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Twitter and Privacy: History Never Retweets

Ever had a case of the *tipsy tweets*? You know what I’m talking about. The type of tweets you’d never post to Twitter sober but that seem highly amusing after a couple of alcoholic beverages. The ones you rush to delete on Monday morning in a coffee-induced panic when you remember what or who you tweeted. Yeah those

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Reader Rescue: How Do I Target Specific Suburbs Using SEO and PPC?

Hi Kalena My husband runs his own business. He is an electrician working in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia, doing mostly domestic electrical work. We employ a pay per click agency as well as a web page optimiser until such time as I am confident to do it my self. We monitor each very carefully to try and find out what works for us. I am running key word research and incorporating suitable keywords into my husband’s site

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Apple causes international stir with iPad release

After a prolonged delay - purportedly due to underestimated demand in its domestic market of the United States - the iPad tablet computer from Apple has finally been released in international markets as of today. Countries where the device has been made available for sale include Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom, in addition to many EU countries. Despite a week-long delay due to stock issues, as well as massive queuing with some patrons waiting over 24 hours for a chance to snap up the game-changing device, many were more than happy to wait. “It’s fantastic, it was so worth the wait,” Rahul Koduri, the first in line at the George Street Apple Store in Sydney, Australia, told the AFP. Queues of over 1,000 were spotted in Tokyo, and the flagship Apple store in London saw additional hoopla over the release, as the world’s tallest married couple made an appearance to promote the Guinness World Records app. Additionally, actor and commentator Stephen Fry showed up to the launch event - where the store opened one hour earlier than usual - much to the pleasure of the crowd gathered. Fry said, despite the pandemonium, the “staff [were] very welcome to me. (Just to annoy more of you haters of the Apple ‘cult’” via his Twitter account. Unlike the staggered US release of the wireless and 3G versions of the device, international customers will have their choice between the two formats at the outset

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President Obama calls iPad a toy

With prices and dates released today for the UK launch of the iPad, Apple’s huge-selling tablet computer has been criticised by President Obama for being a mere “distraction.” In a widely-discussed commencement speech at Hampton University in Virginia, the President poured scorn on popular consumer devices, including “iPods and iPads; Xboxes and PlayStations,” for being “a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.” Apple fans have predictably come out in force over the President lumping Apple’s multi-faceted tablet together with devices intended solely for entertainment. Writing for CNET News, Brooke Crothers points out that, despite the prominence of entertainment applications on the iPad apps page , users can also download a plethora of education tools. From iBooks to apps such as ‘The Elements’ and ‘Shakespeare Pro’, it seems the President may have been short-sighted in his derision of the new technology’s educational value, though it remains to be seen whether the iPad can achieve recognition as a useful reading platform and educational tool. The good news for UK Apple fanatics eager to try out the much-touted tablet for themselves is that the delayed UK iPad launch is now close at hand. The tablets are expected to hit Apple stores in the UK, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and Switzerland by 28 May, and customers can now pre-order their iPad to avoid the store running out of tablets on launch day . According to TechCrunch, the prices for various iPad options will range from

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Are You Relevant to Google?

Google lists results of all searches in order of relevance to the search words. How do you become relevant? It’s no use being number nine hundred in order of relevance if people searching Google only look at the first ten or twenty listed. It’s no use having the best looking website if nobody sees it. Never mind, you say, I can pay to be at the top of Google. Yes you can pay a lot to be a sponsored or pay per click website

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Google Rolling Out New SERP Design

BREAKING: So apparently Google have rolled out a new home page to some regional datacenters today, with significant changes to both the search function and Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). Search Engine College tutor Micky Stuivenberg ( @contentwriteroz ) alerted me to the changes via Twitter – which she had been observing on Google Australia since midday today. Micky says she is seeing the following: 1) The radio button options that used to appear under the search box at Google.com.au to Search: *the web* or *pages from Australia* have disappeared. 2) A searcher’s default location now appears under the search box on the SERPs (Micky’s says Sydney although she is located on the NSW mid North coast).

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Firefox claims 30 per cent of worldwide share

Mozilla this week released its first ever quarterly report in which it claims to have just under 30 per cent of the browser market. Mozilla’s browser, Firefox, is strongest in Europe (39.2 per cent of web access) followed by South America (31.1 per cent), Africa (29.7 per cent) and North America (26 per cent). Usage has grown most rapidly in Russia - where Mozilla’s Mitchell Baker visited in February - which saw a 20 per cent increase since the turn of the year. Other countries showing an increase of 15 per cent of more this quarter included Australia, India, Indonesia, Mexico and Turkey. Other stats showed that users in Asian countries made use of the most add-ons and the average user had two or three tabs open at any one time, although there was a recorded instance of someone with 600 tabs open

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Building links from universities naturally

It’s widely believed among search marketers that links from educational resources such as universities (.edu) and colleges (.ac.uk) can significantly influence your rankings. While link building for a client, big mouth media was inadvertently provided with documentation describing a list of requirements that scholars must obey when linking to (or citing) electronic documents such as webpages. Here’s how our conversation went: Bigmouth: “Hey, I think this website would be a good resource for your research on apples.” Scholar: “I agree; thanks for the tip. Can you provide me with a last modified date?” Bigmouth: “Why do you need a last modified date?” Scholar: “Before linking or citing websites, we need to provide a last modified date, amongst other criteria, so people can match the date of viewing to the citation to look for changes etc.” The scholar then provided big mouth media with a link to documents that describe the legal requirements when citing an electronic document. These documents suggest users provide the following details for each citation: Author Surname, Initial

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New cyber attacks target Yahoo! in China

Internet giant Yahoo! has been the target of a new outbreak of cyber attacks originating in China and Taiwan, targeting the e-mail accounts of international journalists working in the countries. The eight confirmed attacks on Yahoo! accounts were reported by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC), a Beijing-based press association that has criticised Yahoo! for failing to reveal details of the incidents to those affected. A spokesperson told the news agency: “Yahoo has not answered the FCCC’s questions about the attacks, nor has it told individual mail users how the accounts were accessed.” The BBC reports that one of the journalists affected was Irish Times correspondent Clifford Coonan, who received an error message when he tried logging into his Yahoo! account earlier this week. Mr Coonan said: “I don’t know who’s doing it, what happened. They [Yahoo!] haven’t given any information, but it seems to be happening to journalists and academics in China, so that’s why it’s a little suspicious.” Yahoo!’s only statement on the matter was that the company is “committed to protecting user security and privacy.” Yahoo! previously supported Google in publicly condemning the Chinese cyber-attacks that affected its rival in December, causing the company to face criticism from its Chinese owners the Alibaba Group due to the lack of evidence available at the time. Yahoo! never revealed whether it had itself been a target of the original attacks, and is remaining similarly tight-lipped about the latest incidents this time around, despite the evidence

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MySpace Music launches in UK

MySpace is the latest site to launch its own dedicated music download and streaming service for UK users. MySpace Music launched last September in the United States , but has now expanded to include a UK offering, competing directly with the range of music download services from the likes of Spotify , MSN Music , Sky Songs and Google’s OneBox . Despite the tough competition, the BBC reports that MySpace Music bosses are confident that their service will come out on top - particularly as they have teamed up with Apple iTunes to offer DRM-free MP3 downloads from their own exhaustive catalogue.

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