Archive for May, 2010
ACCC suggests product recalls via Social Media
These-days large companies are finding all news sorts of ways to interact and communicate with their customer base. The Australia Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has said 60-70% of Australians now have internet access and issuing product recalls via social media sites such as Twitter, blogs and forums is a good way to reach another […]
Read More | ShareApple World-wide Developers Conference June 7
So the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is on June 7 hosted in San Jose, California – USA. We know Steve Jobs will most probably be focusing on the new iPhone 4G and as to when the OS4.0 will be available to all other iPhone users. Many are speculating that Steve Jobs may also release […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media to Help Spread the Word About Chlamydia
The Australian Government is planning to use social media as the marketing tool of choice for a new campaign in place to help spread the word about the dangers of chlamydia. About 1000 new cases of HIV are detected every year in Australia and is increasing year on year. The Australia Government understands it is about sending […]
Read More | ShareGoogle crowns Facebook 1st in page views, Yahoo 2nd
Google has recently released more internet traffic data from their Google Adplanner / DoubleClick system. According to Adplanner, Facebook is visited by 540 million people monthly – which is around 35% of the internet population. Yahoo network is visited by 490 million visitors per month – 31% of the internet population. On Facebook approximately 570 […]
Read More | ShareRUMOR: Google search to be replaced with Bing on iPhone
There have been many rumors amongst tech news publishers that Bing will replace Google as the default search provider on the iPhone once OS4 is rolling out to devices globally. This is kind of expected especially considering that Google’s Android has been stealing market share from the iPhone over the last several months. Apple apparently […]
Read More | ShareLinkedIn is Maturing
LinkedIn is known as the Facebook for professionals. B2B proffessionals from around the world have been engaging on LinkedIn to help meet new contacts, learn and teach in their own professions and most importantly increase sales leads. The below infographic shows the state of where LinkedIn is currently at with a breakdown of demographics, professions and geolocations of current LinkedIn users. With 1.2 […]
Read More | ShareThe End for Facebook?
May 31 has been labelled as ‘Quit facebook day’. Is this really the end for Facebook? There have been recent global movements to put an end to Facebook’s monopolising of the web, mainly because of their privacy policies. There are a couple of reasons why people are scared of what Facebook is doing such as making more information available […]
Read More | ShareDigg version 4 coming soon
In April 2009, Kevin Rose – Founder of Digg.com spoke of a major update of the site in an attempt to get more users/publishers back on the site sharing their viral content and news stories. The problem with Digg is that only the top 100 stories or so got font page exposure and high traffic. […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare reaches 10 check-ins per second
Checking my Twitter account i just noticed the below tweet by Foursquare. Globally Foursquare is now generating 10 check-ins per second. ie. – 600 per minute – 36,000 per hour – 864,000 per day Almost a million check-ins per day! I am sure they will reach that milestone soon. Remember when it was a big […]
Read More | ShareGoogle-AdMob Deal Approved
The Federal Trade Commission in the United States has finally approved Google’s purchase of mobile advertising company Ad-Mob. In a blog post Google wrote: ‘We’ll now begin the process of bringing our products and teams together in the best way, and building new products and features together,’ ‘We’re working to make this integration happen as […]
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