S2M digital media jobs & recruitment blog

27 Jan 2012

POSTED BY Latest News List From S2M | Jan 27th, 2012

Has Competition Arrived For Apple’s iPad?

By David Jackson. Apple's developers did a good job on the iPhone 4, but soon after the digital gizmo wizard also got into a price war with its competitors in the mobile phone domain - It is now expected to do the same in the tablet segment. The reason? A little competition from Amazon’s Kindle Fire! When it was launched in November last year, the new tablet by Amazon...

26 Jan 2012

POSTED BY Latest News List From S2M | Jan 26th, 2012

Apple’s Earnings Report Out

By David Jackson. The cat is finally out of the bag and as expected Apple made it big. It ended last quarter and the year 2011 with almost $97.6 billion in cash, and much of this is held outside USA (for tax purposes). If we check the sales, revenue of $37.04 million came from...

25 Jan 2012

POSTED BY Latest News List From S2M | Jan 25th, 2012

Kodak Filing For Bankruptcy: End of An Era

By David Jackson. Digital cameras arrived and their popularity surged everywhere – not only high mega pixel cams by likes of Canon and Sony sell like hot cakes but...

24 Jan 2012

POSTED BY Latest News List From S2M | Jan 24th, 2012

More Applications on Facebook

By David Jackson. Facebook may have got a mixed bag of reviews for the Timeline since not many were pleased with the glaring look it gave to their profile – but that does not deter the big daddy of social media from adding new features to the site. This time 60 apps...

23 Jan 2012

POSTED BY Latest News List From S2M | Jan 23rd, 2012

Facebook Now Earns 23 percent more from Advertising

By David Jackson. Advertising reports from 2011 Q4 are finally here and Facebook is making significantly more money per ad now, charging 23 percent more per 1000 impressions than what it charged at the beginning of 2011. Well that is quite obvious, isn’t it? When ads are increasingly getting more...

20 Jan 2012

POSTED BY Latest News List From S2M | Jan 20th, 2012

Changes in Google’s Search Features Irk Twitter

By David Jackson. Google has attracted a lot of criticism for itself since Jan 17th when it added posts, photos, profiles and even conversations from its Google Plus social media network to its search results – a feature that it terms “Search Plus Your...

16 Jan 2012

POSTED BY Latest News List From S2M | Jan 16th, 2012

Use OfficeDrop to Scan documents and Share them on Social Media

By David Jackson. In Melbourne and Sydney, there are a lot of users of OfficeDrop – the online solution that allows people to take all the paper based documents, scan them and then manage, organize and store them in cloud. With an angel funding of $1 million that it...

16 Jan 2012

POSTED BY Latest News List From S2M | Jan 16th, 2012

New ‘Face’ of Social Media in 2012 – Timeline

By David Jackson. If you were a bit annoyed with the privacy issues that surround Facebook’s Timeline here’s the latest from the world of social media king – FB feels that privacy advocates must ‘applaud’ Timeline! It started in New Zealand, and about 2 weeks before the...

14 Jan 2012

POSTED BY Latest News List From S2M | Jan 14th, 2012

Nokia says ‘No’ to Possibilities of Selling Smartphone Business to Microsoft

By David Jackson. Microsoft and Nokia did team to create the new Lumia 710 Windows Phone (though it did not quite give sleepless nights to developers of other brands) but Nokia and Microsoft story did not stop here. There has been...

15 Dec 2011

POSTED BY Latest News List From S2M | Dec 15th, 2011

Owner of Reigning Social Media Gets Exposed

By David Jackson. Security glitch in Facebook has finally given users access to none other than Mark Zuckerberg's private pictures, including a few with his girlfriend. As a social media site, FB has repeatedly come under attack for its constantly changing privacy and security features that at times made private information, including...

14 Dec 2011

POSTED BY Latest News List From S2M | Dec 14th, 2011

Facebook Rolling Out New Timeline

By David Jackson. Facebook has announced that it will start with rollout of Timeline but it will not be the Facebook users of Sydney,Melbourne and other Australian cities who get the first glimpse of it – the feature will be rolled out for Australia’s neighbour New Zealand before anyone else! NZ is...

13 Dec 2011

POSTED BY Latest News List From S2M | Dec 13th, 2011

Gowalla Added to the List of Developers for Facebook

By David Jackson. Zynga may feel a bit jealous– Facebook gets another developer (though not from the gaming domain) that will solely work for it! This time the social media giant has taken over Gowalla. The mobile application firm has been finally acquired for an undisclosed amount though the talks...

08 Dec 2011

POSTED BY Latest News List From S2M | Dec 8th, 2011

Lots of Deals For Digital Shopping

By David Jackson. Come December and the holiday shopping begins in all cities of Australia. The shoppers in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Hobart and other Australian cities are flocking malls and shopping complexes to get the best deals. But that is not all. A big chunk of shoppers now use their...

07 Dec 2011

POSTED BY Latest News List From S2M | Dec 7th, 2011

Competition Between Social Media Sites Still On

By David Jackson. A new war between Facebook and Google Plus was already ignited with the birth of Google’s social media platform and we saw several forms of attacks between the two. Facebook began by blocking Google Plus invite links on the walls of its users. Google Plus ignored the offence but continued to work...

06 Dec 2011

POSTED BY Latest News List From S2M | Dec 6th, 2011

Zynga Starts New Game on Social Media Platform

By David Jackson. We did mention before that Zynga is now not the only gaming developer for Facebook. Saga games by King.com did generate more than 600 million gameplays on the social media giant and of course Rovio’s Angry Birds is already a hit. So is Zynga feeling a little insecure with just...

01 Dec 2011

POSTED BY Latest News List From S2M | Dec 1st, 2011

E-Shoppers Flock to Social Media Giant

By David Jackson. The digital shopping stores in Melbourne,Sydney,Canberra,Perth and other Australian cities should focus a little more on personalising their sites using Facebook data. A recent survey reveals that half of E-shopaholics spend a lot of time on FB. Through Facebook social plug-ins and connect integrations, online stores can leverage...

30 Nov 2011

POSTED BY Latest News List From S2M | Nov 30th, 2011

Facebook is the Digital Platform that Keeps Us Closer Than Six Degrees

By David Jackson. If Facebook is becoming more interested in marketing and advertising, it has all the reasons to do so. After all it is also proving to be a ‘great service’ – a digital platform that keeps people always connected to family and friends. As per a new study by the company’s data team and the University of...

29 Nov 2011

POSTED BY Latest News List From S2M | Nov 29th, 2011

Google’s Social Media Site Going on Lines of Twitter

By David Jackson. Google has quietly added a trending topics section to Google Plus and this now shows up when you perform a search on the social media site. Quite like Twitter’s Trending Topics, the latest Google Plus feature arranges its trends by lists — ten of the latest and most popular discussed items on the platform. Users...

24 Nov 2011

POSTED BY Latest News List From S2M | Nov 24th, 2011

Ruby on Rails Developer – $100,000 package!

24/11/2011I.T. & TMelbourneSweet gig working for an established organisation based in...