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Tales of domain name disaster, Dunbar, image libraries, and other related stuff.

Story about the loss of email due to a company takeover in the domain registration business. We recommend for most small business a domain registration from Melbourne IT.

False positive spam filtering in new systems.

New Zealand is more online by percentage than Australians at 90%. 45 million users at Twitter. Get your user number at Twitter in the source code on your twitter page. Ailsa is user 14,768,344 whilst Phil is user 70,7353. Twitter has grow 1067% since 2009. Twitter gets $100 million as venture funding valuing Twitter at $1 billion.

The Dunbar number that uses mathematics to reference your tipping point in this case Twitter followers or blog subscribers.

The use of stock photos has changed the face of advertising and we offer some alternatives. Some images appear too often as online image consumption has grown. As an alternative look first at Flickr or start with free images like this grunge set from Six Revisions.

Microsoft release free virus protection……

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Facebook advertising gets the final test with it ending in being unplugged.

Microsoft research coins the term Total recall to describe the possibility of being able to recount any moment of your existence by social media content.

Facebook Mom gets it horribly wrong.

Tweetdeck adds MySpace support as social media consumption hots up. Facebook notifications application looks a little like a Twitter client.

@Telstra on Twitter make a slight error in my book.

Search by location and how to get listed. Go to Google Maps and sign up.

Web form builders. A paid system that is a WordPress plugin called Gravity Forms. A free form builder JotForm looks useful. We use Cforms 11 which is a free WordPress plugin.

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Twitter has the big companies doing search for their brand in tweets. Myer Melbourne respond to Ailsa’s tweets about fingerless gloves.

Twitter does encourage this and provide a search field on their home page.

Twitter also shows top trending topics.

Google Latitude provides a geo location map that shows your contacts who choose to be included. See video below.

How to deal with comments on your site/blog. Bruce Keogh is finding that it provides an interesting problem at Benalla Online.

Facebook advertising and the feedback from stats not quite adding up yet.

10 Questions to evaluate a Social Media Expert from Converation marketing.

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This week we talk about Facebook advertising.

Thanks to web xopt for the comments.

Apollo 11 40 years aniversary on Twitter.

Ailsa wins a Women in Business award.

Facebook advertisment for photogeek.tv and a quick “how to” for those wanting to advertise their product or service on Facebook.

20 more unfortunate domain names.

Ailsa’s winge: put a photo with your Facebook profile.

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Phil & Ailsa discuss how long it takes search engines to recognize your website
What do you buy when you buy domain registration?  Phil and Ailsa talk about the pros and cons of cheapy domain name registration options.
Review .com and .com.au domain recommended suppliers
Just for laughs Ailsa and Phil discuss examples of people still not getting their email addresses right
Phil shares a Twitter Success Story, Korean barbecue on a taco.
How fake SEO experts cheat to sell you their products article.
Ailsa plugs Victorian Government promotion where you get to win AP Marketing Works marketing package.
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SBS story online video talks about Twitter.

The Age Twitter account posts RSS feed of their site but does not follow anyone.

Twitter trends as they emerge through tweettrends.

Big business struggles with Social Media.

Vehicle business cards pockets.

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We are back from an extended break from Marketing Geek with some news and opinion.

We welcome our new sponsor Prospect Wines of Williamstown. Ph (+613 93974559)

WordPress downloads hit 3 million.

Twitter surpasses DIGG for web hits recently.

We discuss Cache issues and IE problems with site files.

Paper junk mail now encouraging a website for junk marketing, perhaps as a way round spam filtering.

Higher quality verses affordability in product marketing during a recession. Some manufacturers do well despite the slowdown.

Sensis go green by offering to allow you to opt out of their Yellow Pages delivery.

Our Business Twitter directory gets underway and we encourage all our listeners to submit.

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Google search your name to see how social networking site content stacks up in the scheme of things. Little Nomads found his Twitter feed out ranked his site.

Posterous is a very simple blogging tool for those who are wanting something simpler.

Are the geeks in marketing mostly male.

Ethics in relation to web business as Ailsa asks if we would work in the porn industry.

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