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	<title>Net Magellan</title>
	
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	<description>Ash Nallawalla's product reviews and search marketing (SEO + PPC) commentary as seen from Australia</description>
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		<title>Reputation Trend added to Google Maps – significance to Yellow Pages publishers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Search]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to a post by Tom Crandall in Smallbiz Central, I was alerted to yet another addition to Google Maps Place Pages.  For certain listings that have a rating and review at Judy&#8217;s Book, a new field entitled Reputation Trend is shown, with a value of &#8220;Reputation Trend&#8221; (I presume this will eventually show an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia is going Google – or nuts!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cloud computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Apps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Deepak Ramanathan of Google Australia has blogged &#8220;Australia is going Google &#8230; along with millions of businesses around the world&#8221; in the official Google Australia blog.
It&#8217;s a rosy picture &#8211; companies such as Konica Minolta, Rentokil Initial, De Bortoli etc have switched to Google Apps for their company operations. They no longer
have to deal with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Microsoft add-ons for Firefox blocked</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I fired up Firefox 3.5.3 this morning and was greeted by a strange popup that said that two of the Microsoft add-ons had been blocked:

Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant 1.1
Windows Presentation Foundation 3.5.30729.1


This was unusual, so I searched for other reports and was led to a TechRepublic .com blog post by Chad Perrin:

Microsoft makes Firefox vulnerable; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garmin nuvi 1390 GPS Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garmin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GPS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nüvi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Garmin nüvi 1390 GPS is a slim, 4.3-inch screen beauty that is currently vying for my attention, but will I succumb to its electronic charms?

Features

4.3-inch touch screen
Whereis map
Bluetooth
Lane Assist
Spoken street names
Route Options
Junction View
ecoRoute
Traffic (1390T model, not tested)

Navigation
Includes a comparison with TomTom GO 730
I recently used and reviewed the TomTom GO 730 before trying the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A better Google Maps from Yellow Maps NZ</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yellow pages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ypg]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yellow Pages Group NZ has done the seemingly impossible &#8211; it has delivered a better Google Maps for New Zealand with a beautifully rendered integration with Yellow (Pages) content. The clean interface is devoid of ads (so far).

Ensure that JavaScript is enabled and head over to Yellow Maps for a look. You will find Google [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TomTom GO 730 Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GPS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TomTom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.netmagellan.com/?p=648</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my employer Sensis&#8217;s other business units is Whereis.com, which supplies maps to some big GPS vendors such as Garmin, TomTom and Hewlett-Packard. I have been thinking of buying one for a while, as I am doing a lot of &#8220;Dad&#8217;s taxi&#8221; duties in unexplored parts of Melbourne.
Last Christmas our family drove around California [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take screenshots of TomTom GPS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GPS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TomTom]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.netmagellan.com/?p=671</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To capture screenshots of your TomTom GPS (at least works in a GO 730), do the following:

Connect the device to your PC
Use Windows Explorer to view the device root folder
Create a folder called screen
Go inside that folder and create an empty text file using Notepad.exe called capture (no extension).
Restart the device.

To take a screenshot, tap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Bing Search know Bing?</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetMagellan/~3/-eDuFXVqJBw/does-bing-search-know-bing-639.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Search]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
While doing my tests on Bing Local Search for IYPs, I noticed something odd. I was reading up on the Microsoft Bing onebox &#8211; the panel of eight local results and a map you get at the top of the SERP when you search for something including a place name. e.g. &#8220;Denver florist&#8221;.
First, I cleared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google testing Preferences link</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetMagellan/~3/1SHofSEwvmk/google-testing-preferences-link-635.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.netmagellan.com/?p=635</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While using the Google NZ and Google AU search engines today I noticed the preferences link had disappeared from its usual location to the right of the basic search box. It was replaced by a new Search Settings link at the top right. Here is the new home page:

Compare it with the Google.com home page:
Nothing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your directory is not bigger than mine</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetMagellan/~3/SkdUUTz2-R0/your-directory-is-not-bigger-than-mine-623.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Directory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IYP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Saw via the Kelsey Group blog that the New Zealand Yellow™ publishers have asked Tradesmen Direct (TD) to remove a claim on their website that it is the largest directory of tradespersons in NZ.

TD claims to have 18,000 trades listings, whereas Yellow claims to have more than 10,000 listings for builders alone, never mind electricians, [...]]]></description>
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