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
Why CFOs and Lawyers arn’t using social media?
CFOs and Lawyers have displayed a slow uptake when it comes to using social media for marketing and promoting their services/expertise. Many think it is out of their scope/desires. Some financial and legal people think the leads and contacts they get from social media would be of no value. Many are just too busy to […]
Read More | ShareMySpace Co-President Jason Hirschorn departs
MySpace and News Corporation have announced that Co-President Jason Hirschorn has decided to leave the company. MySpace has had quite a few of their executives leave the company over the past year. Chief Digital Officer of News Corp, Jon Miller released the following statement: ‘We fully respect Jason’s decision to leave and his personal desire […]
Read More | ShareWordPress 3.0 now available
WordPress 3.0 has just been released. If you are using WordPress you will see the update link has now appeared inside your WordPress account. 3.0 is the thirteenth major release of the popular blogging software. It has taken 6 months and 218 contributors to create. The best way to find out more about version 3.0 […]
Read More | ShareAOL finally sells Bebo
There have been reports that AOL have finally sold the social network – Bebo. AOL originally purchased Bebo in 2008 for US$850 million. Unfortunately AOL has been unable to make anything out of Bebo and the purchase has been considered a major business flop. Criterion Capital Partners seem to have now purchased Bebo for around […]
Read More | ShareYahoo Australia buys Sports Tipping Site OzTips
Yahoo!7 – the Australian arm of Yahoo has acquired a Australian sports site OzTips.com OzTips is Australia’s largest online sports tipping sites which allows users to create private tipping competitions between friends / colleagues/ family etc. This now doubles the audience Yahoo!7 sports has. Yahoo!7 is purchasing OzTips from the parent company NextGen.Net Pty No […]
Read More | ShareMobile search growing
With the abundance of cheap web enabled mobile phones now – businesses cannot ignore the power of mobile search. Currently mobile search only accounts for about 9% of all search queries (with the other 91% on the computer). RBC Capital Markets in the US have done a study showing that currently mobile search accounts for […]
Read More | ShareFacebook to provide SSL access (HTTPS)
Facebook has been praised by privacy advocates around the world for rolling out more simplified privacy controls last month. The privacy changes have also won praise from much of its users as now controlling your personal information is much more simple. Facebook has not said they are looking to roll out SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) […]
Read More | ShareTwitter to roll out new ads in Trending Topics
Twitter is testing a new feature allowing ads in the Trending Topics section. The feature is part of the Promoted Tweets, a tool Twitter is using to promote businesses and connect with its fans. If you look at the trending topics on the right hand side of your Twitter home you may see something like […]
Read More | ShareOrgasm over Social Media
What the?? Do you love Social Media so much that it gets you hot and steamy, maybe even to orgasm? I bet not.. This is getting weird.. Relax.. But I bet there are some absolute Social Media nuts who find social media orgasmic? Maybe i am just writing all this as an excuse to show […]
Read More | ShareBing added to Opera Browser
Microsoft has completed a deal with rival internet browser Opera, making Bing one of the default search engines in the browser search field. If you want to download the latest version of Opera 10.60 Beta goto: http://www.opera.com/browser/next/ Google will still remain as the Default search, but getting Bing infront of Opera users is a good […]
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