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GUEST INTERVIEW: Victor Lee is the CEO and Co-Founder of Communiteer, the crowdsourcing platform that connects, engages and mobilises volunteers to tackle the world’s greatest challenges through virtual volunteering.

GUEST INTERVIEW: Victor Lee is the CEO and Co-Founder of Communiteer, the crowdsourcing platform that connects, engages and mobilises volunteers to tackle the world’s greatest challenges through virtual volunteering.

A Brisbane pizza store is claiming a new Australian record for fast food, by consistently delivering freshly made pizzas to customer’s houses in less than six minutes for an entire week, with the support of “world-first software” that gives its pizza chefs a head start.

Google has advanced the date for shutting down its Google+ social network from August 2019 to April 2019, after discovering another bug that leaked the data of some 52.5 million users.

San Francisco-based private social network for neighbourhoods, Nextdoor, has launched in Australia, with the establishment of its Asia Pacific headquarters in Sydney as part of an expansion into the region.

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, will shut down the Google+ social network after confirming on Monday that data from up to half a million user accounts may have leaked due to a bug in the system.

Social sharing network Pinterest is claiming more than 250 million users a month are now sharing their images and videos, with 80% of new sign-ups coming from outside the US market.

Australia’s Department of Defence has worked with Deloitte Digital and Sitecore to create its own secure social network and secure e-Portal: ForceNet.

Ello bills itself as a ‘revolutionary social network’ that’s ad-free and ‘never’ sells user-data, and now it has relaunched as a V2 beta.

Social media giant Facebook has declared it's close to finalising end-to-end encryption across the network, in a bid to prevent government snooping across the globe.

Millions of users were locked out of Facebook on Wednesday morning, after an "internal issue" caused the social networking giant to crash temporarily.

Mobile carriers have made a big deal about offering unmetered access to social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, but that seems to be going the way of the 'unlimited' downloads offered by Optus when it launched its Optus@Home cable internet service.

Internode has added NodeMobile mobile phone plans to its product roster, offering a generous amount of social media specific data.

Channel Seven sourced images of a grieving family from Facebook as part of a report into the sentencing of a convicted murderer.  A complaint regarding the use of these images was dismissed by the ACMA.

Search giant Google is ready to lift the curtain on its 90-day-trialled social network, Google+, allowing all gmail and non-gmail users to subscribe, but limiting one of its most interesting applications to Android users only.

A new and initially photo-based social network service called Path goes against the practice of amassing hundreds or thousands of 'friends' by limiting each participants' links to just 50.

Too many people are finding, to their cost, that the things they said on social network sites come back to haunt them later in life.  It's bad enough when such things are self-inflicted, but there is a growing tide of Status Jacking, whereby login credentials are stolen or hacked and fake or malicious messages are posted.

Public broadcaster SBS will launch a social networking site for Chinese speakers by the end of the year. Intended as a pilot service, the company hopes to follow with other language sites in the future as it seeks to offer a venue for more foreign language content and community information.

Will there end up being a big stink over Apple's attempt to create a social music network inside of iTunes, or will Ping bring Apple the social networking buzz Google craves but can't get?