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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>Are teens abandoning Twitter?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:38:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mashable just tweeted:
15 Year Old Says Teens Are Abandoning Twitter: Where’s the Proof? &#8211; http://bit.ly/87uJ2
The article refers to a report by Matthew Robson, a 15-year, 7 months old intern at Morgan Stanley UK about teens abandoning Twitter. Good link bait. This reminded me of another post by Peter Corbett earlier this year entitled 2009 Twitter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>StumbleUpon leans on BlogCatalog group administrator</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogcatalog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stumbleupon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[StumbleUpon (SU) is a recommendation (rating) engine. Its users &#8220;stumble&#8221;, that is, vote for a web page they like. The theory is that most people will recommend pages that most people will consider to be interesting. The reality is that most people who use the web have probably not heard of SU and the ones [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bing Maps for Mumbai are seriously flawed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I will let the pictures do the talking here. I looked at Bing Maps for my childhood home in Bombay, India, which is in the area known as Thakurdwar, South Bombay. Compare the Bing map on the left with the Google one on the right. Click the images to enlarge.








Look particularly at the streets in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Facebook Demographics and Statistics Report: AU and US Compared</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetMagellan/~3/LnSZ6tWWYB4/2009-facebook-demographics-and-statistics-report-au-and-us-compared-542.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[facebook]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.netmagellan.com/?p=542</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Tamar Weinberg for alerting us to an update by Peter Corbett about Facebook demographics for the US. The main learning there is that the number of 55+ year-old users has increased by 513% since the last check six months ago.
I don&#8217;t know if similar Australian stats have been published yet, but I just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Maps adds real estate search</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.netmagellan.com/?p=535</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As of today, you can search for your next house on Google Maps.  To do this, begin at http://maps.google.com.au. Click the link to the right of the Search Maps button, labelled Show Search Options. Once you do so, the link will change to Remove Search Options and you will see a drop-down menu, where you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEO Permalink for WordPress – the real deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WordPress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.netmagellan.com/?p=529</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I must credit my friend Prashant Karandikar tipping me off to an intriguing post entitled &#8220;Many SEO Experts Give Wrong Advice Regarding Wordpress Permalinks&#8221; by Weberz-Rob. That&#8217;s a great linkbait title if you ever saw one, particularly when he began naming these well-known SEOs who gave this &#8220;bad advice&#8221;, such as:

Matt Cutts
Joost de Valk
Michael Gray
Aaron [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheap Windows 7 Pricing Announced</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[win7]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[windows]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft and Amazon have announced cheap pricing for Windows 7 Pre-Orders placed before July 11. The Upgrade price for Windows 7 Home Premium is US$49.99. The pricing at Amazon is as follows:

Home Premium = $49.99 Upg; $199.99 Full
Pro = $99.99 Upg; $299.99 Full
Ultimate = $219.99 Upg; $319.99 Full

Click here or the button on the right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Brother MFC-235C Printer</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetMagellan/~3/EjwRihOtzo0/review-brother-mfc-235c-printer-506.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brother]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I prefer to use a product for a while before writing a review &#8212; my Brother MFC-235C is over six months old, but it&#8217;s still on the store shelves. As it wasn&#8217;t supplied by Brother PR but paid for from my own pocket, I was in no hurry to write it up.
My previous printer was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unwanted fax spam?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.netmagellan.com/?p=500</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have a non-business fax machine, as I do, you may get unwanted spam faxes from businesses who use UTBox, which is based in Sydney. UTBox has a &#8220;fax opt-out facility&#8221; which is after the fact, i.e. you can &#8220;opt out&#8221; after you have received the unwanted fax. The press release says:
To make it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Openly Profiles SEOs As Criminals – Says Lisa Barone</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetMagellan/~3/xen4ORjsDcM/google-openly-profiles-seos-as-criminals-says-lisa-barone-498.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I like Lisa Barone&#8217;s writings. I even followed her on Twitter until she started tweeting about the RedSox. Unfollow 
I&#8217;m disappointed I didn&#8217;t go to SMX Advanced, where a few major announcements were made and where Matt Cutts apparently was &#8220;openly stating that Google profiles SEOs like common criminals.&#8221;

http://outspokenmedia.com/seo/google-profiles-seo-as-criminals/

At this point you should read Lisa&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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