January 2010
Having an iPhone app doesn't mean instant usage or...
The average iPhone or iPod Touch owner uses 5 to 10 apps regularly via nytimes.com “The top apps featured at the store do change out,” Mr. Putney said. “But most users will never see more than 1 percent of the total apps available.” A study last year by Pinch Media found that most people stop using their applications pretty quickly, particularly if those apps are free. And three out of every...
“Behavior generated content is a special type of user generated content. By...”
– The Rise of Behavior Generated Content
Redefining What Makes A Campaign Viral - PSFK
The challenge for brands (and their agencies) becomes creating services, experiences, products and content that consumers will take a personal stake in sharing because it helps them express their own personalities, identities and values via social connections. And not just to make consumers carriers of our taglines and brand propositions. via psfk.com...
A story you dugg has become popular!
New ‘social’ feature from digg… The story you Dugg, Frantic_Steve_Jobs_Stays_Up_All_Night_Designing_Apple_Tablet, has become popular, and your Digg helped it get there. See who else dugg and commented on this story by clicking on the story title. Thanks! Posted via email from dianas’s posterous | Comment »
Future of Online Experiences will be about CARS
Customized by the end user. Consumers will not only control what they get online, they’ll control the form that they get it in to a much greater degree than they do today.
Aggregated at the point of use. Content, function, and data will be pulled from different sources and combined at a common destination to create a unique experience.
Relevant to the moment. This ...
Syber News » Adobe: Flash Apps Will Run On The...
via news.syberplanet.net Read along with http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/ and http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2010/01/building_ipad_apps.html Posted via web from dianas’s posterous | Comment »
Opera: State of the Mobile Web, December 2009
Twitter was the other big winner in terms of growth in 2009. All of the listed social networking sites, except for Friendster, showed significant user growth (via Opera Mini) in 2009. via opera.com Posted via web from dianas’s posterous | Comment »
The Hierarchy Of Digital Distractions |...
via informationisbeautiful.net http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-hierarchy-of-digital-distractions/ Posted via web from dianas’s posterous | Comment »
When's the Best Time to Tweet?
via flickr.com Posted via web from dianas’s posterous | Comment »
What the Web of Tomorrow Will Look Like: 4 Big...
via mashable.com 1. The Web Will Be Accessible Anywhere 2. Web Access Will Not Focus Around the Computer 3. The Web Will Be Media-Centric 4. Social Media Will Be Its Largest Component http://mashable.com/2010/01/24/internet-of-tomorrow-column/# Posted via web from dianas’s posterous | Comment »
A Decade in Search: Highlights from 2000-2009 in...
via razorfish.com http://www.razorfish.com/a-decade-in-search/ Posted via web from dianas’s posterous | Comment »
Light Touch - instantly turns any flat surface...
via lightblueoptics.com looking forward to trying it out Posted via web from dianas’s posterous | Comment »
“one of the key points about Internet of Things early in IBM’s...”
– IBM CEO on Lessons & Opportunities in Internet of Things
“Traffic analyst firm Hitwise provided one very clear clue tonight when it...”
– Why is Google Afraid of Facebook? Because Social Networking Could Soon Pass Search
Sketching in Hardware is Changing Your Life, by...
via core77.com Favourite quote: According to Lawrence Lessig, Stanford professor and a founding board member of the Creative Commons, Technology is responsible for bringing us back from a Read Only (RO) culture to a Read-Write (RW) one. RO and RW are computer terms that describe how discs can either be read or if they can also support being rewritten. Human beings have been RW during most of our...
Getting A Handle On The Size Of The Realtime Web...
via techcrunch.com betaworks CEO John Borthwick notes that about 50 percent of Twitter API calls are outside Twitter.com. Goes on to say, the ecosystem is twice as large as Twitter.com itself. And it is growing, as opposed to the flat trend Twitter.com by itself is showing in the U.S. Posted via web from dianas’s posterous | Comment »
just tried Seesmic Look - the design is amazing!
via seesmic.com http://seesmic.com/seesmic_desktop/look/ Posted via web from dianas’s posterous | Comment »
Apple’s Secret Cloud Strategy And Why Lala Is...
An upcoming major revision of iTunes will copy each user’s catalog to the net making it available from any browser or net connected ipod/touch/tablet. via techcrunch.com Finally!!!! Posted via web from dianas’s posterous | Comment »
“The Future of Search is More than Social”
– the future of search is more than social - Future Trends - Baekdal.com
“• The shift to digital technologies by both consumers and marketers is now...”
– http://www.steverubel.com/ten-ideas-for-the-new-decade-an-edelman-digit
“Opera says that the acquisition of AdMarvel will enable it to expand its...”
– Syber News » Opera Buys Mobile Ad Startup AdMarvel For $8M In Cash Plus A $15M Earnout
Semantics Incorporated: The Next Web to Be...
the creation of a web that would automatically wrap around us and serve us based on the actual characteristics and needs of our lives. “This book describes the pull era, where customers pull everything to them on demand – products, services, information, knowledge, and advice. Much of the foundation for pulling is called the semantic web, a new way of packaging information to make it...
russell davies: meet the new schtick
The point I’m groping towards is that as objects informationalise communication channels are getting built in. And there are ways of doing this that are mass, cheap and easy. Printing. Paper. Ink. RFID. And cleverer phones will be the perfect things to interact with these clever objects. via russelldavies.typepad.com Excellent post on the pervasive nature of digital - coming to you,...
Russell Davies: Products As Communications...
via psfk.com Davies’ believes that the ultimate challenge … is to figure out how to communicate with consumers when products become the medium of choice… The web-based challenges that the industry is still mulling over will soon become questions of how to build a business and communications model around products with a built-in communications channel. Posted via web from...
louisgray.com: Synaptic Web: Realtime is Just the...
Synaptic Web: Realtime is Just the Beginning via blog.louisgray.com The Synaptic Web is …a simple observation that the most interesting aspect of the Internet generally and the Web specifically is not the nodes on the network, but the type, density and flexibility of the connection between them. Our premise is that while most have observed the changes in the nodes, the more interesting...
Google and Amazon launch UK Android music store -...
Amazon MP3, which allows Google Android users to download music straight on to their device, has launched a UK version of their iTunes challenger via telegraph.co.uk mobile definitely results in interesting partnerships Posted via web from dianas’s posterous | Comment »
The app explosion - Wired
Then there is the mobile browser itself. Mozilla is betting hard that the emerging HTML5 open-source standard will overtake all the app stores as the developer’s platform of choice. “Look at Apple bragging about having 100,000 apps,” says Jay Sullivan, vice-president of mobile at Mozilla. “But how many websites and blogs are there? Is any proprietary closed system going to be able to spur the...
“Matt Jones, Dopplr, is frustrated with the disembodied way that we engage with...”
– @ PSFK’s Good Ideas Salon: What are the hot ideas in mobile? | Media | guardian.co.uk
Expedia boss sets sights on Europe -...
Expedia chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi has told a US technology conference that the business is only at “the very, very early stages” of its development in Europe. When asked whether Expedia could compete against Priceline Inc’s booking.com, Khosrowshahi said that the market in Europe was “huge”. via travolution.co.uk One to watch… given one of our USPs is a...
RCA creating Wi-Fi-powered gadget charger | CES...
At CES 2010, RCA was showing a prototype of a handheld energy-harvesting battery designed to convert energy transmitted in a Wi-Fi signal into DC powe via ces.cnet.com Add this one to the (before) Christmas list… Posted via web from dianas’s posterous | Comment »
Syber News » iPhone Doubles Up Android On Mobile...
via news.syberplanet.net http://news.syberplanet.net/iphone-doubles-up-android-on-mobile-ad-click-rates-both-destroyed-by-symbian/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email Posted via web from dianas’s posterous | Comment »
FT.com / Technology - New life for global sales of...
The personal computing sector came roaring back in the fourth quarter of 2009, with the number of machines shipped globally jumping by as much as 22 per cent for the biggest yearly gain in seven years. via ft.com Biggest sales driver continued to be less expensive portable machines, including netbooks, which have smaller screens and less processing power than traditional laptops Posted...
E-tailers strive to maintain momentum - and look...
And this growth looks set to continue, with most big retailers predicting that online sales will account for between 30 and 50 per cent of total sales over the next two to three years, while some companies such as Argos are already seeing 40 per cent of their sales coming via the web. It is also believed that more than 90 per cent of sales research will be done using either the internet...
Harnessing Active Brand Advocates - eMarketer
The most common word-of-mouth activity reported by respondents was helping a friend or family member with a purchase decision, but more than two-fifths also said they had shared advice offline about information they learned on the Web via emarketer.com http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007458 Posted via web from dianas’s posterous | Comment »
Gesture Design At Nokia: Developing A New Dialect...
via psfk.com Posted via web from dianas’s posterous | Comment »
HTML5 Canvas and Audio Experiment
Checking out 9elements.com Nice design! Posted via web from dianas’s posterous | Comment »
Rhetoric 2.0; the art of speaking in social media...
via superbrands.nu The Superbrands blog - About successful branding The three pillars of communication on the internet: The tone of the communication is crucial, as well as the relevancy of the content and the value of the offer. List of some questions that are important to consider: 1. Does the offering deliver value? 2. Is the offering being relevant? 3. Is the offering speaking with my...
Will Recommendation Apps be the New iPhone App...
Will Recommendation Apps be the New iPhone App Hotness? via readwriteweb.com http://www.readwriteweb.com/readwritestart/2010/01/recommendation-apps.php Posted via web from dianas’s posterous | Comment »
Pinboard - One to watch, sounds bad... I just wish...
Pinboard is a bookmarking site and personal archive with an emphasis on speed over socializing. This is the Pinboard developer blog, where we announce features and share news. via pinboard.in Adding this one to my… some day soon… list Posted via web from dianas’s posterous | Comment »
Mobile Trends for the Next Decade
via mobhappy.com Checking out http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2010/01/11/mobile-trends-for-the-next-decade/ Posted via web from dianas’s posterous | Comment »
Foursquare Now Seeing A Check-In Each Second
via news.syberplanet.net Very exciting news - including the move to global. http://news.syberplanet.net/foursquare-now-seeing-a-check-in-each-second Posted via web from dianas’s posterous | Comment »
Google Near Me Now - great for mobile, highlights...
via technologyexpert.blogspot.com Tech-Ex: What’s “Near Me Now?” Google Knows http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com/2010/01/whats-near-me-now-google-knows.html Posted via web from dianas’s posterous | Comment »
Ford rolls out 'tweets' for the connected car -...
via news.yahoo.com Maybe I’ll need to start driving again…. Ford is going to let you listen to your “tweets” and Internet music and news stations while behind the wheel, as the number two US automaker expands what it calls “in-car connectivity.” Posted via web from dianas’s posterous | Comment »
The Age of Media Agnosticism - The Steve Rubel...
via steverubel.com Nice one pager describing how people use media. Favourite quotes… The upshot of all of this is we are entering new era of media agnosticism. Faced with infinite choices, powerful search tools and equally helpful friends, we’re adapting our habits and becoming less loyal to general sources than we once were. Many rely on the news to find us rather than our needing...
Rubel - The Age of Media Agnosticism
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Two tables that put the mobile Internet in... →
WatchSocial Media Count http://www.personalizemedia.com/garys-social-media-count/
HootSuite Raises $1.9 Million For Popular Twitter...
via paidcontent.org Congratulations to HootSuite! One of my favourite Twitter clients / sites! Posted via web from dianas’s posterous | Comment »