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
Facebook 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 […]
Read More | ShareTourism Australia Facebook campaign going well
In 2008 Tourism Australia created a Facebook fan page for Australia and has now reached a fanbase of 500,000 people. To check out the page, Goto the Facebook Australia page on Facebook. Tourism Australia New Zealand Regional Manager Jenny Aitken says “The Australia Facebook page has been a great platform for relaxed and genuine conversation. […]
Read More | ShareInternet Explorer gaining Market Share
A latest report by Netshare shows the latest stats in regards to Browser market shares. Internet Explorer has long been in decline, however they are starting to gain back ground – most probably due to the popularity of Windows 7. For a long time Windows Vista failed to impress and it seems during this period […]
Read More | ShareTwitter to put Photos and Videos in your stream
There has been no official statements from Twitter, but they have been conducting tests on some user accounts where Videos and Pictures can be added into a users stream. No doubt Twitter will make a decision soon if the way this as a permanent part of their product. Personally, I don’t think they should. In […]
Read More | ShareMobile Search Market Share, July 2010 [STATS]
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Pingdom.com has recently conducted a random study of mobile users and their searching behaviour. Google currently has 98.29% market share in mobile search. The shares by Yahoo and Bing in comparison are minimal. Apple devices are probably contributing to around half the Google traffic being generated. Here is the graph from Pingdom. Bing and Yahoo […]
Read More | ShareiPhone 4 plans for Australia
Optus, Telstra, Three and Vodafone have all released their iPhone 4 pricing for the phones launch tomorrow, Friday 30 July. Firstly all carriers will be offering free bumper cases to alleviate the antenna/reception issue experienced by other users around the world. The iPhone 4 will make use of all the existing 3G data networks, nationally. […]
Read More | ShareMitsubishi Australia goes Social and Viral
Mitsubishi Motors is promoting a new web advertising campaign. Here is the statement we received from Mitsubishi Australia: This morning thousand and thousands of Australians will receive the news that the ASX has crashed. The ASX, for those who don’t know, stands not only for the Australian Stock Exchange, but also the Active Smart X-over, […]
Read More | ShareBing Webmaster Tools revamped
Microsoft’s Bing has revamped their webmaster tools and are now available for site owners to use. A couple new features include; Index Explorer: Allows you to browse through the Bing index in order to see which of your directories and pages have been included. Submit URLs: Lets you to tell Bing which URLs should be […]
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