Archive for June, 2010
Facebook launches Recruiting Tool for pages
Facebook has launched a new app called Work For Us which enables your Facebook company page to become a recruiting tool – allowing companies to post jobs and receive applications via Facebook. The application went live earlier this year, and has now passed the 1,000 business users Once companies have installed the app, a ‘Work […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare secures $20 million in VC funding
Foursquare has completed their second round of Venture Capitalist funding – securing $20 million mainly from VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. There has been speculation that Facebook or Yahoo was going to purchase funding but this latest move puts that issue to rest. Foursquare now employs 27 people and is close to reaching 1.8 million users […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media and Online Video [STATS]
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Over the past couple years the use of video across the web has exploded. Video used to be a technical and ‘hard to create’ media – but now with an abundance of online tools it is easier than ever for regular internet users to create and watch videos online. Social Media Video statistics to take […]
Read More | ShareAustralians getting more involved in Social Media
Over the past year in Australia users going to social media sites and forums have increase 36.1% over the year. This means that social media usage is overtaking search engines as the most visited web destination by Australians. Facebook has benefited more of our adaption to social media. Facebook accumulated 56.4% of all social networking […]
Read More | ShareiPhone 4 reception issue [VIDEO]
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Steve Jobs has replied to the iPhone 4 reception issue with: ‘There is no issue. Stay tuned’ We can only speculate what this may mean, probably a software update to fix the issue. Hopefully the issue is fully resolved by the time iPhone 4 units are shipped to Australia. The below video shows how the […]
Read More | ShareBingbot replacing MSNbot in October
Over the last couple month the Bing web team has been busy refining and rolling our improvements to their web crawling software that indexes website on Bing.com On October 1st 2010, MSNbot will cease to crawl and will be replaced by Bingbot. This will show in your server logs as: bingbot/2.0 The HTTP header From […]
Read More | ShareHitler iPhone 4 parody [VIDEO]
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Ok, so there is a lot of tension at the moment about the iPhone 4 antenna reception and call drop outs/ quality. Apple have said: – hold the phone differently – buy a case This is not exactly leaving a great impressions for Apple enthusiasts / fanboys. Michael Ingram Jr of mingramjr created the following […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft still King, by the numbers
There has been so much hype lately with tech companies hitting record sales levels. But generally we don’t hear all that much in regards to how Microsoft is going. 7.1 million Projected iPad sales for 2010. 58 million Projected netbook sales in 2010. 355 million Projected PC sales in 2010. Apple also says 100 million […]
Read More | ShareGoogle rolling out Facebook competitor – Google Me
There have been several reports around the net that Google is going to be releasing their Facebook competitor soon called ‘Google Me’. Yahoo already has a twitter like service – Yahoo MeMe which sounds a little the same. Kevin Rose the Founder of Digg tweeted the following statement: Ok, umm, huge rumor: Google to launch […]
Read More | ShareProblems with new iPhone 4 reception
There has been alot of talk about reception problems with the new iPhone 4 causing lots calls and drop outs. Steve Jobs and Apple have said not to hold the phone in the lower left hand corner, or alternatively buy a special case from Apple for $29. This comes down to an issue with the […]
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