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
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg on Privacy at D8 Conference
At the All Things Digital – D8 conference in California, Mark Zuckerberg answered questions about Facebook’s privacy controls and Mark’s take on privacy. Mark discusses the instant personalisation feature and how lots of new Facebook products have complicated the privacy settings and views from users. More than 100,000 sites how have instant personalisation and social […]
Read More | ShareTwitter working on more language translations
Twitter has announced that they are working on several translations of the site to give non-English users a better experience using the site. Twitter is working on the following language translations at present – Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Turkish. At the moment Twitter is in invite-only mode with users helping the […]
Read More | ShareFacebook’s Advertiser Clients Increase by 400%
According to recent reports Facebook has increased in number of advertisers over the past year by 400% A common misconception amongst users is that Facebook sells their users data to 3rd party companies. Facebook has never done this – all private data submitted to Facebook does not get sent to 3rd party companies. Another area […]
Read More | ShareTwitter Testing New ‘Follow’ Like Feature
Twitter has started testing a new simple feature that allows a user to view a list of avatars that he/she is currently following that are the same to another user. Yes, it is very similar to Facebook’s ‘friends in common’ feature but we think it is the right step forward for Twitter users to connect […]
Read More | ShareiPad 3G plan pricing, Optus, Telstra, Vodafone
The 3 main telecommunication carriers in Australia – Optus, Telstra, and Vodafone have now released details on their 3G plan prices for the iPad. Optus 3G iPad plans / pricing If you like Optus will sell you a prepaid 3G starter SIM with 3GB of data with 30 day expiry for $30. Prepaid recharge values […]
Read More | ShareNews Corp Exec: MySpace lost its way
News Corp Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Chairman Chase Carey fielded questions on MySpace at in New York late last month, admitting: ‘Clearly, MySpace lost its way a bit’. Carey went on to comment about the future of MySpace: ‘We’ve spent a lot of the time since last summer right-sizing, went through some layoffs, bringing […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Chrome Operating System coming out Q4
The Google Chrome OS is set to be released in the fourth quarter of this year. Google announced nearly a year ago that they were building the Chrome OS. The Chrome OS is an open source operating system designed for netbooks and built for speed, startup times, and speedy access to the internet. The OS […]
Read More | ShareGoogle adds Bing like picture to search page
We all know Google has the plain white search page and often changing Google logo. In a recent blog post Google is giving users the option to change their background logo on the search page which can be uploaded from the users computer or Picasa Web album. This allows the Google homepage to somewhat resemble […]
Read More | ShareSteve Jobs at D8 Conference, 1 iPad sold every 3 seconds
Steve Jobs has spoken at the D8 conference in California recently to give some further insights into Apple Inc as it is today, and how the company is impacting users and business world-wide. Steve thinks that Apple passing Microsoft in share market evaluation is great for the industry but in real terms ‘doesn’t matter’. Steve […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media campaign to reduce smoking rates
The Cancer Council of South Australia has recently been using several social media channels to spread their messages about anti-smoking campaigns. Cancer Council SA CEO, Professor Brenda Wilson said social media has the potential to reduce South Australia’s smoking rate from 20% to 17%. Every year a little over 1100 people die from smoking. The […]
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