Microsoft Purchases Skype for $8.5 Billion
Microsoft has just announced their purchase of VOIP software, Skype for $8.5 Billion USD. It is surely expected that Microsoft will closely integrate Skype with Microsoft Office, Windows Phone, XBox Live, Kinect, and no doubt various other Microsoft platforms. Skype currently has over 660 Million accounts globally and over 150 million regular users. Windows Live […]
Read More | ShareDebugging WordPress
If you are running a WordPress installation and are using many 3rd party plugins – it’s probably worth your while as part of regular WordPress maintenance to Debug your site. Using a combination of plugins often causes the doomed Blank White WordPress pages, category links not working, and sitewide searching often doesn’t work as well […]
Read More | ShareClaim your Facebook Email Address Now
Facebook previously started rolling out ‘Facebook Messages’ to many US users. This enabled Facebook users to create and claim their own personal Facebook.com email address. Many Australian’s are now reporting that they can also access this feature as Facebook rolls out this change to other countries. If you would like to claim your on free […]
Read More | ShareIt’s All about SEO, Free Do Follow Links – New SMN AU Advertiser
These days, I’d say the single most important aspect of Search Engine Optimisation is the amount of incoming links to your website. You could have a poorly constructed site, with the meta and title tags blank or filled out incorrectly – but if you have a large amount of incoming links this will negate most […]
Read More | ShareTwitter 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 […]
Read More | ShareTwitter 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 […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia, April 2011
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 […]
Read More | ShareWork with Us, and we’ll Work with You
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 […]
Read More | ShareYahoo sells Delicious to YouTube Founders
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 […]
Read More | ShareWordPress 3.1.2 now released
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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