Category: Facebook

Communications Minister not happy with Facebook and Google privacy

David Cowling | May 25, 2010 | Comments (0)

The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy – Stephen Conroy has expressed his concern about Google’s recent privacy hitch when their Streetview cars were collecting WiFi data from private homes around Australia. Conroy remarked about Google: ‘They consider that they are the appropriate people to make the decisions about people’s privacy data’. Stephen [...]

Facebook launches optimised mobile site

David Cowling | May 19, 2010 | Comments (0)

Facebook has launched a new mobile optimised site that is designed for speed and very low data cost – 0.facebook.com Facbook has around 100 million users globally accessing Facebook from their mobile, so this does seem like a smart move to service countries with low data services. This service is not available in Australia just [...]

Apple to patent Facebook iPhone integration

David Cowling | May 18, 2010 | Comments (0)

Apple has submitted a patent to integrate the Facebook application into the iPhone as a native application, instead of a 3rd party application. The patent specifically show how to add a contact as a Facebook friend. You can begin by connecting to Facebook and sending a friend request to one of your contacts (target device). [...]

MySpace ups security in wake of Facebook privacy concerns

David Cowling | May 18, 2010 | Comments (0)

MySpace has announced that their privacy options are changing which will result in user profiles to be defaulted ‘private’ only sharing personal information to friends. This seems to be the exact opposite of Facebook’s current strategy. MySpace, Co-President Mike Jones comments: “We respect our users’ desires to balance sharing and privacy, and never push our [...]

Sydney Facebook murder twist

David Cowling | May 17, 2010 | Comments (0)

Police have charged James Dannevig – a 20 year old male for the murder of 18 year old Sydney teenager Nona Belomesoff. It is alleged James Dannevig set up a Facebook account using a fake alias – Jason Green and pretended he was an employee of the NSW Information Rescue and Education Service and lured [...]

Facebook meet turns to murder for Sydney teen

David Cowling | May 15, 2010 | Comments (0)

Police have found the body of 18 year old Leumeah teenager, Nona Belomesoff. Nona met 2 men on Wednesday the 12th of May after chatting on Facebook for a supposed camping outing but instead have been missing ever since. A 20 year old Leumeah man has been charged with murder, refused bail and will appear [...]

Sydney teen Facebook meeting goes bad

David Cowling | May 15, 2010 | Comments (0)

Nona Belomesoff, an 18 year old lady of Cecil Hills met up with 2 men she met off Facebook earlier in the week. Since then her parents and friends have not see or heard anything from Nova – her phone is turned off and all are concerned for her welfare. One of the men, a [...]

Zuckerberg in trouble over leaked IM chat

David Cowling | May 14, 2010 | Comments (0)

Mark Zuckerberg founder of Facebook is facing heat over a leaked Instant Message conversation dating back to 2003. It can be seen he is mocking users who join his social network, which was at the time call The Facebook, in which he operated from his Harvard dorm room. The conversation reads: Zuck: Yeah so if [...]

Jessica Watson almost home, now with lots of Facebook fans

David Cowling | May 14, 2010 | Comments (0)

Jessica Watson has sailed around the world but is almost at home in Australia – and set to sail into Sydney Harbour tomorrow. At first there was much controversy if she should undertake such a voyage but once on her way Australia gave their support. By the time she hits home Jessica would have traveled [...]

Facebook facts you probably didn’t know

David Cowling | May 14, 2010 | Comments (1)

Interesting facts about Facebook – In Australia we serve legally binding court notices via Facebook. A Facebook summons is considered legally binding – Michael Jackson has the #1 most popular page on Facebook – Homer Simpson has the #2 most popular page on Facebook – Facebook has the #3 most popular page on Facebook! – [...]

Social Media stats courtesy of Smash summit

David Cowling | May 13, 2010 | Comments (0)

Smash Summit was on yesterday, 12/5 in San Francisco- USA. The event discussed various social media marketing strategies, tools, campaigns and statistics used by online companies to find and retain customers on social, search, and mobile. While not directly related to Australian Social Media there have been some great stats worth noting. – Twitter has [...]

Yelp security puts Facebook user details at risk

David Cowling | May 11, 2010 | Comments (0)

Yelp, a social networking, user review, and local search engine website is one of only 3 websites so far to be eligible for Facebook’s highly controversial and anticipated Instant Personalisation feature. A security issue has come to light where a malicious site could harvest a Facebook user’s name, email, and data shared with everyone on [...]

Facebook to launch location based features, hush hush for now

David Cowling | May 11, 2010 | Comments (0)

Facebook will soon be launch location-based feature, but the company has denied reports that it is already working with marketing partners on the product. We dont really know any more than that at the moment however the code for this feature is available on the touch.facebook.com site. Facebook has release several statements in regards to [...]