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
Social Media For Women [Event Sydney]
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Social Media Women is a networking event and group that encourages women to participate in social media activities. The event is held ever Second Tuesday of the month at the The Oxford Hotel, 134 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst from 6 – 8:30pm. To signup to the events goto the Social Media Women eventbrite page. To find […]
Read More | ShareHow Facebook generates revenue [INFOGRAPH]
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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 […]
Read More | ShareHistory of Apple [INFOGRAPH]
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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? […]
Read More | ShareTechonomy- Technology to create a new Economy
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 […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Wave, retirement
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 […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Forum Relaunched, Join today!
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 […]
Read More | ShareFacebook to Build New 300,000 Square Foot Data Centre
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. […]
Read More | ShareFacebook upgrades Android app
Facebook has done a much needed upgrade to their Android Facebook application. Android is now the 2nd most popular mobile operating software so it makes alot of sense for Facebook to upgrade their once bare bones application to something more powerful, similar to the iPhone app in terms of features. One feature that is still […]
Read More | ShareBing Maps adds tool to estimate Taxi Fare for Sydney & Melbourne
Bing Maps has created a new tool to give you an estimated cost of a taxi fair from one point to another. The tool, very much still in beta mainly has US locations to choose from. However the tool does have Sydney, Australia and we are able to estimate taxi fares to and from various […]
Read More | ShareTwitter Celebrates 20 Billion Tweets with Intermittent Downtime
ha ha. very funny. Twitter has recently hit 20 Billion Tweets according to Twitter tracking tool, Gigatweet. As of today Gigatweet was also registering close to 700 Tweets per second. Only 2 months ago Twitter was celebrating 15 Billion tweets so it looks like the figure of 20 billion is accurate. Not entirely surprising as […]
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