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
Australian 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 […]
Read More | ShareGoogle’s Social Media History
Over the years Google has made many attempts to join the social media realm. Some successful some not. There have been rumors lately that Google is launching a product Google Me which will be a Facebook competitor. Lets look at Google’s history with social media to date: – Feb 17, 2003, Google buys Pyra Labs […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare v Gowalla [FACTS]
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Over the past year there has been lot of talk about Geolocation mobile services Foursquare and Gowalla. There are more players in this space but these 2 hold a majority of the location market. A recent report by RJMetrics compared the services via their API data. Some key facts to note: – Foursquare now has […]
Read More | ShareAir New Zealand offering Foursquare specials
Air New Zealand is offering customers special deals when they check in on Foursquare. The way the promotion works is if you become a mayor of any of their 12 Airport venues you are given free access to their Koru lounges which is like ‘business class lounge’ in Australia. Some of the venues include: Auckland […]
Read More | ShareFacebook 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, […]
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