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	<description>Webmastering in Australia: Thoughts &#38; News</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The beginning of the end for Twitter</title>
		<link>http://ozwebmasters.com/wp/2010/08/28/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fail!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over at TechCrunch, Paul Carr has written a piece entitled: Thnks Fr Th Mmrs: The Rise Of Microblogging, The Death Of Posterity.
I have always been convinced that Twitter has no future. For the following reasons:

Being text and link only is too restrictive
Easily replicated by any other mass communication service (ie Facebook updates)
It&#8217;s a fad - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft - Still Getting It Wrong</title>
		<link>http://ozwebmasters.com/wp/2008/04/28/microsoft-still-getting-it-wrong-2/</link>
		<comments>http://ozwebmasters.com/wp/2008/04/28/microsoft-still-getting-it-wrong-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Big Business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[microsoft]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have at times been very impressed with the efforts some Microsoft departments have made to be hip &#038; cool. But in so many ways they are stil idiots!
Hotmail - bulk delete of spam, no &#8220;are you sure&#8221;
Microsoft Partner Program UK - unable to enrol using FireFox. No respect for the possibility that FireFox is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>eBay to ACCC - please let us have a payment monopoly</title>
		<link>http://ozwebmasters.com/wp/2008/04/20/ebay-to-accc-please-let-us-have-a-payment-monopoly/</link>
		<comments>http://ozwebmasters.com/wp/2008/04/20/ebay-to-accc-please-let-us-have-a-payment-monopoly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Big Business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[eBay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[eBay has asked for special permission to have PayPal as the only means of paying for items on their site. A good discussion as to why this should not be allowed is at IT Wire.
]]></description>
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		<title>Network Solutions Get Greedy</title>
		<link>http://ozwebmasters.com/wp/2008/04/12/network-solutions-get-greedy/</link>
		<comments>http://ozwebmasters.com/wp/2008/04/12/network-solutions-get-greedy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hosting &amp; Domain Names]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not happy with having a tidy little monopoly on aspects of the domain name business, they&#8217;ve now begun a very sneeky, dirty tactic. Basically, if you use NS for hosting, and someone visits a page on your site that doesn&#8217;t exist, they serve ads and keep the profits. Not only is this unethical, it can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BRW Magazine - no good at math?</title>
		<link>http://ozwebmasters.com/wp/2008/02/24/brw-magazine-no-good-at-math/</link>
		<comments>http://ozwebmasters.com/wp/2008/02/24/brw-magazine-no-good-at-math/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[RANT]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[brw]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A subscription flyer dated 8 Feb 2008 lists numerous reasons why I should subscribe. One of those is the opening sentence, which says:
&#8220;&#8230;but for less than $5 a week, BRW really is your best investment.&#8221;
At the bottom of the page the price for a 50 issue subscription is $199, incl. GST.
$199 divided by 50 is&#8230;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1 Million Aussie Domain Names!</title>
		<link>http://ozwebmasters.com/wp/2008/02/09/1-million-aussie-domain-names/</link>
		<comments>http://ozwebmasters.com/wp/2008/02/09/1-million-aussie-domain-names/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hosting &amp; Domain Names]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[auda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Late last year was this announcement:
auDA, the .au Domain Administrator, today announced the 1 millionth .au domain name had been registered.
‘We are pleased to announce that the 1 millionth .au domain registration is elite-finance.com.au’ said Chris Disspain, auDA’s CEO. ‘We congratulate the Registrant of elite-finance.com.au for being part of this momentous occasion.’

And it is &#8220;under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>31% of Australasians use FireFox!</title>
		<link>http://ozwebmasters.com/wp/2008/02/03/31-of-australasians-use-firefox/</link>
		<comments>http://ozwebmasters.com/wp/2008/02/03/31-of-australasians-use-firefox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Newsworthy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How&#8217;s that for a feel good news item:

 Almost one in three web users in the Oceania region – 31 per cent – were using Firefox, compared to 28 per cent in Europe and 21 per cent in the US, XiTi said.

 And I&#8217;m guessing many people are like me, still use IE occasionally for when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bye Bye Scrabulous?</title>
		<link>http://ozwebmasters.com/wp/2008/01/16/bye-bye-scrabulous/</link>
		<comments>http://ozwebmasters.com/wp/2008/01/16/bye-bye-scrabulous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Big Business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Newsworthy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[facebook]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Knowing how addictive it could be, I have been putting off adding Scrabulous to my FaceBook. Good thing as well, because like many folk I had just assumed that they had the rights to make it. Turns out the 2 lads from India didn&#8217;t, and they&#8217;ve been making money from Hasbro&#8217;s product.
It has been claimed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>phpBB.com PageRank drops from 9 to 5</title>
		<link>http://ozwebmasters.com/wp/2008/01/07/phpbbcom-pagerank-drops-from-9-to-5/</link>
		<comments>http://ozwebmasters.com/wp/2008/01/07/phpbbcom-pagerank-drops-from-9-to-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[pagerank]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[phpBB]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ozwebmasters.com/wp/2008/01/07/phpbbcom-pagerank-drops-from-9-to-5/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet another site has lost its lofty PageRank, and for good reason. phpBB is great (I use it), but the obligatory link from any installation of their forum is not a vote for their site. Yes, using their software could be seen as a vote for the quality and usefulness of the product - but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to buy links, and not get penalized!</title>
		<link>http://ozwebmasters.com/wp/2007/12/22/how-to-buy-links-and-not-get-penalized/</link>
		<comments>http://ozwebmasters.com/wp/2007/12/22/how-to-buy-links-and-not-get-penalized/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ozwebmasters.com/wp/2007/12/22/how-to-buy-links-and-not-get-penalized/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SEM expert Andy Beal provides this list of tips:


Only buy links from sites that are highly relevant to your web site content.
If the site you are buying links from already has more than 5 paid links on  the page, walk away.
If the site labels the links as &#8220;sponsored&#8221; or &#8220;paid links&#8221; or anything like [...]]]></description>
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