David Correll
Editor and Founder of SocialMediaNews.com.au. I also run a Social Media Agency where I do consulting work and Social Media Management. Connect with me: Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook or contact me here. Alternatively, you can send me an email at david@socialmedianews.com.au
News Corp ready to sell MySpace
News Corp bought MySpace in 2005 for $580 million, when the site was the most popular social network on the internet. At this time Facebook started to gain more traction and by 2008 was the clear leader in social networking. This equated to bad timing by News Corp, and a hugely successful product by Facebook […]
Read More | ShareThe 7 types of iPhone Owners, Which one are you?
Here is a cool infograph from All Area Codes about the 7 different types of iPhone owners you will come across. Whilst the info is geared to the US – still more than relevant for us Australian’s. Thankfully I dont fall under any of these categories, I think. Can’t we just be a ‘regular’ user, […]
Read More | ShareSearch for Facebook deals in Australia soon – facebook.com/deals
With the deal a day market becoming increasingly competitive over the past couple months, Google trying to buy GroupOn in the US, Yahoo Australia buying spreets.com.au for $40 million AUD – Facebook is now getting in on the action with their own deals service through their mobile check-in platform. If you use a Facebook mobile […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – February 2011
Number of Unique Australian Visitors (UAVs) per month - February 2011 1. Facebook – currently has around 9.8 million unique Australian visitors going to the site every month. 2. Youtube – 6.7 UAVs / mo 3. Blogspot – 2.3 UAVs / mo 4. Twitter – 1,050,000 UAVs / mo 5. WordPress – 960,000 UAVs / mo […]
Read More | ShareJulian Assange talks about WikiLeaks on 60 minutes (US)
Julian Assange has spoken about WikiLeaks on the United States version of 60 Minutes, which they broadcasted from England where Assange is currently under house arrest for multiple offences (which many have questioned the validity of). Currently the US government is trying to charge Julian Assange for espionage for releasing hundreds of thousands of confidential […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Adds HTTPS Support
Facebook has increased security on the site by allowing users to access the site via a HTTPS (Secured) connection. You are able to turn on HTTPS so whenever you are on Facebook this is via the secure connection. This is done by the following: – goto https://www.facebook.com/editaccount.php – click ‘account security’ There will then be […]
Read More | ShareLinkedIn to go Public, IPO soon
LinkedIn has filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to publicly sell its shares on the open market. LinkedIn generated $120 million USD revenue in 2009 and from private trading the company has a valuation of around $3 billion USD. The site currently has 90 million members, with a reported 1 new member […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – January 2011
With Australia day over lets look at the Social Media Statistics across Australia for January 2011 – which sites are most popular? what is the trend? and can we see any new trends/ players in the Australian market? I think the most important stat to note is the number of Unique Australian Visitors (UAVs) per […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Periodic Table of APIs
Google is now probably the largest internet company in the world. With this comes a huge amount of data and wide range of Google service APIs – allowing developers all around the world to build applications and services using Google’s platforms. Trying to understand how they all interrelate, and just finding out the total number […]
Read More | ShareRumor: Facebook looking to launch their own smartphones
There has been speculation that Facebook and HTC are working together to create a Facebook-branded smartphone. The devices will run on a tweaked/modified version of the Google Android Operating System. There has been no confirmation from Facebook that they are indeed working on phone, so we will have to see over the coming months if […]
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