One of the great things about my trip to New York was being able to watch a bunch of programs on Hulu. Hulu is a great service available in the US that lets you watch current programs over the Internet. There are a bunch of great shows on offer like House, Lost, Dollhouse and other shows not yet shown in Australia like Modern Family.
Unfortunately when I got back to Australia, licensing rules and IP addresses stopped me.
Learn how to set up Hulu to watch outside of the US.
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The below email was passed on to me. It’s from an Australia women, Alison Thompson (she will be in tomorrows’ Australia Day Honours List) who is currently helping out after the devastation of the earthquake.
Hi mum and dad – I won’t be around when they announce my award on January 26th. I am with Sean Penn, diana jenkins, Oscar and 15 doctors embedded in the 82 airbourne ( USA) Dante would describe it as hell here.
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I am not sure how long the new site has been up, but I just rediscovered one of my favourite websites from 2000, Airtoons.com.
Airtoons is a parody site of airline safety cards and had me in stitches on planes in North America in 2000.
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It seems to be the week I reminisce about my old employer, Expedia. Check out Tim Hughes’ thoughts on: Expedia trialling Wotif display format in Australia. Expedia.com.au has previously trialled this around 2006/2007.
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The Expedia.com.au blog has been surprisingly quiet recently. In fact the last post was over 7 months ago. Have they given up on the idea of the blog?
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Interesting article in the SMH yesterday, claiming that Bebo is shutting down it’s operations in Sydney due to lack of traction in the Australian market. Facebook dominates the social media pace in Australia.
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According to their website, Dropbox is the easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online. I could not agree more. I use Dropbox to sync my important files across my desktop and two laptops. Dropbox also gives you internet access to all your files, so you can access them from anywhere with an internet connection.
Features include – Sync files across your computers effortlessly – Access files via the Internet – Dropbox comes with 2GB free storage – Refer friends for an extra 250MB per referral – Upgrade to 50GM for only $9.99/month or 100GB for $19.99/month – Share folders with friends or co-workers – iPhone App now available
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Since I spent almost every alternate weekend at San Diego Seaworld in 1980, I thought I should head back on my recent trip to San Diego.
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The Top 5 users of Facebook have stayed the same since Dec 08: US, UK, Canada, Turkey and France. Spanish Facebook users have grown at 147% over the last 6 months, to be the 8th largest country of Facebook users in the world. Spain has grown the fastest, almost increasing their user base 1.5 times that of 6 months ago, from 2.2m to 5.5m users.
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On my way to Estonia, I spent a few days in Paris with my family. After a fairly average flight with Finnair (do not fly BKK to HEL, they still have the old planes with the big video screens that they keep on ALL night with movies or the flying map), our luggage didn’t arrive with us at CDG. Eventually it came two days later, so I got to buy a few new things thanks to Finnair. Lets hope I see the money when I put in my claim!
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Last week, I was lucky enough to be asked to take part in a discussion panel for the current AGSM MBA full-time class on Online Marketing.
Joining me on the panel was Christina Thurn, Senior Producer at Disney interactive and Ross Mcdonald, Industry Marketing Manager at Google.
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