Tag: "Launches"
Instagram Launches Private Messaging, Photos & Videos
Instagram have just announced a major update of their application to version 5.0, which now supports sending private messages, photos and videos to your friends. The latest update is flagged Instagram Direct. Kevin Systrom, Co-Founder of Instagram help a press event in Manhattan, New York today where he told reports further details about this latest […]
Read More | ShareYouTube Launches Off-Site Subscribe Buttons For Your YouTube Channel
If you have a YouTube Channel and use the service extensively, you will be happy to hear that today YouTube has created off-site subscribe buttons – allowing developers to add the ‘Subscribe Button’ to external websites encouraging more user subscribes. Previously the only way to subscribe to someone’s channel was on the YouTube site itself, […]
Read More | ShareWindows 8 Launches in Australia [VIDEO]
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At midnight last night, some electronics stores around Australia – namely Harvey Norman started selling Microsoft’s Windows 8 Operating System. I was not there, I was tucked into bed asleep but the people at Gizmodo Australia got this video of Gerry Harvey selling the first copy of Windows 8 in Australia. Do note this video […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Launches Global Pages with Country Localisation
Facebook have announced that their Global pages product is coming soon, which will allow you to have 1 Fan-page but send different messages to users in different locations. This means brands can concentrate on promoting one particular Fan-page but still be able to send the right messages to targeted, local audiences. Here is an example of how a page is […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Launches Disavow Links Tool
In the world of SEO, a lot of it comes down to having a large number of quality links pointing to your site. We are also starting to see social signals influence search rankings but mostly it is your backlink profile. Over the recent Panda and Penguin updates, Google has started to penalise websites with […]
Read More | ShareYahoo7 builds and launches new Oztips site
Over the past couple of months it seems Yahoo has had some issues with the Oztips site. I’ve had many people come to me and explain their frustration with an unreliable and inaccurate tipping service. I have been told of tipping competitions that have been ruined by Oztips providing the wrong stats about games, players […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Launches Chrome TV ads in Australia
Google has now released TV commercials showing off their Chrome web Browser. The ads use Lady GaGa as the main inspiration of using the web, connecting with people and finding your latest content. This is an interesting move by Google to further promote Google Chrome. According to statcounter.com, Chrome has a 16.5% market share in […]
Read More | ShareFacebook integrates with Skype and launches video chat
Facebook has further integrated Skype into it’s platform, now allowing users to video call each other inside Facebook. The feature is being rolled out to all users globally and Australian users are now able to access this feature. Facebook has made a page specifically explaining all the video chat features here: http://www.facebook.com/videocalling I can see […]
Read More | ShareGoogle launches Google+ Social Network
Google has launched a new social network/ social media site called Google + https://plus.google.com The product is in Beta mode and only available for selected people with an Invite from Google. The tool is to rival other social media sites, mainly Facebook. The product has a couple different features: Circles Circles allow you to share […]
Read More | ShareGoogle +1 launches in Australia
Google +1 has now been launched to some Google account users in Australia, with complete rollout due by the end of the week. The Google +1 button could be considered, in my opinion a ‘Social search recommendation engine‘, as the button allows user to ‘vote’ for a particular piece of content/brand/identity in Google Search results, […]
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