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Twitter to put Photos and Videos in your stream

There has been no official statements from Twitter, but they have been conducting tests on some user accounts where Videos and Pictures can be added into a users stream. No doubt Twitter will make a decision soon if the way this as a permanent part of their product. Personally, I don’t think they should. In […]

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Mobile Search Market Share, July 2010 [STATS]

David Correll on July 30, 2010 | Mobile Search | Comments (0)

Pingdom.com has recently conducted a random study of mobile users and their searching behaviour. Google currently has 98.29% market share in mobile search. The shares by Yahoo and Bing in comparison are minimal. Apple devices are probably contributing to around half the Google traffic being generated. Here is the graph from Pingdom. Bing and Yahoo […]

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iPhone 4 plans for Australia

David Correll on July 29, 2010 | 3 Mobile iPhone Optus Telstra Vodafone | Comments (1)

Optus, Telstra, Three and Vodafone have all released their iPhone 4 pricing for the phones launch tomorrow, Friday 30 July. Firstly all carriers will be offering free bumper cases to alleviate the antenna/reception issue experienced by other users around the world. The iPhone 4 will make use of all the existing 3G data networks, nationally. […]

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Mitsubishi Australia goes Social and Viral

David Correll on July 28, 2010 | Advertising Australia social media campaign | Comments (0)

Mitsubishi Motors is promoting a new web advertising campaign. Here is the statement we received from Mitsubishi Australia: This morning thousand and thousands of Australians will receive the news that the ASX has crashed. The ASX, for those who don’t know, stands not only for the Australian Stock Exchange, but also the Active Smart X-over, […]

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Bing Webmaster Tools revamped

David Correll on July 27, 2010 | Bing | Comments (0)

Microsoft’s Bing has revamped their webmaster tools and are now available for site owners to use. A couple new features include; Index Explorer: Allows you to browse through the Bing index in order to see which of your directories and pages have been included. Submit URLs: Lets you to tell Bing which URLs should be […]

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North Ryde Tweet-up, August 4 [EVENT SYDNEY]

David Correll on July 27, 2010 | Business Social Media Events Sydney | Comments (0)

Hi All, Just to let you know Vivienne Storey has arranged another Tweet-up for the North Ryde (and north shore) folks. Details are: Wednesday August 4, from 7:30am Silverchair Cafe, 80 Waterloo Road, North Ryde To RSVP goto the following link: http://www.meetup.com/northrydecoffeemorning/ The North Ryde Tweet-up events are great for business people wanting to learn […]

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MySpace plans Relaunch to Boost user Involvement and Numbers

David Correll on July 27, 2010 | MySpace | Comments (0)

MySpace for a long time was Australia’s most popular social networking site, and still today is a prominent figure in the space. However in mid-2008 Facebook overtook MySpace as the No1 social networking site and has grown by a huge amount since then. Facebook now attracts around 8.7 million unique users in Australia compared to […]

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Cadbury Australia launches ‘Freida Smooth Moves’ Facebook game

David Correll on July 26, 2010 | Australia Facebook | Comments (0)

As brands are constantly looking to increase their social media footprint there is an ever growing need to distinguish themselves from the competition. Cadbury Australia has taken on the challenge with aplomb and recently launched a Guitar hero-like Facebook game which replaces the axe-wielding likes of Led Zeppelin with a tap dancing cow and a […]

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SMCSYD, Social Personas, August 10, [EVENT, SYDNEY]

David Correll on July 26, 2010 | Australia Social Media Events Sydney | Comments (0)

The Social Media Club Sydney (SMCSYD) is holding an event on August 10 @ The Ivy on George St starting at 6:30pm. Topic to be discussed: Social Personas: How different is the social media you from the real you? Speakers include: Bernard Salt (KPMG) Dr. Rebecca Huntley Tiphereth Gloria The event is sponsored by Carlton […]

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