This week Ailsa is found on Skype tearing up the bitumen at 90 km/h from a talk event on the West Coast of Victoria.
We open with a discussion about mobile 3G data and the Telstra announcement of cheaper data plans for mobile phones.
We give some more Twitter tips and Ailsa finds some discussion senseless.
Google announce the release of Street view for Australia and Japan. Big Trousers office looks a bit drab here.
List your business with Google Maps for free under one category or you could employ an SEO company to do the work.
And article from The boy Genius that pits the new Apple iPhone against the business savy Blackberry.
A blog at Blogger or Wordpress.com for free may not be as useful as a blog that is contained on your own site.
Myer Fredman, famous Conductor gets a Wordpress blog and domain inside half an hour and a Google cached site inside two days with just one blog entry.
Cloud computing and the options available from Busy Blog.
The PayPal secret opt in for reduced fees found by Scott at W Revenue.
Check out the Brew for details of next weeks podcast that will be live over the P.A. on the Central Coast.
Opening and closing music by Velvedene.
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August 7th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Thought you might be interested that Dell are trying to trademark the term ‘cloud computing’ in the US! They had near final approval, but thankfully the US Patents office is now reviewing.
August 7th, 2008 at 10:48 am
I thought I could also tell you of a bit of a bodgy workaround sort of using cloud computing we have just implemented.
I have just added a plugin form2excel to one of my sites that collects form data as a Excel form and send you an email of the info every time the form is completed. This is a great time saver if you use Excel for analysis or as a mini database, as obviously there is no retyping.
However what we found was that the emails could not get through our corporate firewall as they are sent from the same address as they are going to. Obviously any reasonable firewall will spot this and stop it dead. What we did as a workaround was to send it to gmail and have gmail automatically forward it to an address behind our firewall. The added bonuses are that we don’t need to open our firewall up, we have a backup of all enquiries, we get great spam filtering and the enquiries are much more searchable in gmail if we need to go back through them.
August 9th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
This is really off the topic of the podcast, but it could be a great subject for the future. I read an article a couple of days ago that 59% of enquires made to Australian websites were not answered in a week. This is really bad, and as marketinggeeks we should be looking to try to fix this.
I don’t want to clutter up your comments too much so I have put something in my blog at http://simongriffiths.name/?p=54 which includes my thoughts.