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3 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 […]
Read More | ShareFacebook, 3 Billion ‘Likes’ per day
Facebook is now serving 3 billion ‘Likes’ per day. Helping the cause, Facebook’s social plug-ins are now on around 350,000 sites globally. That figure was about 200,000 almost a month ago and 100,000 in May. The ‘Like’ buttons is part of the main infrastructure behind Facebook’s powerful recommendation engine. They feed into user ad targeting, […]
Read More | ShareMission Australia Facebook Project
Mission Australia recently undertook the ‘1234 Project’ on Facebook. ‘The 1234 Project’ was launched on Facebook on the 11th June, which involved 1234 donating a pair of socks to a homeless person each time a Facebook supporter ‘Liked’ the 1234 Project page. Their target was 12,340 pairs of socks, and this was met with socks […]
Read More | ShareGoogle’s Social Media History
Over the years Google has made many attempts to join the social media realm. Some successful some not. There have been rumors lately that Google is launching a product Google Me which will be a Facebook competitor. Lets look at Google’s history with social media to date: – Feb 17, 2003, Google buys Pyra Labs […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare v Gowalla [FACTS]
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Over the past year there has been lot of talk about Geolocation mobile services Foursquare and Gowalla. There are more players in this space but these 2 hold a majority of the location market. A recent report by RJMetrics compared the services via their API data. Some key facts to note: – Foursquare now has […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Closing Their Virtual Giftshop August 1st
Facebook has decided to close their virtual Giftshop on August 1. The gift shop allowed users to buy Facebook credits which in turn could be Virtual Gifts which were sent to other users. This was one of the first user charging products on Facebook. Whilst the Giftshop will close on August 1, any remaining gifts […]
Read More | ShareNew Geolocation mobile app launched, Loopt
A new social Geolocation mobile app has launched – Loopt. Similar to Gowalla and Foursquare, Loopt is more social in that it lets you chat and interact with users around you. Currently the app is available on the iPhone. To download the App goto: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/loopt/id281952554 The app is also available on the iPad and is […]
Read More | ShareSTATS of the Internet!
We all know the internet is big, and growing by the second. It is estimated that 5 new sites are being created every second. Here is some more info on the modern day internet- Google estimates the internet is now about 5 million terabytes of data (5 billion GB) Google has only indexed .004% of […]
Read More | ShareiOS and Android Developer numbers [STATS]
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There are alot of developers now developing apps for both the iOS and Android operating systems. AppStoreHQ.com put together a survey of all their developers on both the iOS and Android and the stats looking something like this: – 43,185 iOS developers – 10,199 Android developers – 1415 developers building apps on both platforms. Apple […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Applications now tell what Private Data is Shared
Facebook is rolling out a new feature that requires 3rd party applications to inform users exactly what parts of their profiles will be shared to make the applications work. Applications already had to ask for user permission to access anything in their profiles that wasn’t public. But these apps didn’t actually have to specify what […]
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