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Web 2.0 Summit Video, Facebook, Yahoo, Google execs

The Web 2.0 Summit showcases some of the most influential and successful web entrepreneurs such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Eric Schmidt, Yahoo’s Carol Bartz, Twitter’s Evan Williams, AT&T’s John Donovan. This is a very interesting conference held in San Francisco, topics discussed include social media, e-commerce, classifieds sales such as Amazon – watch the […]

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WordPress releases official Nokia application

David Correll on November 1, 2010 | Nokia WordPress | Comments (0)

WordPress has released a Nokia application now available in the Ovi-Store. This is good news for Nokia WordPress users as they are now able to manage their blogs on the go. Whilst using WordPress on mobile devices will always limit functionality – they do provide a smart and quick way to manage comments/ spam etc. […]

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Australian Search Engine Market update October 2010

David Correll on October 29, 2010 | Bing Google Search Search Engines Yahoo | Comments (0)

Looking at the Search Engine market shares for October there really are not many surprises. Unlike the USA – Yahoo in Australia has never commanded much of the search queries generated whilst Google has been around. Even with the Yahoo7! partnership and limited TV advertising Yahoo receives this has not impacted their search market share […]

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Twitter endorsements to start in Australia

David Correll on October 28, 2010 | Twitter | Comments (0)

Keep an eye out for Celebrity Twitter endorsements to start appearing from Australian celebrities. In the USA particularly big companies such as Microsoft, Sony, American Airlines, Toyota and AT&T are sponsoring celebrity tweets. Basically the companies will pay the celebrities to tweet about their products. Some celebrities have hundreds of thousands or millions of followers […]

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Google Android Overview [INFOGRAPH]

David Correll on October 28, 2010 | Android Google | Comments (0)

In 2010 more handsets with Google Android were sold that any other Operating System handset. Windows 7 is now crowding the market even more and already receiving good reviews. Have a look at this infograph put together by cellphones.org showing an overview of how the Google Android operating system has gone to date. Infograph source: […]

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10 ways not to use your Social Networks

David Correll on October 25, 2010 | Social Media Social Networking | Comments (1)

We often talk about ways and tips to enhance your social media usage – what about stuff we shouldn’t be doing on social networks? Here is a quick list of what you shouldn’t be doing with social media, take note! 1. waiting till you think social media has taken off before you give it a […]

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Microsoft Windows still Dominant as ever

David Correll on October 20, 2010 | Apple Linux Microsoft Windows | Comments (0)

Here is an interesting graph showing the top 5 Operating System market shares. Microsoft Windows still has huge dominance and whilst Apple has received so much hype about their Laptops/Macbooks, this hasn’t actually caused a considerable increase in their market share. Windows 7 is growing very strongly as users replace Windows XP and Vista operating […]

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History of the iPod [INFOGRAPH]

David Correll on October 18, 2010 | Apple iPod | Comments (0)

I recently came across this detailed infograph on the history of the iPod right back from its inception in 2001. This is the device that changed Apple as a company and as of today around 270 million iPods have been sold worldwide. The product has rapidly evolved from a basic music player to a full […]

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Facebook and Skype integrate

David Correll on October 18, 2010 | Facebook Skype | Comments (0)

Facebook and Skype have integrated their products which will now you to view your Facebook news feed and phone book in Skype version 5.0 for Windows. This will allow Skype users to direct call their Facebook friends. If their Facebook friends have Skype accounts then the Skype-to-Skype call is free. Users will also be able […]

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WordPress.org V WordPress.com [INFOGRAPH]

David Correll on October 18, 2010 | WordPress | Comments (0)

Here is a cool infograph showing the difference between WordPress.org (your own self hosted WordPress setup) or WordPress.com (free hosted blog on WordPress.com subdomain). WordPress has to be the most popular blogging software in the world. There is an estimated 150 million blogs worldwide and alot of these would be powered by WordPress. Having a […]

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