Tag: "Facebook"
YouTube facts and figures
YouTube has grown into the largest video sharing and video content site there is today. Have a read over some very interesting facts about the site: 2005 February 2005, the origional founders registered the domain youtube.com April 23, 2005 – first video uploaded to the site May 2005 – beta launch June 2005 – embedding […]
Read More | ShareFacebook iPhone app updated for iOS4
Facebook have today updated their iPhone app so it is compatible with the new iOS4 operating system. As a result you can expect fast app switching using multitasking and support for high resolution icons/graphics. Facebook is the most popular iPhone application to date and a little strange it took them so long to get the […]
Read More | ShareFacebook launches Recruiting Tool for pages
Facebook has launched a new app called Work For Us which enables your Facebook company page to become a recruiting tool – allowing companies to post jobs and receive applications via Facebook. The application went live earlier this year, and has now passed the 1,000 business users Once companies have installed the app, a ‘Work […]
Read More | ShareFoursquare secures $20 million in VC funding
Foursquare has completed their second round of Venture Capitalist funding – securing $20 million mainly from VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. There has been speculation that Facebook or Yahoo was going to purchase funding but this latest move puts that issue to rest. Foursquare now employs 27 people and is close to reaching 1.8 million users […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media and Online Video [STATS]
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Over the past couple years the use of video across the web has exploded. Video used to be a technical and ‘hard to create’ media – but now with an abundance of online tools it is easier than ever for regular internet users to create and watch videos online. Social Media Video statistics to take […]
Read More | ShareAustralians getting more involved in Social Media
Over the past year in Australia users going to social media sites and forums have increase 36.1% over the year. This means that social media usage is overtaking search engines as the most visited web destination by Australians. Facebook has benefited more of our adaption to social media. Facebook accumulated 56.4% of all social networking […]
Read More | ShareGoogle rolling out Facebook competitor – Google Me
There have been several reports around the net that Google is going to be releasing their Facebook competitor soon called ‘Google Me’. Yahoo already has a twitter like service – Yahoo MeMe which sounds a little the same. Kevin Rose the Founder of Digg tweeted the following statement: Ok, umm, huge rumor: Google to launch […]
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[HUGE] Facebook and Twitter Integrate
![[HUGE] Facebook and Twitter Integrate](https://www.socialmedianews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/twitter-facebook-integrate.png)
Twitter has announced that it is bringing major updates to their connections with Facebook and LinkedIn. A new Facebook app has been created – the Twitter app for Facebook. http://apps.facebook.com/twitter/ This allows you to post your Tweets onto your Facebook profile, lets you see which of your Facebook friends are on Twitter – and even […]
Read More | ShareFacebook ready to launch Location Based Services
There has been alot of competition lately location-based services (LBS) market (applications such as Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite) and that has now sparked interested from Facebook Twitter has just launched their own Twitter location features showing they too want to capitalise on this rapidly expanding segment. That moves the whole Twitter service one step close to […]
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