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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

Flickr upgrades iPhone app for High Defintion

Quick Update: I really enjoy using the Flickr iPhone app, great for taking photos on the go and upload to your account – couldnt get any easier. Even uploading 1MB files over 3G is fairly quick. Flickr has now released version 1.2 of their application that Allows High Definition (HD) video and picture uploads. If […]

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Mark Zuckerberg ABC Interview [VIDEO]

David Correll on July 23, 2010 | Facebook | Comments (0)

Diane Sawyer from ABC News in the US has interviewed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook HQ in Palo Alto. Here is the interview: Mark started Facebook when he was 19 years old and the company now employs 1600 people around the world. What do you think?

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Breaking down Facebook’s 500 Million Users

David Correll on July 23, 2010 | Facebook | Comments (0)

Ok, so Facebook has now hit the 500 million user make. Lets look at how this is broken-down. Of the 500 million users: 34% reside in North America 32% in Europe 9% in South America 3% in Africa 20% in Asia 2% in Australia Looking at Australian Facebook statistics, of our total population – there […]

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Microsoft Revenue Surges thanks to Office 2010 and Windows 7

David Correll on July 23, 2010 | Microsoft Windows | Comments (0)

Windows 7 was released to consumer in October 2009 and 9 months later 175 Million copies have been sold. This takes the title as the fastest selling Operating System in History. According to Microsoft in their last quarter they have $16.04 billion in revenue, a 22% increase. During the 2009-2010 Fiscal year Microsoft’s revenue was […]

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Microsoft to Give a Free Windows Phone 7 Device to Every Employee

David Correll on July 23, 2010 | Microsoft Windows 7 Phone | Comments (0)

Quick Update on Microsoft’s Windows 7 Phone. Microsoft is now going to give every employee in certain operation department around the world a free Windows 7 Phone. Considering that Microsoft hires almost 100,000 people globally this will be a great way to get phone out in the tech community. If you know someone who works […]

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5 Ways To Get More Retweets on Twitter

David Correll on July 23, 2010 | Twitter | Comments (0)

A retweet on Twitter is a able way to yield your agreeable that you’re administration with accepted followers and potentially authoritative it viral. When anyone retweets your column the bulletin goes above your claimed addict pool. It??™s instantly beatific to added new tweeters, which exponentially increases acquaintance about your cast through your tweet. Similar to […]

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Facebook Passes 500 Million Users

David Correll on July 22, 2010 | Facebook Social Media | Comments (0)

Facebook has announced that it has passed 500 million members. CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a blog post: ‘I could have never imagined all of the ways people would use Facebook when we were getting started 6 years ago. I want to thank you for being part of making Facebook what it is today and […]

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How Mark Zuckerberg Intends to Repair Facebook’s Battered Image

David Correll on July 21, 2010 | Facebook | Comments (0)

On Wednesday, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg will sit across from ABC News’ Diane Sawyer in his most high-profile interview since 2008. Sawyer interviews Mark interviewed on 60 Minutes in 2008. Facebook’s CEO does not give many interviews publicly, and for good reason: he it melted in the headlights at the D8 conference this year. When Zuckerberg […]

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Google Mobile Search and Ads Growing Rapidly in 2010

David Correll on July 21, 2010 | Google Mobile Search | Comments (0)

Not only has the volume of Google mobile search more than quintupled over the last two years, but the clickthrough rate for its click to call mobile ads are 6-8% better than ads on search without a number or URL associated with it according to Mike Steib, director of the new platforms at Google. Steib, […]

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Australian Political Election 2010, heats up [VIDEO]

David Correll on July 21, 2010 | Australia Government | Comments (0)

Ok, the election is just around the corner. Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott are at it, hard.. check out the latest video of their campaigning. typical politics..

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