Industry News

Facebook Engaging Aussies in Advertising

30. June 2009

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!We have for a long time at our agency wanted to have as many of our clients advertising on Facebook, especially if their target market is spending the majority of their time inside the social network. However, due to [...]

YouTube Makes It Easier to Interact

23. April 2009

0 Comments

How are you sharing YouTube videos you watch at the moment? Myself, I share via email, instant chat with whoever is online, or if its something my Twitter network would be interested in, I shorten the URL and away I go. TechCrunch reports that they have tried out a new feature being rolled out, that [...]

Newspapers Just Can’t Keep Up Anymore

31. March 2009

0 Comments

Yesterday was an interesting day for Sydney. In the late afternoon, from about (4-5pm) my Twitter account started going crazy with updates. Unbeknownst to myself at the time, on the other side of the Harbour Bridge, a massive blackout had occured across some of Sydney’s CBD. Hash tags were in every second tweet from my [...]

Another Twitter Talks Monetisation Blog Post

14. February 2009

0 Comments

Its the same old story. Every second week, someone makes a comment how Twitter needs to make money to survive. And then every blogger and online marketer chimes in and gives his two cents worth. Its mentioned that they should Twitter should charge for commercial accounts or maybe Twitter use affliate marketing or maybe anyone [...]

YouTube Finds a New Revenue Stream

13. February 2009

0 Comments

What’s the biggest issue when dealing with social websites and networks? Getting them to turn a profit. So now Youtube has done some thinking and come up with a way to generate income without turning it into a mess of advertising banners. They go down the same road as other information sources have already tried and tested: [...]

Facebook Up To No Good Again

3. February 2009

0 Comments

So what do you do when you have a database with 150 million users, and multi-million dollar corporations knocking at your door to access the data? Well you decide the best way to take advantage of it, would you not? Well ReadWriteWeb and The Telegraph UK report that Facebook is planning to launch in around spring [...]

Flickr launches videos for pro accounts

9. April 2008

0 Comments

A post on the official Flickr blog today announced the launch a new feature offering the ability to include short video clips in your sets. The blog post explains that the feature is available to pro members only currently, and that clips are to be limited to 90 seconds. The had this to say regarding [...]

Hot Trends Launched by Google

28. May 2007

0 Comments

Hot Trends is a new feature out of Google Labs that shows the top 100 topics that people are searching for in great numbers. The list is updated in almost real time so you can keep right on the pulse.

Valleywag’s Hottest Web2.0 Startups Chart

17. May 2007

0 Comments

Valleywag has compiled a pie chart of the Hottest Startup companies of today. The chart is compiled based on data gathered from threads running on LinkedIn and VentureBeat and tends to be aimed simply at people’s opinions rather than actual traffic, membership stats or revenue, etc. Still from a social point of view [...]

del.icio.us bookmarks extension for Firefox updated

10. April 2007

0 Comments

The del.icio.us blog has announced the launch of an updated Firefox extension including improvements such as; Searching and browsing your bookmarks from directly within your Firefox browser Edit your bookmarks within Firefox Define which tags to display in the Firefox toolbar More information on the extension can be found here.