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
VIDEO – Sean Parker at LeWeb
This is a great video from entrepreneur Sean Parker discussing Facebook, Spotify, Gowalla and may other of his tech interests and investments at LeWeb, Paris 2011. Sean Parker and also VC Shervin Pishevar go on to discuss about starting new businesses, and how tech industry can transform the music industry. For example in the last […]
Read More | ShareRadical Twitter Redesign – Thoughts?
Twitter redesigned their site last week and all users should now have access to the new twitter.com The redesign is rather radical and I can tell it would have been a huge project for the Twitter development teams. People are often opposed to IT change, especially with mainstream websites – I am not, I work […]
Read More | ShareBlekko – Yahoo! Site Explorer Alternative
A couple of weeks ago, Yahoo shut down their Yahoo! Site Explorer tool. This tool was a legacy Yahoo product used by web developers and SEO professionals to check a websites backlinks. In fact many people really enjoyed using this tool and surely provided Yahoo some useful search data. But no, Yahoo has now shut […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare Statistics – December 2011
Dennis Crowley, Foursquare Co-Founder and CEO has just released some interesting statistics about their geo-location mobile app. Stats include: 4 million check-ins per day 30 million venues world-wide 600,000 merchants using the business tools/ offers products 170,000,000 (170 million) API calls per day You can watch the full interview with Tech Blogger Robert Scoble at […]
Read More | ShareInstagram – iPhone App of the Year
Apple iTunes has released their yearly figures of the most popular applications sold and downloaded through iTunes. Apple also released their own favourite iPhone application picked by the Apple team, which this year is photo app Instagram. This is a great feat by Instagram as their iPhone app is just getting more and more popular. […]
Read More | ShareTwitter Redesign Rolling Out
Twitter is releasing a redesign of their site today, which is a totally new look and feel. We reported yesterday about Twitter releasing New Tweet, Follow Buttons. Twitter is also going to be releasing business pages, much like Facebook. Here is the promotional video that’s been released: I haven’t got the new version of Twitter.com […]
Read More | ShareTwitter releases New Tweet, Follow Buttons
If you haven’t not yet seen Twitter have updated their Tweet and Follow Buttons. Have a look above ^^^ and to the right –> to see for yourself. Go on, test the buttons out 🙂 The new minimalistic design does look good, and is rolling out automatically to sites that have the code installed. Basically […]
Read More | ShareVideo Blog: Social Media Weekly Recap 08-12-11
So I have been meaning to make a video blog for sometime now, and it’s fair to say I have been procrastinating a little. Anyway I had some time this morning and wanted to make my first video blog post. I hope to continue this every week, discussing the major topics of interest we have […]
Read More | ShareFacebook releasing Subscribe Button for Websites
Facebook for some time now has allowed the subscribe button on user profiles. This has been particularly useful for technology leaders, reporters, public figure, politician, celebrity, athletes etc. Facebook is now going to create a subscribe button that these people can embed on their websites, allowing users to easily subscribe to their public status updates. […]
Read More | ShareWhat is the NBN?
NBN Co have put together a nice video explaining exactly what is the National Broadband Network, and also some key statistics about Australian internet usage.
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