Australians Online

Not many, but this website has up a few Australia Myspace layouts.

Australian, Aboriginal and also an Australian Olympic Myspace layout.

You can also click here to preview one layout live.

Here is a small sample of some Australian graphics available on http://www.australia-bodybuilding.com/ for use on Myspace, blogs etc now available:

Some smaller Australian avatars/icons:




Here are the links of the pages where they are available:
Australian GraphicsAustralia Day GraphicsANZAC Day GraphicsAboriginal Graphics

Since last count [here] both Kevin Rudd and John Howard appear to be losing Myspace friends.

Ruddy has dropped 149 friends, as of this moment he is down to 23,844. Howard has dropped 1 friend, down to an excruciating total of 8 friends.

Australian employers seem to be facing a dilemma, block Facebook and Myspace and possibly lose out on up to 50% of employee pool - or don't block the social networking sites and just put up with employees frittering time away on them. From Scopical:

Well "Hanny" [who has trademarked her screenname] has won a vital race in Australian netizenrey - she holds the most Myspace friends of any registered Australian.

I just checked her page, where she has exactly 217,586 friends.

She totally kicks ex-pm's John Howards ass with his measly 9 myspace friends.

So does the #2 placer, "Sophbox" a 16 year old from Newcastle with over 200,000 friends. The top 10 list of popular Aussies on Myspace shows they have over 1 million friends combined, are mostly female between the age of 20 - 30.

So, after looking at former Prime Minister John Howard’s 9 myspace friends debacle I thought to research how this could be prevented in future.

It appears buying Myspace friends is an option.

A quick glance on ebay.com made me aware that one has the following options:

$9 will buy an account with 1,000 friends at the ‘buy it now’ price or one could enter the bidding ‘wars’ for Myspace accounts with 600 - 20,000 friends. It appears a solid $50 will buy well over 10,000 friends

Okay, I have been inspired by the American election where there has been much tallying of the candidates Myspace & Facebook friends, Youtube subscribers & views, Diggs - well tallying of everything online really. The internet has become a much larger medium for politicians worldwide with them appearing on Myspace, Facebook, Youtube just , well……everywhere.

So, please excuse me as I have look at our Australian politicians ever so important online friending ability. Prior to the 2007 election, both Rudd and Howard started Myspace pages, Youtube channels etc.

Facebook

• Kevin Rudd is reported to have 5,000 [the maximum allowed]
• I have no clue about anyone else, so this comparison actually is awful, sorry.

Youtube

• Rudd’s channel has about 50,000 more views, and double the subscribers of John Howard.

Myspace

• Kevin Rudd, as of April 04, 2008 has exactly 23,991 Myspace friends
• John Howard, as of April 04, 2008 has exactly 9 Myspace friends.

And yes, I am quite serious. If you don’t believe me have a cyber walk over to myspace. And in the whole nine friends, that does include “Tom” - the defacto friend that everyone gets.

I am not a political pundit here, but I will go out on a limb and say that combined with these numbers, and the fact that John Howard did in fact lose the election - his attempts to mobilize votes through the online social networking avenues was not a resounding success.