Tag: "2010"
Android Market Update – September 2010
With so much media attention always going to Apple and their iOS platform, its worth taking a look at how Android is fairing in the competitive mobile market. Here are some new stats worth taking note of in regards to the Android mobile platform: – 200,000 Android phones are sold everyday. – 97,000 (approx) applications […]
Read More | ShareTwitter Web Application Tracks 2010 Election Voting Intentions In Real Time
We received a tip today on a new Twitter tracking application tool that is collating all the Tweets about the Australian 2010 Federal Election. AUG 2010: A new web application, Election.ly, from PeopleBrowsr, has launched today converting twitter conversations into real time, quantitative data about voting intentions for the upcoming Federal Election. Candidates used to […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Mobile Search and Ads Growing Rapidly in 2010
Not only has the volume of Google mobile search more than quintupled over the last two years, but the clickthrough rate for its click to call mobile ads are 6-8% better than ads on search without a number or URL associated with it according to Mike Steib, director of the new platforms at Google. Steib, […]
Read More | ShareAustralian Political Election 2010, heats up [VIDEO]
![Australian Political Election 2010, heats up [VIDEO]](http://www.socialmedianews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/gillard-abbott-politics.png)
Ok, the election is just around the corner. Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott are at it, hard.. check out the latest video of their campaigning. typical politics..
Read More | ShareAustralian Mobile Internet Usage, July 2010
Almost half of Australian mobile phone users have own an internet-enabled phone, however only a third go on the internet regularly. Australian mobile internet phone ownership now sits at 43 per cent. 29 per cent regularly are using the internet to search, email, find maps and social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn etc. […]
Read More | ShareQ2 2010 Google Revenues
Google has now released its second quarter 2010 earnings. The main highlight ofthe news is that their revenue grew 24% year-over-year to $6.82 billion. Looking at Q1 2010 results there was not much growth. In Q1 Google reported $6.77 billion in revenue. Some more details on the latest Q2 earnings report: – Google-owned sites generated […]
Read More | ShareDigital Citizens: Crisis and reputation management, Social Media Event Sydney
Digital Citizens are holding Digicitz 5 next Tuesday, 20/07/2010 from 6:30pm. The theme of the event is: Crisis and reputation management: How to deal when the web gets antisocial Tickets are $10 each + a $1.50 booking free. To register goto: http://digicitz5.eventbrite.com For more information on Digicitz visit their site http://digital-citizens.org Speakers include: Matthew Gain, […]
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 | ShareTwitter creates Official World Cup 2010 page
Twitter has created an official page supporting the Soccer / Football 2010 World Cup. The purpose of this initiative it to gather all the football related tweets across Twitter and group them accordingly into teams, matches, players and so on. You will be able to see all the fixtures, live scores, trending topics and updates […]
Read More | ShareGoogle App Engine for Business released
So Google has unveiled their App Engine for Business – the same scalable cloud infrastructure their own business runs on This product has been around for consumers but now Google is looking to the enterprise market. Google will be partnering with VMware for this and will allow companies to build, host and develop applications in […]
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