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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

Twitter launches their own official Tweet button

Twitter has launched their own official Tweet button, similar to TweetMeme. When you click on the Tweet Button, a Tweet box will appear that is pre-populated with a shortened link that points to the content you are sharing. TweetMeme who is currently seeing more than 750 million retweets every day has said they will be […]

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Social Media Jobs Australia Launched

Hello All, Quick update to let you know we have created a jobs section on the site for Social Media Jobs and related disciplines. We will cover all areas of Social Media/ Digital/ Marketing/ Management jobs etc, such as: – Social Media Consultants – Producers – Marketing/ PR – Internships – Executive/ Management – Other […]

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Trojan Virus hits Android Phones

David Correll on August 11, 2010 | Android Google | Comments (0)

There have been reports surfacing across the web that the first virus has been detected on Android phones. Computer Security company, Kaspersky, has found a an Android app called ‘Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a’ The app basically pretends to be a media-player application, but once installed sends SMS messages to premium high cost numbers without the owners knowledge. Often, […]

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How Facebook generates revenue [INFOGRAPH]

David Correll on August 9, 2010 | Facebook | Comments (0)

Facebook was launched in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg for Harvard students to connect with eachother. After 1 month half of Harvard students had a profile. Now today Facebook has over 500 million users and is planning to generate $1 billion- $1.1 billion profit in 2010. Have a look at the below infograph about how Facebook […]

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History of Apple [INFOGRAPH]

David Correll on August 9, 2010 | Apple | Comments (0)

Here is a cool infograph showing you how Apple has grown as a company from being founded in 1976 to today. 3 men – Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne created the company on April 1, 1976. Interestingly enough Apple now has a market capitalisation bigger than Mircosoft yet only has 1/3 of Microsoft’s annual profit. hmm? […]

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Techonomy- Technology to create a new Economy

David Correll on August 7, 2010 | Bill Gates technology The Bigger Picture | Comments (0)

Over the last couple days the TECHONOMY CONFERENCE 2010 at Lake Tahoe in the US has been underway. Technology leaders such as Bill Gates have joined the discussion on how Technology is going to be a key tool it moving the human race forward as we face a new set of challenges with population growth […]

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Google Wave, retirement

David Correll on August 6, 2010 | Google Google Wave | Comments (0)

Google has admitted in a blog post that the Google Wave product never gathered enough users and there is now the possibility that the product will be pulled. Google has said they will continue supporting the product for the rest of the year and the code will be open source so other developers can use […]

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Social Media Forum Relaunched, Join today!

David Correll on August 5, 2010 | Australia Social Media | Comments (0)

Hi all, I was looking at the old forum software i was using and realised it was difficult to use and unattractive. I have created a new social media forum at http://forum.socialmedianews.com.au We can discuss all things social media related (and not), and i invite you to join the forum and discuss any topics of […]

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Facebook to Build New 300,000 Square Foot Data Centre

David Correll on August 4, 2010 | Facebook | Comments (0)

As a result of Facebook’s massive growth over the past year, and now hitting 500 million users globally – the company has decided to build a 300,000 square foot datacentre in Prineville, Oregon – USA. Facebook is designing the data centre with energy efficiency in mind and utilising the latest ‘green’ technologies to do this. […]

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