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
Bumping up your PHP memory in WordPress
WordPress has changed the way many of us create sites on the internet. Such an easy to use and customisable content management system (CMS) has turn many web-wannabe’s into WordPress developers. The possibilities are pretty much endless now. A problem I have always ran into is bumping up my apache server memory limit from 32MB […]
Read More | ShareAustralian Facebook users pass 10 million
Facebook’s head of U.S. agency relations Sarah Personette has released some interesting statistics about Facebook usage around the world. In Australia there are now over 10 million registered users, and 66% of these users return daily. This shows Facebook marketing is now able to reach a significant total of the Australian population. In comparison, the […]
Read More | ShareA note to Julia, from Tim.
This is a note from my friend Tim, to Julia Gillard. This isn’t really related to Social Media, but i wanted to post it up anyway – thanks David. Dear Julia. From Tim. You might recall that we met at the founding of the National Union of Students. I guess it was 1985. Myself and […]
Read More | ShareNews 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 […]
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