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
Yelp security puts Facebook user details at risk
Yelp, a social networking, user review, and local search engine website is one of only 3 websites so far to be eligible for Facebook’s highly controversial and anticipated Instant Personalisation feature. A security issue has come to light where a malicious site could harvest a Facebook user’s name, email, and data shared with everyone on […]
Read More | ShareFacebook to launch location based features, hush hush for now
Facebook will soon be launch location-based feature, but the company has denied reports that it is already working with marketing partners on the product. We dont really know any more than that at the moment however the code for this feature is available on the touch.facebook.com site. Facebook has release several statements in regards to […]
Read More | ShareGoogle looking to hire ‘Head of Social’
Google has hired an executive recruiter to look for a ‘Head of Social’ chief. Google has been particularly slow in the social front. Services such as Orkut never took off, and Google Buzz caused much criticism post launch. According to reports this position has been given 2 important tasks to seek out: 1. building an […]
Read More | ShareTwitter Business Centre is coming
Twitter has confirmed that they are currently BETA testing their ‘Twitter Business Centre’. Using this feature as a business allows the following: – create a customer Business Twitter profile page – Add a ‘verified account’ badge to your business profile – Allow multiple users to tweet from your business account. Twitter is also allowing business […]
Read More | ShareTwitter bug lets you control your followers
The is a bug in the Twitter system that lets users decide who is following them. It has been reported that writing ‘(tweet) accept (username)” then the (username) starts following you immediately. This has been confirmed by many Twitter account now following an increase number of users who have not been manually followed. Many people […]
Read More | ShareLinkedIn now 7 years old
Just last week LinkedIn turned 7 years old, birthday time! LinkedIn was launched May 2003, which makes it older than several other social media/networking sites. As we mentioned LinkedIn stats recently – 65 million users have signed up to the service, and around 1 million in Australia. There have been estimates of LinkedIn’s value in […]
Read More | ShareAustralian Mining supertax gaining support, via Facebook
Kevin Rudd’s Super Profit Tax for mining giants is starting to gain more popularity with the general public and rightly so. Australians want to benefit from the natural resources in our country – not giving all the profit to Global Mining companies. So much so, that The Australian Workers’ Union have created a Facebook group […]
Read More | ShareYahoo analyses iPad users behaviour
In a recent blog post Yahoo has given some very interesting information on usage rates by iPad users looking at Yahoo media. Yahoo found that iPad usage on Yahoo Finance, Sports, News was on average, 100% higher than, ie double that of other users. Usage was for photosharing service Flickr was nearly 150% higher. It […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft launching KIN smartphone in US
Microsoft is preparing for the release of its KIN smartphone. Pre-orders of the device start on 6 May, and retail availability is due for 13 May in the US. No details yet on when this device will be hitting Australian shores but Microsoft has highlighted the social networking features of the KIN, which include Twitter, […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft to continue supporting flash in IE9
Microsoft has confirmed that they will still be supporting Flash in IE9, as a plugin feature like they have always done. Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of Internet Explorer said “the future of the web is HTML5” and many thought this see Microsoft drop support for Flash. However this is not the case – Hachamovitch had […]
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