anthony
    PrivateLabelMonthly.com

    How did the song go?…oh the karma’s going to get you…. 🙂

     

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  • Gmail Grizzle

    Anyone else having regular issues with the SMTP for gmail? Seems now serveral times a day I can’t send emails from Thunderbird using my gmail account. Very, very annoying, particularly when I’ve still got pop3 access and am receiving emails with no problems, I just can’t always respond to them.

     

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