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
Social Media Halloween
Well today is October 31st, it’s Halloween – trick or treat! Whilst we don’t really celebrate it much in Australia we have compiled a couple pictures being shared on social networking bringing out the Halloween spirit. If you haven’t already seen, check out our scary web design infograph showing some neat tips on best practice […]
Read More | ShareInfograph: 7 Ways to Avoid Scary Web Design
Looking for some web design tips? Want to avoid some ‘scary’ web design mistakes? It is Halloween today after all! 🙂 Check out this great infograph by @LuminConsulting. This is great info for us and helps avoid amateur mistake with fonting, size, colours etc when designing websites. By the way, yeh.. Happy Halloween!! This has […]
Read More | ShareInstagram Photo Tips
Instagram is now one of the most popular 3rd party camera applications on the iPhone and it’s also supplemented the way many of us use Twitter. With a wide variety of filters we can make boring photos look cool/ retro/ vintage. I myself an also exploring with Instagram and it’s a lot of fun. Some […]
Read More | ShareBill Gates Video At University Of Washington
Bill Gates has just delivered a speech to the University Of Washington about a number of tech, science and humanitarian topics. Mr Gates also discusses about his work with Warren Buffett and them both giving away their money to help 3rd world countries, and also that the rich should be taxed much more. Mr Gates […]
Read More | ShareFacebook building Data Centre in North Pole
Facebook has decided they will be building a new data centre near the North Pole to increase performance of the site for European users. Currently Facebook has server farms in California, Virginia, Oregon and building another data centre in North Carolina. The site will specifically be at Lule, Sweeden which is not far from the […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Plus now available for Google Apps users
Google has made a number of new changes to the site recently, most noticeably support for Google Apps users to now use the Google Plus social network. Google was slow to activate the service for Plus users, and many did complain. As a result many people just signed up on their personal email accounts and […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media – No1 time online
According to recent Comscore data, Social Media accounts for the largest amount of time we are spending online. Here is the breakdown of the figures: Time Online Social Media websites account for 20.8% of out total time online Portals – 17.3% Entertainment – 13.8% Instant Messengers – 7.1% Email – 5.1% Other – remainder Online […]
Read More | ShareFirst Nokia/ Windows Phone released
The first Nokia Windows Phone has been released at the Nokia World Conference in London last night (Australia time). The phone is a Nokia Lumia 800. Specifications include: 1.4 GHz processor hardware acceleration graphics processor 512 MB of RAM 16 GB hard drive/ internal memory Carl-Zeiss 8-megapixel camera The phone will run on the Windows […]
Read More | ShareRoamz – Local – Social – Mobile
Roamz is a local start up in Surry Hills, Sydney who have created a new geo-location mobile application for the iPhone. The application merges local, social and mobile technology to provide users real time data about what is around them, anywhere in the world. Roamz is integrated with other social media sites such as Facebook, […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Music Service due in 2 weeks
There are rumors floating around that Google’s music service could be launching within the next 2 weeks. This will be a similar system to iTunes that Google are adding onto their free music store system at http://music.google.com – which currently lets users store up to 20,000 of their songs in the cloud for free. You […]
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