Climate warning on future of Altona's Mobil refinery

" OIL giant Mobil could be forced to close its Altona refinery when the Rudd Government introduces a carbon emissions trading scheme. The closure of the refinery, which supplies half of Victoria's fuel needs, would cut competition and could push up petrol prices. Company...

Army to woo British Muslims

The ART of WAR...   " Military bosses plan to send serving Muslims back into their communities to encourage others to join the fight in Afghanistan. General Sir David Richards, Commander-in-Chief of Land Forces, revealed the move in an interview with an internal...

Junkie is the worst mum in Britain

" A FURIOUS coroner has branded a junkie mother irresponsible – after her three babies were born addicted to heroin. Stanley Hooper hit out after hearing Michaela Mullen’s daughter Chelsey was killed by a massive heart attack aged three months. Another of her children is...

Google News Goes Local

Respected tech bloggers like Jeff Jarvis and others have been speaking about the importance of the  'hyperlocal' and 'hyperpersonal' for quite a while. For the most part their attention has been focused on the untapped billions of potential advertising revenue buried in...

LinkedIn Introduces New Features and the Intelligent Applications Platform

new applications for social networking site LinkedIn.  API's Platform. 2008

MySpace vs. Facebook: Did Rupert Murdoch buy the wrong social network?

"Littlejohn at Advertising for Peanuts wonders whether users will get turned off by the social networking darling's shameless ad-whoring (kind of like friend-whoring?) but we doubt it. If there was going to be a meaningful reaction to MySpace's games of homepage dress-up, it...

Old Googlers die hard?

I have recently  become a user of Googles email, calendar, online document creation, Reader and of their wonderful personalised homepage. I've also started using a similar homepage based system called Netvibes which has a different, less clean feel to it (in my humble...

Google Security Hole Allows Account Hijacking

"It’s your worst nightmare – someone reads parts of your Google emails, views your docs, modifies your spreadsheets, checks out your reading habits on the Google personalized homepage or Google Reader, and goes through your search history. Yet, by making use of a new...