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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

YouTube facts and figures

David Correll on July 1, 2010 | Youtube | Comments (0)

YouTube has grown into the largest video sharing and video content site there is today. Have a read over some very interesting facts about the site: 2005 February 2005, the origional founders registered the domain youtube.com April 23, 2005 – first video uploaded to the site May 2005 – beta launch June 2005 – embedding […]

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AdMob May 2010 Mobile Metrics Report released, Android Apple battle

Google’s Admob have released their May Mobile metrics report giving the latest information on mobile operating system market shares. The main fight is between Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android operating systems. Apple is the clear leader at the moment but Android is making some significant gains. In terms of mobile ad requests, Apple is leading […]

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Facebook iPhone app updated for iOS4

David Correll on July 1, 2010 | Facebook | Comments (0)

Facebook have today updated their iPhone app so it is compatible with the new iOS4 operating system. As a result you can expect fast app switching using multitasking and support for high resolution icons/graphics. Facebook is the most popular iPhone application to date and a little strange it took them so long to get the […]

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Facebook launches Recruiting Tool for pages

David Correll on June 30, 2010 | Facebook | Comments (0)

Facebook has launched a new app called Work For Us which enables your Facebook company page to become a recruiting tool – allowing companies to post jobs and receive applications via Facebook. The application went live earlier this year, and has now passed the 1,000 business users Once companies have installed the app, a ‘Work […]

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Foursquare secures $20 million in VC funding

David Correll on June 30, 2010 | Foursquare | Comments (0)

Foursquare has completed their second round of Venture Capitalist funding – securing $20 million mainly from VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. There has been speculation that Facebook or Yahoo was going to purchase funding but this latest move puts that issue to rest. Foursquare now employs 27 people and is close to reaching 1.8 million users […]

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Social Media and Online Video [STATS]

David Correll on June 30, 2010 | Facebook MySpace Social Media Youtube | Comments (0)

Over the past couple years the use of video across the web has exploded. Video used to be a technical and ‘hard to create’ media – but now with an abundance of online tools it is easier than ever for regular internet users to create and watch videos online. Social Media Video statistics to take […]

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Australians getting more involved in Social Media

David Correll on June 29, 2010 | Australia Microsoft Social Media Social Networking Yahoo | Comments (3)

Over the past year in Australia users going to social media sites and forums have increase 36.1% over the year. This means that social media usage is overtaking search engines as the most visited web destination by Australians. Facebook has benefited more of our adaption to social media. Facebook accumulated 56.4% of all social networking […]

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iPhone 4 reception issue [VIDEO]

David Correll on June 29, 2010 | iPhone | Comments (2)

Steve Jobs has replied to the iPhone 4 reception issue with: ‘There is no issue. Stay tuned’ We can only speculate what this may mean, probably a software update to fix the issue. Hopefully the issue is fully resolved by the time iPhone 4 units are shipped to Australia. The below video shows how the […]

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Bingbot replacing MSNbot in October

David Correll on June 29, 2010 | Bing Microsoft | Comments (0)

Over the last couple month the Bing web team has been busy refining and rolling our improvements to their web crawling software that indexes website on Bing.com On October 1st 2010, MSNbot will cease to crawl and will be replaced by Bingbot. This will show in your server logs as: bingbot/2.0 The HTTP header From […]

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Hitler iPhone 4 parody [VIDEO]

David Correll on June 28, 2010 | iPhone | Comments (1)

Ok, so there is a lot of tension at the moment about the iPhone 4 antenna reception and call drop outs/ quality. Apple have said: – hold the phone differently – buy a case This is not exactly leaving a great impressions for Apple enthusiasts / fanboys. Michael Ingram Jr of mingramjr created the following […]

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