Apple has released a social network based on music, called Ping which is directly built into their iTunes software.
Steve Jobs says: ‘It’s for social music discovery. You can follow people and be followed on Ping.’
Jobs familiarised the service to Facebook and Twitter. You can see what your friends are listening to, and you can follow [...]
Apple will be releasing iOS 4.1 next week for iPhone and iPod touch users.
Upgraded features are to include bug fixes, HDR photos, Game Center, TV show rentals and the functionality to upload HD video over Wifi.
In November, iOS 4.2 will be released, including to the iPad so it can finally have the multitasking and other [...]
It has been a little over 2 years since Apple launched the AppStore.
The store now has over 250,000 applications from around 50,000 developers.
Books and Games are the 2 most popular categories, with about 30% market share combined.
Around 30% of the apps are free, 70% are paid-for applications.
In comparison, the Android Marketplace has about 95,000 applications [...]
As previously mentioned more and more people in Australia are accessing Facebook places via a VPN hack – it seems people will goto any lengths to be the first users of new social media technologies like this.
So you may ask, how are people accessing Facebook places through a USA VPN?
People are signing up to get [...]
The Sydney Powerhouse Museum is embracing social media in order to connect with more people and details about the museum’s attractions.
This Wednesday The Powerhouse Museum is participating in the worlds first “Ask a Curator” day , an international initiative to connect people with museum curators through social media.
On this coming Wednesday September 1st, the Powerhouse [...]
Mobile based social network, Foursquare has now passed 3 million user registrations globally.
Whilst Foursquare’s popularity in Australia has not grown significantly over the past couple months, the USA and Europe continue to lead the way with new user signups.
Its estimated that around 16,000 people join the mobile service each day now.
It is unsure yet the impact Facebook places has had on Foursquare, but no doubt this will unfold shortly.
A member of Facebook’s security team will visit Australia and meet with child-safety advocates.
Recently 3 Australian men were arrested over a child-porn ring they were running on Facebook.
Facebook removed the accounts that were part of the original offenses, but it is alleged the accused then opened new accounts on the site before being charged by authorities.
More to come as the Facebook Security team hit the ground.
Ok so we know Facebook places is not available in the Australia yet. However it seems when Facebook created the product it may have been a rushed launch – Facebook is restricting access via your location using your IP address. However they don’t even check your GSP coordinates at all.
This post on the mactalk au [...]
Yahoo US and Canada now has its search results powered by Microsoft’s Bing search engine.
Yahoo will also be moving its advertisers across to Microsoft’s adCenter platform but that is still very much a work in progress.
more to come as we hear local Australian news on this venture.
Whilst we haven’t heard much from Apple on the iAD advertising platform lately – if you use international applications on your iPhone in Australia you will notice some of then now have iAD’s.
I noticed Echofon (Twitter client), has put ads at the top of the screen near the search button – possibly getting people to [...]
Ricky Ponting said he is happy for players to use social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook while touring England.
However the English teams management has banned the use of these social networking sites and have also put clauses in players contracts stipulating the terms.
Ponting believes if the players are promoting the game, either through [...]
Google has now also joined the movement to kill off Internet Explorer 6 . Google is removing support for IE6 in its two main services Docs & Sites. Google has already removed support for IE6 in YouTube and it was already advising users with IE6 like older browser to upgrade to new browsers like in [...]
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Facebook has created a video on their new Geolocation feature – Facebook places.
The tools aims at ‘connecting’ friends when they are out and about. Facebook also goes on to say that more and more people are going to use geo-location apps like this.
Facebook is making a pitch to become even more of a tool in [...]
Theme of a blog plays a very important role in building a strong reader base. You can only get readers for your blog articles if your blog theme is good enough to highlight your content to the readers. With all other features you want in a theme, security is the most important factor you [...]
Over the last year or 2 there has been more and more talk of internet privacy and how it impacts us all.
For example, if you have never updated your Facebook privacy settings – everyone on the internet can view you photos, profile, info, wall posts, friends etc.
Almost 1/4 of Facebook users don’t know how to [...]
