May 15th, 2008
Drive your savings further with a credit card that gives you automatic savings on everything you buy.
With the BP-Citibank MasterCard the money you save is simply credited to your account. Apply for a BP-Citibank MasterCard before June 30, 2008: 10% off your petrol and everything else you buy at BP for three months. After the 3 months you’ll continue to save 5% off everything at BP
May 13th, 2008
Facebook is raising $100 million in debt, bringing their total capital raised to nearly half a billion dollars. This most recent round will be used to scale the service via another 50,000 or so servers. Facebook now has over 70 million active users and around 109 M monthly visitors - Compare that to Google, which operates at least a million servers (and is adding 500,000 per year, says Business Week), and Microsoft, which is adding 200,000 servers per year.
Facebook says that “less than 1,000? users have 5,000 friends today. There are around 70 million active Facebook users, so the number of users who are affected is around one thousandth of a percent.
May 12th, 2008
The 2008-09 Budget Papers will be available after 7:30 pm, Tuesday 13 May 2008 from www.budget.gov.au and from Department of Finance and Deregulation, Australian Taxation Office, australia.gov.au and Parliament of Australia.
I bet theres a few dollars set aside for me…
May 7th, 2008
St George burnt by credit dragon and cuts forecast: The global credit crisis and sharemarket turmoil have forced St George Bank to cut its earnings forecast for the rest of this financial year from 10% to as low as 8%, after first-half core profit growth slowed to 6%.
Oh dear, poor st george bank. does that mean their variable interest rates will rise 2 times every month on personal loans??? OF COURSE it does.
St George, don’t your directors buy newspapers and milk and bread and have families to feed as well?
quote: ‘the amount of distributable profit to shareholders by 10% to just $514 million’ - IS that all? read more about this event >>
May 7th, 2008
Steve Danzig
Title:
Anthropo-ecosophy
Medium:
works on paper
soundscape/video projection
lightbox installation
Images:
1. Anthropo-ecosophy image gallery
Essays on Anthropo:
1. Stephen Rainbird - senior curator QUT art Museum
2. Dr Stephen Jones - Australian academic
3. Laurence Gartel - digital media pioneer
Statement:
The title is a mix of two words: Anthropomorphic and Ecosophy.
Check outhe IDA latest offering from Steve D - brilliant.
May 5th, 2008
In the 1970s they were cutely called hot pants, the successor to the miniskirt, and were a huge rage. That was followed by a revival in the 1980s. More than 20 years on, hot pants are hot again this season, with major fashion labels offering grown-up and glamorised remakes. {thank you! - ed}
In the entertainment industry, hot pants have long had an illustrious presence – Raquel Welch and Brigitte Bardot were among the sex sirens who drove the guys crazy by squeezing themselves into tight, little and oh-so-hot pants in the 1970s. This time, it is the likes of Jessica Simpson who have helped bring hot pants back in vogue.
Teen pop sensations Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera were practically born into the music industry wearing hot pants, although at her worst, Spears embraced the hooker-shorts look – torn fishnets and cleavage bearing tops – while Aguilera is currently channelling Marilyn Monroe in her 1950s glamour puss styling.
May 4th, 2008
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MELBOURNE teenager Corey - whose MySpace mega-party drew 500 drunken teens to his holidaying parents’ home - has been arrested by police who are considering … |
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14 Jan 2008 … Melbourne youth faces party bill … Corey Delaney is reported to have advertised his party on the internet and by text messages and it … |
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14 Jan 2008 … Corey Delaney said he could not remember much of the party … have attacked police during a wild party in the Australian city of Melbourne. … |
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16 Jan 2008 … Cory Worthington`s Melbourne Street Party. 500 teenagers. Police cars damaged. Bottles thrown at cops. Police helicopters called in. |
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16 Jan 2008 … Executive summary: Australian kid threw a party in Melbourne while his parents …. |
But as the host of perhaps Melbourne’s biggest-ever teen party, Corey Delaney isn’t able to recall much of the big night. “I can’t remember. …
May 4th, 2008
Summary Of Today’s News: Negotiations between Yahoo and Microsoft, widely expected to result in a negotiated deal by Monday, fell apart today. There were a number of statements, all summarized below.
Listen to the special Microsoft/Yahoo Gillmor Gang here,
TAG: Steve Gillmor, Michael Arrington, Doc Searls, Dan Farber, Dana Gardner, Robert Anderson, and Robert Scoble.
May 3rd, 2008
ONCE supermodel Kate Moss and her former rock star boyfriend Pete Doherty exclusively personified the intoxicating relationship between music and fashion. These days, musicians don’t blindly follow trends: they create them. The merging of fashion and music is such that festivals and events such as the MTV Australia Awards have become an alternative catwalk. No doubt designers will be incorporating into their next collections Madonna’s boxer thigh-high boots that she’s been sporting for her new album Hard Candy. Already the internet is flooded with requests from fashionistas about where to buy them.
Designers embrace their musical muse | The Australian
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197…
Once Hollywood’s leading ladies delivered the super-luxe style. However, with Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie and Nicole Richie all in motherhood mode, designers have filled the void with rock stars that wouldn’t know an It Girl if hit by one.
May 2nd, 2008
Video SEO Can Give Small Businesses An Edge - “Many of us in the online video advertising space have been encouraging small businesses to deploy video to stand out in search results and level the playing field with larger competitors.”
Big picture, search marketing that leverages video will be among the most effective ways to market, specifically when video gets decent placement in search results and can show that it drives action.
