10 Reasons Why Facebook wont Enter the Search Market
Facebook is very close to hitting 500 million users worldwide – 500 million users who spent a lot of time on the site. Many people are questing if Facebook could become a viable search engine with the mass following they currently have. Getting people to come to Facebook and making it their default place for […]
Read More | ShareAustralian Businesses Using Social Media to gain new Customers and Clients
Social networking has proven its success around the world in being a useful marketing tool for businesses and organisations. Australian internet users are also some of the highest users of social meida – we actually top the ranks globally in time spent on social media sites at around 8 hours per month for an average […]
Read More | ShareTwitVid launched SocialAds, buy Followers and Retweets
Twitter Video hosting service, TwitVid, has recently created and launched a new advertising platform called SocialAds. The purpose of this new advertising platform with SocialAds is rather straightforward – to get the advertiser more Twitter followers of your Twitter account and also more retweets of your content. The service is initially being aimed and brands […]
Read More | ShareUser Donations helping Reddit
Social Bookmarking Service, Reddit, has been in a spot of financial troubles lately and they asked their users if they could support the site with contributions. This has been a success with Reddit after about 6000 members donated to their cause. The donations will goto employing new staff and keeping the service reliable and online. […]
Read More | ShareFacebook increasing Child Safety with Panic Button
Facebook has agreed to implement a panic button to improve the online safety of its younger users. The button will only be available in the UK to start with but is expected to roll out globally over time – it would be smart to. Kids just have to install the following application, http://apps.facebook.com/clickceop/ Child Exploitation […]
Read More | ShareDigital Citizens: Crisis and reputation management, Social Media Event Sydney
Digital Citizens are holding Digicitz 5 next Tuesday, 20/07/2010 from 6:30pm. The theme of the event is: Crisis and reputation management: How to deal when the web gets antisocial Tickets are $10 each + a $1.50 booking free. To register goto: http://digicitz5.eventbrite.com For more information on Digicitz visit their site http://digital-citizens.org Speakers include: Matthew Gain, […]
Read More | ShareTweetDeck Hits 15 Million Downloads
TweetDeck is the most popular 3rd party Twitter client and yesterday celebrated 15 million downloads of their desktop software. This makes them 5 times more popular than their closest rival. Their iPhone application has also been downloaded 2.5 million times. TweetDeck has said their software generates four million tweets, status updates and buzz posts per […]
Read More | ShareeBay to use Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Environment
eBay is the largest online shopping site in the world with 200 million listings globally at any one time. eBay is used to solving complex scaling problems but they are now looking for the most effective computing infrastructure that allows automatic scaling of their computing / hosting requirements. As a result eBay is going to […]
Read More | ShareNextstop Location service acquired by Facebook
Nexstop, a mobile location service has announced they have been acquired by Facebook. NextStop is a service that lets users create and browse through local guides and recommendations. Facebook is going to be shutting down Nextstop on September 1. Users are encouraged now to export their data. So why is Facebook acquiring this company? Facebook […]
Read More | Share3 Mobile gives free access to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare
Similar to other telco’s – 3 Mobile has announced customers on post-paid cap plans will now get free mobile internet access to social networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn and Foursquare. Due to the popularity of social networking sites 3 is making this offer available with no time limits or data limits – you […]
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