Facebook have now updated their iOS iPhone application to support the new Timeline profile layout. Timeline is not yet available for the iPad application, but this is coming shortly. The Timeline profile layout on the iPhone really does look fantastic, check it out for yourself. Around 57 million people use the Facebook iPhone application on [...]

It has been reported that Facebook has purchased Geo-loation mobile application, Gowalla. Gowalla has competed with Foursquare for several years and always been the smaller of the 2 location based social networks. Gowalla is based in Austin, Texas and has around 30 employees. It has been speculated these employees will move in Facebook’s mobile division [...]

Facebook is beta testing a new Windows 7 Desktop Application that lets you chat to your friends without being on the Facebook.com website. Similar to Windows Live Messenger, the application will let you: – Message and Chat with your Facebook friends – Get notifications as they happen on Facebook, eg someone liking your photo – [...]

Social Payments have advanced as PayPal launch their own Facebook Application. This will let you send money to your friends over the Facebook site. Facebook has been speculating new forms of social payments will be coming to the site as part of the new timeline profiles and apps, and it seems PayPal has jumped right [...]

Now that Google+ has launched business pages, and many brands are getting onboard – we look at the best ways to utilise this new social network. On Facebook many companies like to run competitions or deals on their Fanpages and this has worked well. Part of the Facebook Terms of Service is that any competitions [...]

Roamz is a local start up in Surry Hills, Sydney who have created a new geo-location mobile application for the iPhone. The application merges local, social and mobile technology to provide users real time data about what is around them, anywhere in the world. Roamz is integrated with other social media sites such as Facebook, [...]

One thing I really like about iOS5 is the Messages (or iMessage application as it’s known). Very similar to Blackberry Messenger this is a free messaging service between iOS5 devices. To me this application has a great feel, will be useful for networking and a nice way to chat with people in an informal manner [...]

Facebook has finally released an iPad application for accessing their social network. Facebook’s iPhone application has been available around 3 years and its good to finally see an official Facebook iPad app. There have been many 3rd party Facebook iPad apps, but they didn’t feel right to me. I have just installed their iPad app [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]

Over the next couple of days we are going to get back to some Social Media basics. I often receive emails from people who are starting out in social media, and don’t want to be baffled by more advanced SM topics, they want generic definitions. Many users come to this site for basic information and I want [...]

Foursquare has updated their system to allow users to now check-in to major events. Often you will goto the movies and check-in and type in what movie you are seeing, or you may check-in to a park with 50 other people, why? because you are at a big music festival. But if you didn’t know [...]

Facebook has released a new iPhone and Android application in the US – Facebook Messenger, that has the potential to replace SMS. The application will allow you to message any of your Facebook friends, like you would an SMS, except there are no carrier/ telco charges as the messages are sent over the internet. I [...]

We have put together some social media marketing tips to promote your Facebook Fan page and profile. With Facebook’s huge audience of 750 million and growing users, leveraging traffic from this social network should be an important aspect of any online businesses social media marketing campaigns. Social Media Marketing Tips for Facebook Whenever you post [...]

There are rumors floating around that in the next couple days Twitter will announce their purchase of TweetDeck. TweetDeck is a mobile application that allows users to easily manager their Twitter stream, timeline, @replied and messages – and was one of the first 3rd Party Mobile applications for Twitter. Twitter themselves were very slow to [...]

Geolocation application, Foursquare – has released version 3.0 of their iPhone/ iPad application. This is a whole new design and comes with 3 main areas of improvement and development. 1. Personalised Recommendations Using data from your friends and the entire Foursquare community (check-ins and tips), there is now a new explore tab that will give [...]