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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

Twitter buys TweetDeck

There are rumors floating around that in the next couple days Twitter will announce their purchase of TweetDeck. TweetDeck is a mobile application that allows users to easily manager their Twitter stream, timeline, @replied and messages – and was one of the first 3rd Party Mobile applications for Twitter. Twitter themselves were very slow to […]

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Twitter Introducting New Advertising Product?

Is Twitter introducing a new advertising product onto their site? If you sign-in to Twitter you will see a text based link on the right hand side of the page, below the trending topics section. Have a look: Twitter introduced Sponsored Tweets some time ago, and both Google and Bing are paying Twitter a fee […]

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Social Media Statistics Australia, April 2011

David Correll on April 29, 2011 | Australia Social Media | Comments (3)

Ok so it’s that time of the month again to have a look at the most popular Social Media and Networking websites in Australia. For your information you can find all the monthly statistics I am collating on my Social Media Statistics page. Also, should you be interested – you can check out the figures […]

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Work with Us, and we’ll Work with You

David Correll on April 28, 2011 | Australia Social Media Social Networking | Comments (0)

OK so my post for today is a little off topic from general Social Media News. Over the time I have built this blog – I have enjoy connecting with members of the Social Media Community in Australia. Now SocialMediaNews.com.au has several Contributing Authors across varying backgrounds and interests in Social Media. With unique visitors […]

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Yahoo sells Delicious to YouTube Founders

David Correll on April 28, 2011 | Delicious Yahoo | Comments (0)

Yahoo has now sold their social bookmarking service, Delicious, to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. There has been a fair amount of speculation that Yahoo was looking to sell off Delicious as they continually withdrew resources from the Delicious project. Regardless the site continues to get high traffic (Alexa rank: 239) and it […]

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WordPress 3.1.2 now released

David Correll on April 27, 2011 | WordPress | Comments (0)

Hi All, Just a quick update to let you know WordPress has released Version 3.1.2 of their blogging software. This release is a security update for all WordPress users. Updates include: – Fix tag bugs – Fix user query bug when ordering by post count – Fix contributor level vulnerability – Fix title bug when […]

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Doing your BAS? Follow the ATO on Twitter

David Correll on April 27, 2011 | Australia Government Twitter | Comments (0)

So its time for us to submit our quarterly Business Activity Statements (BAS), and this time round I noticed something slightly different. Usually the ATO includes a help/practice sheet so we have something to draft up instead of mucking up the actual lodgement form. This time around I noticed the ATO has included a Social […]

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Vodafone down, Easter Weekend, Social Media prevails

David Correll on April 24, 2011 | Australia Vodafone | Comments (2)

So this Easter Sunday, all of us Vodafone customers are enjoying out Easter Lunch/ Dinner, trying to send a SMS/TXT message but it seems the entire Vodafone TXT message network was down, and has only just come back. From 2:30pm, noone on Vodafone could send SMS till about 8pm, 24/04/11. Checking the Vodafone Network Status […]

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How ‘green’ is the iPhone? [Infograph]

David Correll on April 21, 2011 | Apple iPhone | Comments (0)

So there have been over 100 Million Apple iPhones sold now, and with the continued popularity of the iPhone 4, and soon (rumored) to be iPhone 5, how green and environmentally friendly are they? Well I’ve always got mine on the charger for some reason! Here is a neat infograph put together by Geekaphone showing […]

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Transferring your WordPress Blog to a new Webhost

David Correll on April 20, 2011 | Linux Webhosting WordPress | Comments (0)

The following Tutorial will help people on a Unix/ Linux webhosting setup and who are looking to transfer their WordPress site to a new webhosting company. Follow the below steps for a quick, hassle free Blog move: 1. Backup your entire Database. I have found using the Wp-Db-Backup plugin is the easiest to do a […]

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