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
Apple to patent Facebook iPhone integration
Apple has submitted a patent to integrate the Facebook application into the iPhone as a native application, instead of a 3rd party application. The patent specifically show how to add a contact as a Facebook friend. You can begin by connecting to Facebook and sending a friend request to one of your contacts (target device). […]
Read More | ShareMySpace ups security in wake of Facebook privacy concerns
MySpace has announced that their privacy options are changing which will result in user profiles to be defaulted ‘private’ only sharing personal information to friends. This seems to be the exact opposite of Facebook’s current strategy. MySpace, Co-President Mike Jones comments: “We respect our users’ desires to balance sharing and privacy, and never push our […]
Read More | ShareSearch Engine rankings – April
As Australian search engine data is not as freely available we look at the US market data courtesy of Neilson company. In April 9.72 billion online searches we run. Google had 65.7% market share at 6.4 billion searches. Yahoo had 13.4% market share at 1.3 billion searches. Microsoft’s Bing had 12.2% market share at 1.2 […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare growing FAST- 600,000 checkins per day
Foursquare is now getting 600,000 checkins per day from users worldwide. In March they were getting 400,000 checkins per day, and in February was generating 1 million checkins per week. Foursquare is growing fast. Apparently Yahoo has walked away from their previous to buy Foursquare for $100 million, but may be back with a lower […]
Read More | ShareFacebook to release new security features
Amid all the controversy of Facebook’s privacy policy lately – the company realises more and more scammers and hackers are trying to use the site for identity theft. With a globally user count of over 400 million is not surprising. As a result the Facebook security team have come up with a raft of new […]
Read More | ShareAnother day at Microsoft analysing tech market acquisitions
Many say Microsoft has been the most successful company in history. In both where they started out and what they have achieved today, not to mention how Bill Gates helps 3rd world countries through the Gates Foundation. Microsoft CFO Peter Klein notes that more and more tech deals are coming to the table now that […]
Read More | ShareBooyah! secures $20 Million in venture funding
Booyah! a rival to Foursquare in the Geo-location mobile application space has secured a further $20 Million venture capitalist funding. Booyah! has released the iPhone application MyTown and Keith Lee who is the CEO says the funding will gBooyah! secures $20 Million in venture fundingo towards hiring new staff and building new projects. MyTown has […]
Read More | ShareGowalla releases iPad application, Foursquare not yet
Whilst we cant get our hands on the iPad in Australia just yet, Geo-location social service Gowalla has released their iPad application last week. I would have thought Gowalla would priorities realeasing their Blackberry application, which is due out in about 2 weeks according to their CEO Josh Williams. Foursquare on the other hand is […]
Read More | ShareYoutube announces 2 Billion videos views per day
YouTube has announced that their website is getting 2 Billion video views per day. Youtube have also mentioned 24 hours of video is uploaded to the site every minute. The company is celebrating their 5th birthday this week and have complied a presentation on their history at – www.youtube.com/fiveyear and make sure you check out […]
Read More | ShareBing mobile app gets turn by turn navigation
If you use a Windows mobile phone or BlackBerry you can now download the Bing App which features turn by turn navigation on Bing maps. How much? Free. Go to: http://www.discoverbing.com/mobile/learn.html Whats unfortunately however is that Bing still hasn’t reintroduced and iPhone app for the Australian market. Bing originally made their iPhone app available globally, […]
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