Tag: "Twitter"
Merry ‘Social Media’ Christmas
Hello All, I would like to take this opportunity to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Now get your keyboards fired up and start sending those Christmas tweets and status updates. How is social media going to impact your Christmas messages. Instead of email will you use Twitter and Facebook to […]
Read More | ShareTwitter and Tumblr raise VC funding
Twitter and Tumblr have both recently secure additional venture capitalist funding from Silicon Valley VC firms. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has put in around $200 million to Twitter giving the company a valuation of around $3.7 Billion. Spark Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Union Square Ventures have reportedly put in $30 million to Tumblr. This […]
Read More | ShareTwitter endorsements to start in Australia
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 […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media and the New World – how it is changing out lives
Since the inception of Social Media – there has been alot of hype. A new industry, a new market. Full of experts and professionals from day1. Have a look at this infograph on how Social Media is changing our lives with Blogs, Video, Social Networking, Geolocation, Mobile, Forums, Online Communities and so on. Infograph source: […]
Read More | ShareStumbleUpon Launches iPhone and Android Applications
StumbleUpon has launched iPhone and Android Applications so users are now able to ‘stumble’ content for them mobile devices. The application lets you: – Easily explore pages in your favorite topics and on top sites (Flickr, YouTube, Photos, News). – The pages you bookmark from your phone are automatically synced with your StumbleUpon account on […]
Read More | ShareOnly 35% of Australian businesses have a website: MYOB
MYOB has recently conducted some interest research on how Australian businesses working online. Their research has found that only 35% of Australian businesses have a website. Also – only 18% of business owners who were surveyed are using social media (sites such as Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, Twitter) to market their business online. This goes to […]
Read More | ShareApple launches new Social Music Network – Ping
Apple has released a social network based on music, called Ping which is directly built into their iTunes software. Steve Jobs says: ‘It’s for social music discovery. You can follow people and be followed on Ping.’ Jobs familiarised the service to Facebook and Twitter. You can see what your friends are listening to, and you […]
Read More | ShareApple iAD’s live in Australia, incorporating Google ads
Whilst we haven’t heard much from Apple on the iAD advertising platform lately – if you use international applications on your iPhone in Australia you will notice some of then now have iAD’s. I noticed Echofon (Twitter client), has put ads at the top of the screen near the search button – possibly getting people […]
Read More | ShareRicky Ponting happy for players to use Twitter and Facebook
Ricky Ponting said he is happy for players to use social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook while touring England. However the English teams management has banned the use of these social networking sites and have also put clauses in players contracts stipulating the terms. Ponting believes if the players are promoting the game, […]
Read More | ShareTwitter announces the official Tweet Button
Twitter has recently announced the official Tweet buttons with many similar actions to the tweetmeme buttons. These buttons are very cool and very easy to add to any room. Obviously the official Tweet buttons are better than all the other buttons. They use Twitter shortner own and use a URL via @ prefix to indicate […]
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