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 Closing Their Virtual Giftshop August 1st
Facebook has decided to close their virtual Giftshop on August 1. The gift shop allowed users to buy Facebook credits which in turn could be Virtual Gifts which were sent to other users. This was one of the first user charging products on Facebook. Whilst the Giftshop will close on August 1, any remaining gifts […]
Read More | ShareWordPress for BlackBerry 1.3 Released
WordPress has released version 1.3 of their BlackBerry application into the BlackBerry App World. New features have been added in version 1.3, which are: – Option to load more than 100 comments – Option to load comments by status (all/spam/pendings) – You can edit the comment details (Author Name/email/URL address) – Allow you to manually […]
Read More | ShareFree Social Media Marketing Campaign by SocialMediaNews.com.au
The team at SocialMediaNews.com.au is proud to announce an additional new service offering being launched – Free Social Media Marketing Campaigns for Australian business, organisations, companies, government department, educational institutions, charities, not-for-profits and so on. The service is also available for select international businesses. If you don’t know where to start or don’t have the […]
Read More | ShareTwitter search queries growing 33%, up to 800 million
Twitter is now supporting 800 million search queries a day, which is a 33% rise from the 600 million per day reported previously in April (on an average day). This means Twitter is now handling around 24 billion search queries a month. Comscore reported that Bing was generating 4.1 billion monthly queries worldwide while Yahoo […]
Read More | ShareWhen will we see this sort of Social Media advertising in Australia?
I received a tip recently from John Oates, Project Manager, Vayner Media in the US. On July 1st, the start of NBA free agency, The Nets’ launched a 225 x 95 foot painted wall at the corner of 34th & 8th in NYC, just a few blocks from New York Penn Station, and more notably, […]
Read More | ShareMySpace Google Agreement up for Renewal
It is believed News Corporation is in discussions with Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo about replacing MySpace’s search engine advertising agreement. Google has the current agreement which is expected to expire in August. The agreement is $300 million/ year in revenue for MySpace and it very unlikely they will get anywhere near this figure going forward. […]
Read More | ShareNew Geolocation mobile app launched, Loopt
A new social Geolocation mobile app has launched – Loopt. Similar to Gowalla and Foursquare, Loopt is more social in that it lets you chat and interact with users around you. Currently the app is available on the iPhone. To download the App goto: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/loopt/id281952554 The app is also available on the iPad and is […]
Read More | ShareFirefox 4 Beta 1 Released
Mozilla has now released the first beta for their new browser, Firefox 4. Firefox is the 2nd most popular browser in the world with around 25% market share. This is one of several betas no doubt going to be released for Firefox 4. To download the new beta goto: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/ Firefox 4 is a major […]
Read More | ShareiPad Maxipad jokes, had to come
Spotted this today. You always hear about these iPad / Maxipad jokes but never actually see anything. Well here you go. :S moving on…
Read More | ShareSTATS of the Internet!
We all know the internet is big, and growing by the second. It is estimated that 5 new sites are being created every second. Here is some more info on the modern day internet- Google estimates the internet is now about 5 million terabytes of data (5 billion GB) Google has only indexed .004% of […]
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