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CYBERBONDI SITE NEWS

11/1/11

THE BONDI MERMAID
JOINS US

This date is a palindrome - and a lucky date for CyberBondi because the BondiMermaid is joining us with her captivating blog: "Bondi Banter".

You can catch up with the BondiMermaid and find out what's doing locally now and what went on in Bondi's rich and lively past. Just click HERE.

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19/11/10

10th ANNUAL BONDI SHORT FILM FESTIVAL - November 27 click HERE for details...

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4/10/09

BONDI'S UNDERBELLY


Waverley Council Librarian Kimberly O'Sullivan-Steward and local historian John Ruffels get into the act fortheir local Crime Walk


WHEN History Week (5-13 September) was approaching, Waverley Library's Local Studies Librarian, Kimberly O'Sullivan-Steward was overjoyed when local historian John Ruffels approached her with a suggestion.

How about an exhibition about crime in Bondi, coupled with a guided walk around the Bondi-Waverley area pointing out where interesting crimes had been committed over the years?

John had mentioned how enthusiastically an article on crime in Waverley had been received by readers when he wrote it for the free Bondi View newspaper.

So Kimberly and John set to researching, writing and mounting a "True Crime In Waverley" exhibition, obtained appropriate pictures, and invited the public.

The exhibition, KINGS CROSS WITH SAND, which dove-tailed with Waverley Municipality's sequi-centenary celebrations, proved very popular and ran from 5th to 30th September.

The "True Crime Walk around Waverley" was swamped with bookings. So much so, the first walk was booked out and a second walk arranged. A dozen walks could have been booked easily.

Along with a talk on crime at Waverley Historical Society, and a very popular author's talk by Peter Doyle on his Crooks Like Us book of mug shots and potted biographies, these walks added to
local enthusiasm.

A monograph of true reminiscences by a local larrikin," Vic Darmenian" called The View from a Balcony, printed by Local Studies, sold very well and is now out of print.

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18/7/09

TALLY-HO! FOX SITED IN BONDI

Artist's impression of the fox

Our Bondi historian, John Ruffels, reports an unusual sighting:

"Blithly travelling along Murriverie Road heading north before sunrise recently was one of those not-supposed to be-there foxes.

Doing a fair impression of a champion trotter at Harold Park, it came out of O'Donnell Street , headed up Murriverie Road andmade a smart beeling across into Waratah Street.

Avoiding eye contact, it had a low-slung, ears-back, tail-out profile, a light-coloured coat,and was medium-size.

First one I've seen in Bondi in 30 years.

Probably looking for Ploughman's chook farm which was just down the road about 100 years ago.

Last Thursday morning, over a week after the previous sighting of a single
fox in O"Donnel Street, it was seen there again.

But this time it was seen in the company of a much younger fox (a cub?)
which appeared to have little, or no tail. Foraging in the garden beds,
they ran off when they heard a noise.

Presumably, these foxes have their lair somewhere in the underbrush up on
Military Road at the Golf Course.

Possibly the bush regeneration programme going on up there has disturbed
them."

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19/1/09.
THE COUNTRY OF MY HEART: Why I love Bondi
click to read

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22/11/08

A spectacullar cloud formation over Bondi Beach

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19/11/08

NOSEY BOB - BONDI'S HANGMAN

Click HERE to read about the famous hangman

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10/1/11

OUR NEW ONLINE SHOPPING MALL SHOWCASES LOCAL BUSINESSES WHICH SELL ONLINE

CyberBondi now has an Online Shopping Mall. It will boost the many local businesses who are now selling online. This is the shape of the marketplace-to-come and is an important addition to our site.

We hope our Online Malls will help local businesses which are up against the big global sites. We are stresing that local sites can be trusted, and delivery is quicker.

Our sister site: CyberPaddohtttp://www,cyberpaddo.com.au ) also has an Online Shopping Mall, and soon a third local area network, CyberSouth, will go "live" - and it will have an Online Shopping Mall too.

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23/11/08

CHANGES TO CATEGORIES
& BUSINESS TYPES

We are always striving to upgrade and update our categories and business types on our site.

Recently it was brought to our notice by some of our clients that our PSYCHOLOGY/PSYCHOTHERAPIST category in MEDICAL SERVICES was too broad, and needed refining.

As well, some other categories in both MEDICAL SERVICES and WELLBEING/ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE also needed altering.

So, accordingly, we have made the following changes:

We have renamed the PLAZA general category WELLBEING/ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE:

HEALTH-RELATED SERVICES

We have combined WELLNESS CENTRE with NATURAL HEALING CENTRE into a new lobby category:

NATURAL HEALTH/WELLBING

We have changed PSYCHOLOGY/PSYCHOTHERAPIST to:

PSYCHOLOGIST/CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST (the latter category consisting of psychologists who have had a longer period of training)

We have created in the renamed HEALTH-RELATED SERVICES a new category:

COUNSELLING/PSYCHOTHERAPY
(removing PERSONAL COUNSELLING from PROFESSIONAL SERVICES)

We have switched DIALYSIS to a different column in MEDICAL SERVICES

We have also taken METHADONE out of MEDICAL SERVICES and transferred it to CHEMISTS

And adjusted the “pointers” accordingly

We are, as mentioned above, always trying to improve our categories and make them more meaningful and easier to use.

If you have any suggestion about how we can do more, don’t hesitate to contact us at: info@cybersydney.com.au

Thank you for your support
Cybersydney/cyberbondi/cyberpaddo

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SEPTEMBER 2008

CYBERBONDI SITE FITS ON IPHONE

We are now creating a version of our Cyberbondi site specially to fit comofortably on an iPhone screen so you don't have to stretch it to make it legible..

This is a "work in progress" but you can already visit it from your iPhone by simply going to www.cyberbondi.com.au and it will automatically switch you to the iPhone version of our site.

It can also be visited from ordinary mobile phones, but looks best on the iPhone.

An extra plus is that you can tap on any phone number displayed on the site and it will allow you to contact the businesses you want.

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JULY 2008

LAUNCH OF CYBERPADDO & CYBEREASTERN SUBURBS PLUS iPHONE CONNECTION

WITH the launch of www.cyberpaddo.com.au we now cover virtually all of Sydney's Eastern Suburbs

Geographically, CyberPaddo covers the entire municipality of Woollahra, next to CyberBondi's territory of the municipality of Waverley. Together, the two sites come under the umbrella of www.cybereasternsububurbs.com.au

CyberBondi could be described as the "beachside" Eastern Suburbs while CyberPaddo covers the Harbourside Eastern Suburbs.

Together, the two sites contain ove 9500 local businesses and organisations with continuous updating of their details.

Each business is connected to a Google map. There are also links to its URL and email details, if they are available.

Talking Avitars now tell you about each business. Business owners can ask us to customise what their avitar says. We can also arrange for their Avitar to use their own voice or the voice of a staff member..

We welcome your input about the sites, and also welcome new information about businesses that are not yet included. Please email us at info@cyberbondi.com.au

iPHONE

Our sites are particularly suited for use on iPHONES because each page is very low on kilobytes, thus saving telephone costs. You can also locate free wireless (wi-fi) hot spots in Bondi and Paddington. Just go to SIMPLE SEARCH in the navbar at the top of this page and key in wi-fi, or simply click HERE.

TALKING AVITARS TELL YOU
WHAT EVERY BONDI BUSINESS DOES

A team of talking Avitars has joined CyberBondi to tell you about each of the 5000-odd businesses listed in our site.

Just click on any business type in our Plaza (such as SPORT or FASHION, RESTAURANTS or DENTAL, etc, and choose which business you want (or go to SIMPLE SEARCH and key in the name or type of business you want).

As well as phone numbers and address, you will see a row of buttons. Click on the button marked HEAR and you will hear and see the Avitar.

Message to Bondi-Waverley Businesses

At present the Avitars have either American or English accents, but any business-owner can have a special, tailor-made Avitar with a 3-D photo of him or herself, set against a photo of their business - and talking with their own voice. Just contact CyberBondi at info@cyberbondi.com.au

Maps and Websites

Another button takes you to a Google map showing the location of each business in the site.

A third button takes you to the website and email address of each business.

Constant Updates

To ensure we are giving you the most up-to-date information possible about businesses and organisations in the area, CyberBondi constantly checks and updates the database.

We also welcome your input. If you know of a new business in the area, or if you know of a business that has moved or closed, please contact us. And if you are the owner or manager of a business and you want us and our Avatars to say something different about what you do, please contacts us: info@cyberbondi.com.au