Category: Facebook
Facebook and Foursquare talking
There has been rumors lately about a potential acquisition or some form of partnership between Facebook and Foursquare. Foursqaure, whilst small in size has already been successful in monetarising the business by partnerships with US companies such as History Channel, Bravo, MTV, VH1, Zagat, the Wall Street Journal, and more. Facebook is interested in expanding […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media stats in Australia- Facebook, Blogger, MySpace
On a per capital basis Australia has one of the highest uptakes of social media in the world. Out of our population of 21 million, 14 million Australians are internet users. The most popular social media sites in Australia are: Facebook, Blogger and MySpace. Facebook has 9.2 million Australian users which is almost 66% of […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft adds new social search feature to Bing
Microsoft has added a new social search feature to the Bing search engine allowing users to see the trending topcis on Facebook and Twitter. You are able to access the Bing social search at the following link www.bing.com/social No doubt there will be a lot of trending tweets about Justin Bieber 🙂 Microsoft Senior Vice […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Revolution in Australia
BoxHill Institute in Melbourne, Australia is an education provider and Eric Qualman has put together a presentation on some key social media statistics in Australia and world-wide. To summaries: – Australia is the most prolific social media users in the world beating the USA and UK on a per capita basis. – In the US, […]
Read More | Share20 Interesting Social Media statistics
20 Interesting Facts about Social Media #1 – Social media spending is expected to increase from $716 million in 2008 to $3.1 billion in 2014, which is a compound annual growth rate of 34% (CAGR) #2 – That 34% CAGR means that social media spending is growing faster than any other interactive marketing category #3 […]
Read More | ShareYahoo and Facebook partner
Yahoo and Facebook are forming a partnership whereby Yahoo Mail users can view their friend updates inside their Yahoo Mail account and login to Facebook. Yahoo will also enhance its Yahoo Profiles service to incorporate social media updates. Yahoo Profiles is a service whereby Yahoo users can connect with each-other and share basic information like […]
Read More | ShareSolo Goes Social
Solo and the Qantas Socceroos have teamed up to create a new social media campaign which is designed to help gather supporters in the lead up to this years soccer World Cup in South Africa. I first got the heads up of the campaign when I pulled up behind a truck showing this signage: The […]
Read More | ShareFacebook’s Mark Zuckerberg on Privacy at D8 Conference
At the All Things Digital – D8 conference in California, Mark Zuckerberg answered questions about Facebook’s privacy controls and Mark’s take on privacy. Mark discusses the instant personalisation feature and how lots of new Facebook products have complicated the privacy settings and views from users. More than 100,000 sites how have instant personalisation and social […]
Read More | ShareFacebook’s Advertiser Clients Increase by 400%
According to recent reports Facebook has increased in number of advertisers over the past year by 400% A common misconception amongst users is that Facebook sells their users data to 3rd party companies. Facebook has never done this – all private data submitted to Facebook does not get sent to 3rd party companies. Another area […]
Read More | ShareMark Zuckerberg on Facebook privacy: VIDEO
Q&A session with Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the latest privacy changes by Facebook. Mark discusses how users will be able to edit their privacy settings in a much simpler format that previously available. Mark says it was never Facebook’s intention to make settings complicated for users. As a result the engineering team has been […]
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