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Now Advertising is a funny thing.. there are millions of angles people run with advertising to get their desired result. Sex appeal, comedy, graphics, rhetorical questions all get the target market to respond in a certain way.. Correct? That’s the basics of advertising..
Now if you read this blog, you’ll know that I’m not a fan of our [...]

Today I went out for lunch, and picked up the local paper to see the headline “RUDE TUBE” and a screen shot of YouTube - well that sparked my interest. After skimming this petty attempt at relaying technology news, I was so frustrated at what I was reading, I had to continue to read on. 
The story basically read, [...]

I’ve been a Telstra customer since I got my first CDMA prepaid mobile phone probably 9 or 10 years ago. To be honest, I really didn’t have any problems with my Telstra phone. I had reception anywhere and everywhere I needed it, and if I prepaid $30 here or there, it would last me the [...]

Well it’s been a painful 9 months since the new Labour Federal Government won the election last year. It was a no brainer that Rudd and Labour would win. John Howard, although one of the best PM’s in Australian history (IMO), ran the Liberals right into the ground and dug quite deep. So far down [...]

Google has launched the new addition to Google Maps and Google Earth, Google Street View. 
It is a new feature where Google has gone around driving up streets taking pictures of buildings from the streets view / perspective. Rather than from satellite, what we are use to on Google Maps / Earth. 
Tonight watching the News Reporter try [...]

I found this online, this is one of the funniest videos I have seen online in a long time. Well done to “ThoseArentMuskets”, note, some swearing is in the video.
You may only understand some of the jokes if you really do follow Web 2.0 websites.

Whether you write your own little blog your family reads or run a business online, everything is on the internet and you just don’t know who is reading it, or what they’re doing with it. Even having a MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook account can be rather detrimental to someone’s profile.
More and more businesses are Google’ing [...]

For those who follow the technology and those who don’t, you’ll probably know that Apple, the maker of the iPod, are releasing the iPhone in Australia July 11th, in true Apple style, the new iPhone has a tonne of new features, can do twice as much, much thinner than its predecessor, and even costs less [...]

In an age where less and less people have time for the crazy demands of the Catholic Church, it seems that the Pope and the Vatican have thought of some even more crazy rules, even after the new sins they introduced, which included being rich (Ironic from the richest organisation in the world?)
The new forms [...]

I’m normally not one stealing other peoples blog posts, and reposting it, but I found this on a blog I read, and it really makes you think, from a running-a-business-point-of-view

Do you have a market with a sufficiently unmet need?
(Can you articulate what that need is??)
Is the target market big enough to sustain your business and [...]