If there’s one freelance role that a large number of people want to get it’s social media marketing. Why? Because it’s a business concept that is interesting, on trend and a lot of fun to manage. Social media marketing is hard work, but the actual role itself can be a lot of fun. That’s why […]
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ONLINE property classified leader Realestate.com.au (REA) has commenced a major assault on the Asian online real estate market, using two newly launched websites in Hong Kong and Dubai as a linchpin to expand in the region.
CEO Simon Baker at realestate.com.au AGM. Picture: Bob Finlayson
Chief executive Simon Baker told the company’s annual general meeting that its objective was “to become No1 or No2” in every market in which it operated.
The company was now the No1 online real estate player in Australia, Italy and Luxembourg, he said, with strong positions in a number of other markets, including the UK, through propertyfinder.com. However, the prospect of growth in the Asian market is attracting most of Mr Baker’s attention.
In September, REA – majority-owned by News Limited, publisher of The Australian – bought Hong Kong’s leading English language property publication, Square Foot magazine, and last month launched a sister online property brand, Squarefoot.com.hk.
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Just another buzzy day in Second Life
Google News Alert for: “Second Life”
Cops Learning How to Extend Beats Online
The Associated Press –
(AP) — Raise your hand if you’ve heard of “Second Life,”
police Lt. Charles Cohen asks a room of about 75 law enforcement officers
Anti-social bot invades Second Lifers’ personal space
New Scientist (subscription) – UK
A software bot that masquerades as an ill-mannered human user
within the popular virtual world Second Life is being used by UK researchers
Canada Post launches in Second Life
DM News – New York,NY,USA
By Chantal Todé On Saturday, Canada Post will launch a virtual city
in Second Life, where online shoppers will be able to visit the 3D virtual stores of …
Canada Post founds virtual city on Second Life
Media In Canada – Toronto,ON,Canada
by Terry Poulton Yesterday, Canada Post announced that it has
boldly gone to perhaps the last place anyone would have
expected it to go: Second Life. …
‘Fujitsu Islands’ open in Second Life
Prdomain Business Register (press release) – Navi Mumbai,India
1 Nov 2007, Tokyo: Fujitsu Limited announced today
that it has created “Fujitsu Islands” within the Second Life
three-dimensional virtual world operated by …
Enter the NanoLands nanotechnology challenge in Second Life
Nanowerk LLC – Honolulu,HI,USA
(Nanowerk News) You probably remember our little “
Nanotechnology in Second Life” story from a few weeks ago.
Today, NanoLands, the nanoscience and …
Second Life jobs fair pays off for KPMG
ComputerWeekly.com – UK
Professional services firm KPMG has succeeded in attracting
potential recruits through a jobs fair on the
Google Blogs Alert for: “Second Life”
Will Second Life Anonymity Be A Deal Breaker For Business?
By Erica Driver
Second Life is an anonymous virtual world —
most people cannot identify themselves with avatars that
use their real names. I say most people because I suppose
there is a chance your name in real life could be
Forrester Information and Knowledge… – http://blogs.forrester.com/information_management/
RBS Launches World’s First Virtual Careers Recruitment Event in …
By Fiona Torrance(Fiona Torrance)
“Craig Hepburn, Global Webmaster for STA Travel,
told the audience how he had invested only tens of thousands
of pounds in Second Life (a fraction of what some brands have spent),
but by taking a sales-led strategic approach the …
Biz Blog Review – http://bizblogreview.blogspot.com/
Second Life 1.18.4 Viewer RC2 Release Candidate Update
By Joshua Linden
We’ve made Second Life 1.18.4 Viewer Release Candidate (RC2) available
Official Linden Blog – http://blog.secondlife.com
One year with Second Life Insider
By Tateru Nino
This is my 365th day with Second Life Insider.
Second Life Insider – http://www.secondlifeinsider.com
Do You Have A Home On Second Life?
By casasugar
Second Life is a virtual online user-defined society
CasaSugar — Home sweet home. – http://casasugar.com/
Service to enable virtual world, social and business networks users to make voice IDD calls to the real world, click-to-call service also offers advertisers new channel to reach consumers and businesses on these new and evolving platforms.
SINGAPORE. October 2, 2007 — Big-Bit Australia Pty Ltd, a leading virtual properties full service solutions provider today launched an Internet-to-Phone Service with Wusic, a fast-growing internet-to-phone service. This service will enable users in virtual properties to make phone calls from within virtual worlds like Second Life and social and business networks to numbers in the real world. In addition, leading brands can use the click-to-call platform for promotional and advertising campaigns to reach to these new and evolving consumer and business platforms.
This newly launched service is based on Wusic.com, an Internet-to-Phone (not VoIP) service that enables users to initiate calls from the Internet (Click-to-Call). Wusic currently interconnects with all countries and provides an easy to use system for initiating calls and tracking of billing records. Users have been able to save over 90% off their IDD calls by switching over to Wusic‘s Voice Service.
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Every Tuesday on AltSearchEngines we invite two search engines to discuss a topic that they are experts about. Tonight we are very pleased to hear from Maneck Mohan of Recruit.net and Lucas Mast of SimplyHired. I asked them a few questions about Jobs.
1) It looks to me as though most, if not all, Job Search engines are racing to provide the greatest number of job openings “on the planet.” Is that the real name of the game? the site which links to the most millions of job listings “wins?”
The number of jobs is important, but from our perspective the ultimate objective is not solely a vast quantity of jobs but rather in delivering a good user experience and thereby ensuring your visitors keep coming back.
Some of the factors that go into this include:
– Easy to use filters that can break down millions of jobs by company name, date of posting, category, city, etc.
– “De-Duplication” which is what we call our process of ensuring that jobs are not repeated, cross posted and duplicated across our search results.
– Authentication – which involves ensuring that the jobs are real, that the posting source is credible and not just “job spam” which is becoming more frequent with the global proliferation of free classified sites..
So ultimately it’s about the quality of jobs, speed, and relevancy (and not just the number of jobs!)
For Simply Hired, it is about bringing the greatest number of jobs to those who come to our site (www.simplyhired.com) or sites that we power, including MySpace Jobs, Vault, job search on LinkedIn, and more than 2,500 other blogs and websites. It is incredibly important that we search every place imaginable to bring our users all available jobs, whether you are looking for a job as an accountant in Los Angeles or as a tattoo artist in Topeka. If we can bring job seekers relevant content that they will not find elsewhere in one place, we would consider that a “win”.
2) Helping job seekers find job openings is one thing, helping employers find good candidates is another. What are your plans for the latter?
Read more at 
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Facebook has some true marketing potential for some companies. The question is which companies, and what’s the right way to use Facebook?Several recent posts have contested Facebook’s value as a marketing vehicle for companies, including the Buzz Bin post, “Beware of Facebook Frenzy.” In many ways, these posts are realistic reactions to contemporary media and A-List bloggers positioning Facebook as the social media panacea.
Facebook is not right for every company. But it does offer some companies a great way to market themselves. It always comes down to the community. Is the company’s target community on Facebook? If so, then perhaps Facebook is the right place. Here’s a look at some of the methods a company can use.
We look at three forms of marketing on Facebook: Applications, community development and advertising.
Read more at: Now is Gone
Fastest growing job-search engine clinches top award for Asian technology companies
– Recruit.net the leading job search engine for Asia Pacific has been named a winner of the Red Herring Asia 100 award for 2007.
Red Herring 100 Asia is an exclusive annual event honoring 100 cutting-edge private technology companies from across the Asia-Pacific region. The event brings together an elite roster of entrepreneurial and global venture investment firms to showcase excellence in innovation.
“We are honored to be winners of this prestigious award for 2007, and to join the impressive roster of ground breaking companies that have won this accolade in the past.” Said Maneck Mohan, Founder & CEO of Recruit.net
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It is rare that ordinary citizens get the opportunity to be honoureed for doing what they like…
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Here is the next Episode of princessa and the little lamb, with more on the ODEX saga, which iPhone and Little Lamb losers it over HAIRSPRAY… Proudly Produced by The Pacific West Communications.
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Recruit.net Launches Largest Job Search Engine For Malaysia…
Find Tens of Thousands of Malaysian Jobs from Hundreds of Websites in a Single Search: http://malaysia.recruit.net..
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia August 27, 2007 – Recruit.net announced today the launch of a new search engine for Malaysia jobs. In one simple search, the service gives job seekers free access to thousands of opportunities from hundreds of websites in Malaysia.
Launched in Hong Kong in 2006, Recruit.net is the leading search engine for jobs in Asia Pacific, with over 3 million job listings from across the region, including Singapore, Japan, India, Australia, and China.
Recruit.net uses proprietary technology to provide the most comprehensive, relevant and fresh job search site in Malaysia that includes job listings from hundreds of websites, newspapers, recruitment agencies, associations, and companies directly.
In contrast to traditional job sites that only display jobs from their paying clients, Recruit.net puts job seekers first by allowing them to search jobs from hundreds of websites simultaneously. With thousands of new jobs every week, Malaysia.recruit.net gives people a brand new way to search for jobs in Malaysia. Job postings include full time, part-time and all levels of pay from waiters up to CEO�s
” It�s great to finally have a job search engine for all Malaysia jobs, this type of service has been hugely successful in the USA and was sorely missing in Malaysia� said Malaysia full time blogger Liew Cheon Fong, author LiewCF.com, one of the most popular blogs in South East Asia.
�We believe that people just want one place from where they can quickly and easily search and track all the jobs that match their interest, and this is basically the core of our service. Malaysia is the perfect country for our further international expansion and we are very excited to rolling out our service here.� Said Maneck Mohan Founder of Recruit.net
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About Recruit.net
Recruit.net (www.recruit.net) is a Hong Kong based company that operates an international network of trilingual job search engines. Utilizing proprietary search technology Recruit.net enables job seekers to instantly search millions of jobs from thousands of companies across the world. Recruit.net provides a range of features to its users including, online salary checks, job trends, the ability to upload resumes and receive job alerts via email or RSS feeds.
Recruit.net also operates a Pay-Per-Click advertising network called adnet that provides advertisers with the ability to deliver measurable, cost-effective online advertising across a growing international network of partner sites and affiliates.
For more information, please visit http://www.recruit.net
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