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
Foursquare Founders walk away with $4.6 million from VC funding
In the second round of Venture Capitalist funding, Foursquare Co-Founders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai have walked away with $4.6 million USD jointly from the $20 million given. Foursquare has said the founders sold shares so that investors could buy more. This allowed the Venture Capitalist to reach their desired equity level in the company. […]
Read More | ShareBill Gates Invests in Clean Car Technology
Over the past half century the human race has been trying to kurb our dependance and reliance on fossil fuels. Bill Gates is helping out by investing in a company that is looking to redesign the internal combustion engine. Over the past 100 years the internal combustion engine has not changed all that much – […]
Read More | Share10 Reasons Why Facebook wont Enter the Search Market
Facebook is very close to hitting 500 million users worldwide – 500 million users who spent a lot of time on the site. Many people are questing if Facebook could become a viable search engine with the mass following they currently have. Getting people to come to Facebook and making it their default place for […]
Read More | ShareAustralian Businesses Using Social Media to gain new Customers and Clients
Social networking has proven its success around the world in being a useful marketing tool for businesses and organisations. Australian internet users are also some of the highest users of social meida – we actually top the ranks globally in time spent on social media sites at around 8 hours per month for an average […]
Read More | ShareTwitVid launched SocialAds, buy Followers and Retweets
Twitter Video hosting service, TwitVid, has recently created and launched a new advertising platform called SocialAds. The purpose of this new advertising platform with SocialAds is rather straightforward – to get the advertiser more Twitter followers of your Twitter account and also more retweets of your content. The service is initially being aimed and brands […]
Read More | ShareUser Donations helping Reddit
Social Bookmarking Service, Reddit, has been in a spot of financial troubles lately and they asked their users if they could support the site with contributions. This has been a success with Reddit after about 6000 members donated to their cause. The donations will goto employing new staff and keeping the service reliable and online. […]
Read More | ShareFacebook increasing Child Safety with Panic Button
Facebook has agreed to implement a panic button to improve the online safety of its younger users. The button will only be available in the UK to start with but is expected to roll out globally over time – it would be smart to. Kids just have to install the following application, http://apps.facebook.com/clickceop/ Child Exploitation […]
Read More | ShareDigital Citizens: Crisis and reputation management, Social Media Event Sydney
Digital Citizens are holding Digicitz 5 next Tuesday, 20/07/2010 from 6:30pm. The theme of the event is: Crisis and reputation management: How to deal when the web gets antisocial Tickets are $10 each + a $1.50 booking free. To register goto: http://digicitz5.eventbrite.com For more information on Digicitz visit their site http://digital-citizens.org Speakers include: Matthew Gain, […]
Read More | ShareTweetDeck Hits 15 Million Downloads
TweetDeck is the most popular 3rd party Twitter client and yesterday celebrated 15 million downloads of their desktop software. This makes them 5 times more popular than their closest rival. Their iPhone application has also been downloaded 2.5 million times. TweetDeck has said their software generates four million tweets, status updates and buzz posts per […]
Read More | ShareeBay to use Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Environment
eBay is the largest online shopping site in the world with 200 million listings globally at any one time. eBay is used to solving complex scaling problems but they are now looking for the most effective computing infrastructure that allows automatic scaling of their computing / hosting requirements. As a result eBay is going to […]
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