David Cowling
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Facebook Mobile Ads
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There is speculation that Facebook may be looking to introduce some form of ads into the mobile version of their site early next year. Currently Google and Apple lead the way in mobile display advertising, with smaller stakes to Millennial Media, Yahoo and Microsoft. With Facebook’s huge reach and high mobile usage (around 350 million [...]
Windows Store
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Microsoft has been working on their Windows Store which will be compatible with Windows 7 and 8, x86 machines. The revenue split has been revealed which compromises of the following: initial revenue split of 70/30 to the developer once the app sells more than $25,000 the split will go to 80/20 to the developer Initially [...]
WordPress 3.3 Now Released
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WordPress 3.3 has been released and you should start seeing the Upgrade button in your WordPress dashboard. A number of enhancements have been made, such as: Automatic file type detection on media upload Drag and Drop media interface More file formats allowed for upload WordPress Dashboard redesign New Header Admin toolbar New Info popups in [...]
VIDEO – Sean Parker at LeWeb
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This is a great video from entrepreneur Sean Parker discussing Facebook, Spotify, Gowalla and may other of his tech interests and investments at LeWeb, Paris 2011. Sean Parker and also VC Shervin Pishevar go on to discuss about starting new businesses, and how tech industry can transform the music industry. For example in the last [...]
Radical Twitter Redesign – Thoughts?
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Twitter redesigned their site last week and all users should now have access to the new twitter.com The redesign is rather radical and I can tell it would have been a huge project for the Twitter development teams. People are often opposed to IT change, especially with mainstream websites – I am not, I work [...]
Blekko – Yahoo! Site Explorer Alternative
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A couple of weeks ago, Yahoo shut down their Yahoo! Site Explorer tool. This tool was a legacy Yahoo product used by web developers and SEO professionals to check a websites backlinks. In fact many people really enjoyed using this tool and surely provided Yahoo some useful search data. But no, Yahoo has now shut [...]
Foursquare Statistics – December 2011
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Dennis Crowley, Foursquare Co-Founder and CEO has just released some interesting statistics about their geo-location mobile app. Stats include: 4 million check-ins per day 30 million venues world-wide 600,000 merchants using the business tools/ offers products 170,000,000 (170 million) API calls per day You can watch the full interview with Tech Blogger Robert Scoble at [...]
Instagram – iPhone App of the Year
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Apple iTunes has released their yearly figures of the most popular applications sold and downloaded through iTunes. Apple also released their own favourite iPhone application picked by the Apple team, which this year is photo app Instagram. This is a great feat by Instagram as their iPhone app is just getting more and more popular. [...]
Twitter Redesign Rolling Out
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Twitter is releasing a redesign of their site today, which is a totally new look and feel. We reported yesterday about Twitter releasing New Tweet, Follow Buttons. Twitter is also going to be releasing business pages, much like Facebook. Here is the promotional video that’s been released: I haven’t got the new version of Twitter.com [...]
Twitter releases New Tweet, Follow Buttons
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If you haven’t not yet seen Twitter have updated their Tweet and Follow Buttons. Have a look above ^^^ and to the right –> to see for yourself. Go on, test the buttons out The new minimalistic design does look good, and is rolling out automatically to sites that have the code installed. Basically the [...]
Video Blog: Social Media Weekly Recap 08-12-11
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So I have been meaning to make a video blog for sometime now, and it’s fair to say I have been procrastinating a little. Anyway I had some time this morning and wanted to make my first video blog post. I hope to continue this every week, discussing the major topics of interest we have [...]
Facebook releasing Subscribe Button for Websites
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Facebook for some time now has allowed the subscribe button on user profiles. This has been particularly useful for technology leaders, reporters, public figure, politician, celebrity, athletes etc. Facebook is now going to create a subscribe button that these people can embed on their websites, allowing users to easily subscribe to their public status updates. [...]
What is the NBN?
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NBN Co have put together a nice video explaining exactly what is the National Broadband Network, and also some key statistics about Australian internet usage.
Facebook Timeline rolls out to New Zealand
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Facebook has confirmed that New Zealand is the first country to start officially getting the new profile layout – Timeline. As per this Facebook Blog Post, more countries will be rolling out shortly as Facebook test everything goes ok with New Zealand users. We will keep you fully updated as to when the Facebook Timeline [...]
Top 10 Australian Topics Discussed on Facebook in 2011
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Facebook just released the 10 most popular topics discussed globally in 2011 on their site. They have also released the top 10 for Australia – the 10 most discussed topics Australian’s spoke about on Facebook in 2011. Here is the list: 1. Planking 2. Cyclone Yasi 3. Census 4. Death of Osama bin Laden 5. [...]
Top 10 Global Topics discussed on Facebook in 2011
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Facebook has posted an interesting blog on their site showing the Top 10 Global topics during 2011 – basically what we are posting as status updates and liking the most. Here is the list: 1. Death of Osama bin Laden 2. Greenbay Packers win Superbowl 3. Casey Anthony found not Guilty 4. Charlie Sheen 5. [...]
My name is David Cowling and I am the Founder and Chief Editor of Social Media News AUS and I also run my own 
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