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 Blog: Social Media Weekly Recap 15-12-11
Here is my video blog going recapping the most important social media news over the past week – 15 December 2011. Topics of discussion: New Twitter Redesign rolls out Twitter releases New Tweet, Follow Buttons Instagram – iPhone App of the Year Foursquare Statistics – December 2011 WordPress 3.3 Now Released WordPress releasing their own […]
Read More | ShareSelling Links Violates Google Policy
I came across an interesting article in the Google Support directory that discusses Paid Links. Specifically it says: Buying or selling links that pass PageRank violates Google’s Webmaster Guidelines Google goes on to say such practices of selling links will negatively impact that site in Google search results. There are actually many text link brokers […]
Read More | ShareGoogle+ Introduces Facial Recognition
Facial Recognition has been added to the Google+ social network as an opt-in feature. To enable this feature on your Google Plus account go to your settings page: https://plus.google.com/settings/plus Facebook some time ago added Facial Recognition to their site, but this feature was opt-out and could automatically recognise your face and those of your friends […]
Read More | ShareHigh-Level SEO Summary
On this blog we often talk about SEO, and how social media and search engine optimisation can work together. In the past we have discussed several interesting SEO topics, such as: SEO Summary Social Media SEO SEO Principals 2011 Link Building Strategies We also have a fairly comprehensive SEO archive with more articles. Today we […]
Read More | ShareHappy ‘Social Media’ Birthday
Well today is my birthday, 26, feeling oldddd. Well no, not really. Must enjoy the rest of my 20s whilst I still can. I was looking around at various topics of Social Media and Birthdays, didn’t find much besides a whole load of celebrities getting birthday greetings on Twitter, Facebook etc. So, that’s that. Back […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Mobile Ads
There is speculation that Facebook may be looking to introduce some form of ads into the mobile version of their site early next year. Currently Google and Apple lead the way in mobile display advertising, with smaller stakes to Millennial Media, Yahoo and Microsoft. With Facebook’s huge reach and high mobile usage (around 350 million […]
Read More | ShareWindows Store
Microsoft has been working on their Windows Store which will be compatible with Windows 7 and 8, x86 machines. The revenue split has been revealed which compromises of the following: initial revenue split of 70/30 to the developer once the app sells more than $25,000 the split will go to 80/20 to the developer Initially […]
Read More | ShareWordPress 3.3 Now Released
WordPress 3.3 has been released and you should start seeing the Upgrade button in your WordPress dashboard. A number of enhancements have been made, such as: Automatic file type detection on media upload Drag and Drop media interface More file formats allowed for upload WordPress Dashboard redesign New Header Admin toolbar New Info popups in […]
Read More | ShareVIDEO – 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 […]
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