New Year, and New Sponsors for our Weekly Competitions. First of all, big thanks to 9289.com.au for the last 2 months — especially to Jennica and Nancy as they are very helpful getting all the prizes sorted out. And the sponsor for the next two months (January-February 2010) are… Zazz.com.au Zazz.com.au is pretty much the [...]

As announced on OzBargain forum, the weekly competition sponsor for the next two months (November and December 2009) will be 9289.com.au. For the first week, 9289.com.au will be giving away 2x “Elecom Scope Node 3-Button Laser Mouse”, where you can hold onto a mouse like how you normally hold onto a pen. An interesting gadget [...]

Okay. I was bored. Saw a friend of mine updating her status on Plurk, which is a micro-blogging service similar to Twitter (which OzBargain already has a presence with 1000+ followers). However, all your short messages get presented on a time line together with your friends. “Hey, wouldn’t it be nice to have OzBargain plurking [...]

Man, I love statistics and indices. The monthly Top 100 Aussie Tech Startups is something that I check every now and then just to see “how everyone else is doing”. TechNation used to use various traffic stats (Alexa and Compete ranks), but now have changed to use YouNoodle Scores. What score?! A YouNoodle Score is [...]

It has been a long time since I last blogged here (Wow, THREE months ago!). My involvement at OzBargain has been gradually changing. Due to other commitment (i.e. “work”, d’oh) I no longer have much time to sit down and write some stuff. How I used my spare time has also changed from talking about [...]

First of all, let me give a big thanks to Danilo @ ShoppingSquare for sponsoring OzBargain’s weekly competition for the next few weeks. We have been running our weekly comps since February 2007, and has given out thousands of dollars so far. From this Thursday onwards (4 June 2009), instead of getting our regular $20 [...]

We love social networks. September 2007. OzBargain released its Facebook application to let you see the latest deals posted on OzBargain from inside Facebook. In August 2008 I created the OzBargain page on Facebook and ran our birthday competition pretty much on Facebook… May 3rd 2009. We have finally reached 500 fans! Yes it took [...]

Last week Vikas sent an email to me sometime late in the afternoon… I am currently with OptusNet and every-time I type in your website OzBargain, it goes to eBay… Have you done something? Yes I know sometimes I uploaded half-baked scripts onto OzBargain which caused all kinds of mess, but seriously I have not [...]

There are several reasons why a post on OzBargain gets unpublished, i.e. in a state that only the original poster and moderator can see, and will be automatically purged from the database if not being republished after 90 days. For example, It’s a duplicate of an old post. It’s violating our terms and services It’s [...]

It has got to be one of the easiest competition on OzBargain so far — just guess a number and you could win a Microsoft Explorer Mouse with BlueTrack Technology. It’s so easy that some actually forgot to take out their calculators. What Kingwang26 said in the comment was actually very correct — the hints [...]

One of my first Christmas presents last year was from Deeps at Microsoft Australia, whom I’ve worked together to create the IE8 Web Slice for OzBargain. It’s the Microsoft Explorer Mouse with BlueTrack technology that works on “any service surface”. Easy Recharging Reliable Wireless on the go Sophisticated design and comfort Go anywhere Retail for [...]

Ops. I meant to post about it like two weeks ago, but anyway. It’s better be late than never… Happy New Year, OzBargain! I have actually been back to work for a week, although I have been a bit lazy getting back to work on OzBargain (as you can see my lack of participation on [...]

OzBargain was launched back in November 2006, which means we are almost 2 years old! For the last 2 years, our community members have posted: 6,200+ deals 600+ forum discussion threads 26,000+ comments Thank you all who have participated! Last week I have also posted in the OzBargain forums — OzBargain Birthday Competition, where I [...]

I posted this new competition at OzBargain yesterday. Basically this is what happened. Monday evening I received an email from Chang at Yogee, a Sydney based online toys & games store and a regular at OzBargain. OzBargain has been bringing many new business to him so he wants to thank OzBargain by offering additional prizes [...]

No one asked for it but I have just implemented a small feature on OzBargain that I think would be very useful for store owners — full RSS feed on deals and comments posted on OzBargain, against the domain name of your store. I think it will be very valuable for store owners/representatives to keep [...]