Sales, Social and Tech

As most of our friends know, my wife and I got married in December 2007. We made plans to go to Australia five months later. That plan never worked out as I found out my wife was expecting a month later. As first time parents, wife was concerned about herself and our child she was carrying. Hence, we didn’t go for any honeymoon. As my wife isn’t working now as she is waiting to apply for PR in Singapore, it is harder for us to spend on luxuries as the current uncertain times meant that we cut back on luxuries. Nuffnang recently launched the “Come Walkabout in Australia and have an Unforgettable Adventure!” where you have to blog about the type of experience you would like to have and share the great offers on www.australia.com with 10 friends and stand a chance to go ‘Walkabout in Australia’ for two! The contest website can be found here . The Nuffnang contest website eventually led me to www.australia.com . Australia.com is a website from the Tourism Australia. ...

As of this posting, several bloggers are in uproar against Nuffnang for banning Sisuahlai for a post with an image that the web2.0 advertising agency feel maybe be defaming them. Going through Sisuahlai's blog post, it seem like Nuffnang was responding to the wrong issue followed by the wrong actions. The consequence of it was the negative responses it got from fellow bloggers. Sisuahlai has taken down the post which included Nuffnang's reason for banning him. Cached post showed that Nuffnang wasn't happy with the image of the evolution of mankind that ended with the fading of the image to a bank robber. Nuffnang responded by banning Sisuahlai for two months. This made Nuffnang looked heavy handed and created a perception for the web2.0 agency only allows members who say good things about them and ban members who are critical about them. From the initial post , Sisuahlai asked if the 30 (Nuffnang)/70 (bloggers) division of ad revenue fair to participating bloggers. Ironic...