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
50 Most Popular Brand Fan pages on Facebook – Dec09-June10
Below is a list of the 50 most popular brands with Facebook pages. Celebrities / music bands etc have been left off the list. Creating a Facebook fan page is a great way to expose your business in a viral way to new customers and contacts. The top 100 list is made up of many […]
Read More | ShareAmazon Cloud environment down-time
Amazon.com has one of the most sophisticated cloud computing environments today (along with Microsoft). This enables the company to scale their computing requirements and resources as and when they need. During holiday periods of high traffic they can easily boost the hardware required to keep their site operational and speedy. Last Tuesday Amazon.com had a […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare reaches 1 Million check-ins per day
Foursquare has now reached 1 Million check-ins per day coming from around 1.8 million global users. This shows a good % of Foursquare’s user base is accessing their product on a daily basis. Foursquare recently got $20 million in a second-round venture capitalist investment mainly by Andreessen Horowitz, valuing the company at around $95 million. […]
Read More | ShareiOS and Android Developer numbers [STATS]
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There are alot of developers now developing apps for both the iOS and Android operating systems. AppStoreHQ.com put together a survey of all their developers on both the iOS and Android and the stats looking something like this: – 43,185 iOS developers – 10,199 Android developers – 1415 developers building apps on both platforms. Apple […]
Read More | ShareApple accepts iPhone reception issue and working on Software fix
Apple has now accepted the iPhone 4 antenna reception issue and is working on a software fix to try and rectify the situation. However the fix is not exactly concrete. Apple claim that the phones are displaying a faulty reception reading, ie the number of reception bars displayed is actually too much. If your iPhone […]
Read More | ShareApple iAd Advertising Platform released
Apple has said the iAd will push mobile advertising into the mainstream adverting markets and also fuel the 3rd party apps market with it. There has however been comments from developers and advertisers that its proprietary nature is too limiting in their eyes. Now it is up to Apple to convince otherwise. Steve Jobs presented […]
Read More | ShareGoogle acquires ITA Software for $700million USD, enhancing Travel Search
Google has purchased ITA Software (www.itasoftware.com), a company known for its airfare search and pricing system QPX. The ITA Software is used by many US and international airlines. The acquisition was done in $700 million USD, cash. No stock purchase this time from Google. This is an area Google feels they have some ground to […]
Read More | ShareAustralia and the Social Web
As Australian’s we spend more time on social media sites than any other country in the world – at around 8 hours per month for the average user. But what sort of social networking activities are we getting involved in and to what extent? Australian social media figures: – Approximately 5 million Australian users of […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare updates app for iOS4 – version 1.9
Foursquare has updated their iPhone application to be fully compatible with the new iOS4 operating system. This is version 1.9 of the Foursquare iPhone app. Upgraded features include fast app switching, high resolution pictures and icons for the iPhone 4?s retina display, and a map views. The Map view allows you to view where all […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Applications now tell what Private Data is Shared
Facebook is rolling out a new feature that requires 3rd party applications to inform users exactly what parts of their profiles will be shared to make the applications work. Applications already had to ask for user permission to access anything in their profiles that wasn’t public. But these apps didn’t actually have to specify what […]
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