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Facebook iPad application coming October 4
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There have been rumors floating around that the official Facebook iPad application will be released at the Apple iPhone event on October 4. Apple haven’t released many details about the event except saying ‘Let’s talk iPhone’. Will Apple unveil the new iPhone 5 on this date? We will have to wait and see next week. [...]
Michael Arrington launches new Blog – UNCRUNCHED
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TechCrunch founder, Michael Arrington – has launched a new blog: Uncrunched This is sure to ruffle the feathers over at TechCrunch, where he was asked to leave the company last week. This has been widely reported in the media and according to Alexa – on the 24th of September he had a daily Alexa Rank [...]
Twitter Button Count Bug
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Currently there seems to be an issue with the official Twitter button where the tweet count is incorrect. I have the official Twitter Tweet button installed above ^ It seems not every Tweet and Retweet of your content is being counted, only some are – if any. This is kind of annoying as it’s not [...]
Top 10 Jobs in Social Media
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I came across some interesting data from the US showing the top 10 jobs currently in Social Media. The jobs cover junior roles from an intern level all the way to management. These top 10 roles are the 10 most popular job titles advertised in Social Media – so there would be plenty more social [...]
Google Car, Surry Hills – Sydney
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Photo of the day: I saw this cool Google car parked in Surry Hills, Sydney. It seems to be an Electric Mitsubish model. It’s not a Google Maps car, but maybe a test vehicle for some energy conservation project. Anyway here is the picture: Please ReTweet this article!
Facebook major changes at F8 [VIDEO]
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So we know Facebook have recently revamped the news feed with top stores, friends lists and the real-time updating in the top right of your home screen (this feature is called ticker) Mark Zuckerberg has said Facebook has attracted the users – there are now over 800 million members. Now Facebook is looking to drive [...]
Google to add +1 Button to Adwords
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Google has emailed Adsense publishers to let them know that from next month they will be adding the +1 button to certain Google Ads. Specifically the +1 button will be added display ads (ie picture ads) in the following categories: – AdSense for Content – AdSense for Mobile Content So your website users will be [...]
Oldschool: Reid Hoffman and Biz Stone
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I was scrolling through the LinkedIn help pages today and I came across an interesting video of 2 great entrepreneurs. Reid Hoffman – LinkedIn Founder Biz Stone – Twitter Founder If you are not already aware, the LinkedIn Today product, which has been very successful – draws the most shared news across the internet, specifically [...]
ACCC taking Google to Court
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Breaking News: The ACCC is taking Google to court. Why: The ACCC alleges that the way Google displays sponsored ads at the top of the search results page is misleading. This looks to be a world first. More to come as news unfolds..
Facebook Updates News Feed + Real Time Updating
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This afternoon Facebook has rolled out some new features for their News Feed and also a tab showing Real Time updating. There have been 3 main changes: – News Feed, top stories – News Feed, regular updates – Real Time Updating widget 1. The News feed has been changed showing Top Stories first These would [...]
Facebook has huge event tomorrow: F8 Conference
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Tomorrow (Thursday 22 September US time) Facebook is holding their annual F8 conference in San Francisco to update Developers, Platform partners and the press what Facebook’s plans are and new products. Some of the topics for discussion are as follows: 1. Facebook music service that allows users to share what music they are listening to. [...]
Google Plus now open to Public
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Google Plus has now opened their site to the public – allowing anyone to register an account on Google’s Social Networking website. As to what other features may be coming – it is very much speculation. Will there be deeper integration with existing Google products? – Will we get business pages? – More Games? – [...]
Alexa Claimed and Certified
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Alexa has recently rolled out some new analytics products and also created 2 new visual icons on Alexa Listings. If you are a webmaster you may have noticed the change about a week ago when Alexa added a Claimed and Certified badge/link on all websites. Here is how it looks: To get the Claimed Badge, [...]
Google Wallet Launched
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Google Wallet has launched in the US and currently available for customers using Sprint Nexus S 4G phones with a Citi MasterCard or Visa Card. You may be familiar in Australia with the MasterCard PayPass where you can ‘Tap and Go’. The Google Wallet is a similar concept except your can assign a specific credit [...]
Delicious transferring to new owners shortly
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Yahoo previously sold Delicious – their social bookmarking website to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen at their new company AVOS – http://www.avos.com/ Current Delicious users need to agree to the new Terms of Service and transfer their bookmarks to the new site by September 23. If you use Delicious for Social Media Marketing, [...]
Linux turns 20 Years old
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On Saturday 17th of September was the 20th Birthday for Linux kernel, where version 0.01 was released. You may not be aware but a huge amount of websites today run on a Linux operating system. In September 1991 the first Linux kernel was released to the public by Linus Torvalds. The original kernel had about [...]
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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