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
Microsoft to update Bing entertainment search results
Microsoft is planning to improve the search results on Bing in relation to searches about music, television shows, movies and games. Senior Vice president of Microsoft’s Online Audience Business, Yusuf Mehdi, will be giving exact details during a press conference in West Hollywood, California on Tuesday 22nd June. TV show search results such as local […]
Read More | ShareMore Google Admob acquisition details revealed
More details have emerged about Google’s acquisition of the mobile advertising network AdMob. We aleady know the Google purchased Admob for US$750 million in stock and cash – but what was the exact split? The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have released details that Google sold $530 million in stock, indicating that Admob investors […]
Read More | ShareWordPress user statistics
Now that WordPress 3.0 is out lets look back at how WordPress has grown over the years and attracted new users. There are now about 11.4 million WordPress.com blogs created. These blogs are hosted for free by WordPress and the URL layout is something like www.yourname.wordpress.com These 11.4 million blogs have now posted more than 200,000,000 […]
Read More | ShareWhy 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) […]
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