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
Digital 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 […]
Read More | ShareNextstop Location service acquired by Facebook
Nexstop, a mobile location service has announced they have been acquired by Facebook. NextStop is a service that lets users create and browse through local guides and recommendations. Facebook is going to be shutting down Nextstop on September 1. Users are encouraged now to export their data. So why is Facebook acquiring this company? Facebook […]
Read More | Share3 Mobile gives free access to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare
Similar to other telco’s – 3 Mobile has announced customers on post-paid cap plans will now get free mobile internet access to social networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn and Foursquare. Due to the popularity of social networking sites 3 is making this offer available with no time limits or data limits – you […]
Read More | ShareFacebook, 3 Billion ‘Likes’ per day
Facebook is now serving 3 billion ‘Likes’ per day. Helping the cause, Facebook’s social plug-ins are now on around 350,000 sites globally. That figure was about 200,000 almost a month ago and 100,000 in May. The ‘Like’ buttons is part of the main infrastructure behind Facebook’s powerful recommendation engine. They feed into user ad targeting, […]
Read More | ShareDanni Minogue posts Baby photo on Twitter
Danni Minogue has recently given birth her baby boy Ethan and showed him off to the world via Twitter. You can follow Danni on Twitter here. The photo posted 2 days ago has already received over 50,000 view and almost 800 Facebook ‘Likes’.
Read More | ShareMission Australia Facebook Project
Mission Australia recently undertook the ‘1234 Project’ on Facebook. ‘The 1234 Project’ was launched on Facebook on the 11th June, which involved 1234 donating a pair of socks to a homeless person each time a Facebook supporter ‘Liked’ the 1234 Project page. Their target was 12,340 pairs of socks, and this was met with socks […]
Read More | ShareAustralian Privacy Commissioner shames Google
Australian privacy commissioner Karen Curtis has said Google broke Australia’s privacy law when it collected private Wi-Fi data. Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, previously shamed Google over their ‘creepy privacy policies’. Curtis commented: ‘Collecting personal information in these circumstances is a very serious matter. Australians should reasonably expect that private communications remain private’. The Australian Federal […]
Read More | ShareReddit in money trouble
Social Bookmarking service Reddit has recently had a bit of a slump in earnings and they are looking for people to help. In a blog post titled ‘Reddit needs help’, the company has explained they have 4 engineers that are really stretched to just keep the site working properly – with outages and slow performance […]
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