The new Google Search Wiki is now live. When you’re logged in to your Google account, you’ll see the new tools alongside each search result. Google describes the service as a way to “customize your search results with your rankings, deletions, and notes — plus, see how other people using Google have tailored their searches”.
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There was a flurry of excitement on Twitter last night as Kevin Rudd set up a Twitter profile. Strangely though as his follower numbers quickly grew, they then just as quickly disappeared to everyone’s confusion.
I read this morning on SMH that apparently interest was so great that it crashed Twitter! Asher Moses writes, “There were [...]
There was some interesting sentiment in Obama’s speech yesterday that struck a chord with me. Obama said, “What began twenty-one months ago in the depths of winter must not end on this autumn night. This victory alone is not the change we seek - it is only the chance for us to make that change. [...]
More...Here’s to Amazon’s ‘wrap rage‘ initiative! Wrap rage describes the frustration felt by consumers when trying to free a product from inpenetrable product packaging. The last product I bought I had to hunt around the house for an old bread knife just to open the plastic wrap.
In response, Amazon has launched ‘Frustration-Free Packaging‘ and a [...]
Here’s a good example of two brands partnering to create something useful for consumers. Fiat & Microsoft have created a new system called ecoDrive that processes driving data so you can get feedback on how to improve your driving to reduce your carbon emisssions.
Spotted by Springwise, read more.
The Labor government is planning to introduce mandatory censorship for all Australian ISPs, which basically means they will all have to act as filters to block access to child pornography, X-rated material, violent material and other inappropriate material on a government blacklist.
The problem with government-controlled censorship in a multi cultural Australia is the subjective nature [...]