Category: General
Social Media – No1 time online
According to recent Comscore data, Social Media accounts for the largest amount of time we are spending online. Here is the breakdown of the figures: Time Online Social Media websites account for 20.8% of out total time online Portals – 17.3% Entertainment – 13.8% Instant Messengers – 7.1% Email – 5.1% Other – remainder Online [...]
#MBFFS shares fashion with the masses this week
80 Designers. 16 Catwalk Shows. 1,500 Followers. 3,800 Likes This week’s Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival Sydney provided runway coverage for more than the usual elite, fashion crowd by streaming digital content and constant social media interaction. The week-long festival sparked digital conversations across the globe as thousands flocked to social networks to get a [...]
Paint.net v3.5.8: Desktop Design for the non-artist (FREE)
Aspiring artists can practice their computer craftiness with the recently updated Paint.net v5 software. Cnet’s download.com lists 1,854 options of image editing software, 527 of which are free. While I can’t say with certainty that the recently updated Paint.net v.5 is the best one out there having not tried them all, I can tell you [...]
50 Most Popular Brand Fan pages on Facebook – Dec09-June10
Below is a list of the 50 most popular brands with Facebook pages. Celebrities / music bands etc have been left off the list. Creating a Facebook fan page is a great way to expose your business in a viral way to new customers and contacts. The top 100 list is made up of many [...]
Facebook social plug-ins on over 100,000 sites after 1 month
Last month Facebook launched its new social plug-ins at its F8 developer conference. This is part of the company’s Open Graph initiative and a huge amount of sites have rushed to implement these features. It is estimated over 100,000 sites have now implemented the Facebook social plug-ins. Facebook comments: “It’s only been two and a [...]
SocialMediaNews.com.au Launched!
Hello & Welcome to socialmedianews.com.au We aim to provide an informative news service for everything social media related in Australia (and also not so related, and not so Australia!). Over the coming months you will notice enhancements to the site, new features and we are looking forward to speaking with you. We will now get [...]









My name is David Cowling and I am the Founder and Chief Editor of Social Media News AUS and I also run my own 





- Signup to our RSS Feed
- Add us on Google+
- Watch us on YouTube
- Surry Hills Social Media Club