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
The Final Price Facebook Paid for Instagram: $715 Million USD
Facebook recently reported their quarterly earnings and the news is rather positive. To give you a recap on the most important highlights for their Q3 2012 earnings: Total revenue for the quarter – $1.26 billion USD Year-over-year ad revenue growth accelerated to 36% Ads in Facebook’s news feed make $4 million (USD) per day and […]
Read More | ShareApple Announces the New iPad Mini & 4th Gen iPad
On November 2, Apple will start shipping their latest tablet release – the new iPad Mini. The device will weigh just 0.31KG and 7.2mm thin, making it 53 percent lighter and 23 percent thinner than the current iPad 3. Preorders will begin on October 26 (the same day Windows 8 is realeased) – it’s going […]
Read More | ShareBill Gates gives his thoughts on Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Microsoft Surface [VIDEO]
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We don’t often hear from Bill Gates about Microsoft products anymore, but Mr Gates has given us his thoughts on Microsoft’s new operating system – Windows 8, Windows Phone at and their new tablet device – Microsoft Surface. Watch this video here to see what Bill has to say. Personally I am really excited to […]
Read More | ShareBrazilian Filmmaker Creates Short Film From Instagram Photos
We came across this neat video by Brazilian Filmmaker, Fernando Sanches who made a short video entirely from his Instagram photos. This film is called Summer Eleven. This was made in mid 2011 but only recently uploaded to Vimeo. Fernando obviously shot all the photos from his iPhone in locations such as Berlin, Lisbon, and Amsterdam. Pretty remarkable […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Launches Global Pages with Country Localisation
Facebook have announced that their Global pages product is coming soon, which will allow you to have 1 Fan-page but send different messages to users in different locations. This means brands can concentrate on promoting one particular Fan-page but still be able to send the right messages to targeted, local audiences. Here is an example of how a page is […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft Releases Surface Pricing For Australia
Microsoft Surface Tablets are now available for pre-order via their website. There are going to be 2 models for sale – a 32GB version and a 64GB version. The Australian pricing is as follows: 64 GB with Black Touch Cover AU789.00 incl. GST 32 GB with Black Touch Cover AU679.00 incl. GST 32 GB without […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Launches Disavow Links Tool
In the world of SEO, a lot of it comes down to having a large number of quality links pointing to your site. We are also starting to see social signals influence search rankings but mostly it is your backlink profile. Over the recent Panda and Penguin updates, Google has started to penalise websites with […]
Read More | ShareThe Pathetic Twitter Loser
Twitter is an interesting social media platform – almost all users are public and the service allows us to post short messages, generally without annoying your friends (aka Facebook). Personally, I use Twitter 85% for work, maybe 15% for chatting with colleagues/ acquaintances/ friends. With Facebook, if you dribble pointless updates all day people will start […]
Read More | ShareHamilton Island Launches Instagram Photo Campaign/Competition
Hamilton Island are undertaking an interesting social media campaign to raise awareness of the island as a holiday destination and also increase their social media presence among other Australian’s, visitors, tourists and general holiday-goers. Hamilton Island is managing this social media campaign internally – which is great to see, and the focus of the campaign will be […]
Read More | ShareBoost Your Homepage SEO With This Social Media Share Button Tweak
We have discussed in the past how lots of social media sharing and retweets can boost your websites SEO. Google has admitted they look at social media websites to use social signals as part of their search algorithms. Facebook is a closed system and Google has said many times they can’t access the site properly, whilst Twitter […]
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