April 2010
44 posts
CheetahMail releases integrated social media...
Experian CheetahMail’s integrated social media content tools allow clients’ email subscribers to quickly and easily share specific emails on their social media pages and Websites. It also supports the optimization of email creative on mobile and social marketing platforms. Clients can create and post social media content on their Facebook and Twitter pages with enhancements to include other social...
Online shoppers are spending more time reading...
64% of shoppers say they spend at least 10 minutes reading product reviews prior to making a purchase, up from 50% in 2007. 33% of shoppers spend a half hour or more on reviews, up from 18% in 2007.
Online shoppers are spending more time reading reviews before purchases | InternetRetailer.com - Daily News
“Perhaps the word “evil” is a little strong. There’s no doubt...”
– Facebook’s “Evil Interfaces” | Electronic Frontier Foundation
“We don’t want to reduce the reliability and security of our iPhones, iPods and...”
– Steve Jobs, Thoughts on Flash
“A great way for companies to demonstrate great customer experience, instead of...”
– Peter Merholz in the Harvard Business Review
Facebook Social Plugins →
Social plugins enable you to provide engaging social experiences to your users with just a line of HTML. Because they are hosted by Facebook, the plugins are personalized for all users who are logged into Facebook — even if the users haven’t yet signed up for your site.
“The next stop on HootSuite’s roadmap is to offer vanity URL shorteners to people...”
– Hootsuite simplifies Ow.ly URL shortener, plans vanity shorteners | VentureBeat
“Facebook’s burning desire to unite our online selves into a single social...”
– Reasons to Dislike Facebook’s ‘Like’ - CNBC
“The rise in simultaneous use of the web and TV gives the viewer a unique...”
– Nielsen Company media product leader Matt O’Grady in Americans Using TV and Internet Together 35% More Than A Year Ago | Nielsen Wire
via @derekeb
“Older people feel motivated to use ICT [Information and Computer Technology] as...”
– How older people interact and use email in their daily life - dnaindia.com
Bringing Google, Facebook, Twitter Together: Third... →
Is revealing my email address a breach of privacy?... →
UK Election Email Newsletters Rated (Jakob... →
“Averaging is commonly used in systems that rely on a point scale for quality...”
– The Collective Intelligence Genome - The Magazine - MIT Sloan Management Review
sticky, thy name is iPad
iPad is now the 5th most popular mobile device in terms of unique users, trailing only iPhone, iPod Touch, SymbianOS, and Android (in that order) iPad users consume 3X as many videos as web users (up from the 2.5X number that we first reported a few weeks ago) iPad users spend 4X as long watching videos as web users (up from 3X) iPad users consume 5X as many videos as iPhone users (up from...
“We think that over the next few years that the connections between people and...”
– Bret Taylor, F8 Keynote
“Victoria’s Secret gets 25% of their online traffic directly from their...”
– Twitter / Kristin Hersant: Victoria’s Secret gets 25% …
“Levi’s is one of the first major brands to integrate Facebook’s social plugin...”
– Levi’s Integrates Facebook Social Plugins into Online Shop
ICWMC 2010 Call for Papers →
Official Google Blog: Greater transparency around... →
Facebook ‘likes’ the whole Web →
Watch“Twinkle projects animated graphics that respond to patterns, shapes or colours on a surface, or even 3D objects such as your hand. It uses a camera to track relevant elements - say a line drawn on a wall - in the scene illuminated by the projector and an accelerometer ensures it can sense the projector’s rapid motion and position.
Software then matches up the pixels detected by the...
WatchTake a picture, eat some food.
Brings a whole new meaning to “catching your food.” This interactive McDonald’s billboard out of DDB Stockholm invites passersby to shoot the restaurant’s menu items on their mobile phones. Catch one and you get that item for free at the restaurant.
via Creativity Online
Online Coupons that Double as Marketing Databases →
via MarketingVox
“In its first 10 days, Apple’s iPad has captured almost as much online...”
– Computerworld
XAuth: The Open Web Fires a Shot Against Facebook... →
Apple's New Guidelines Won't Stop Wired Magazine...
Apple has long frowned on Adobe Flash, among other third-party plug-ins, so Adobe had developed a sort of workaround. Its newest development tool, Flash CS5, would allow publishers to create an Adobe application then package it like an iPhone or iPad application.
Then earlier this month, Apple came out with guidelines requiring developers to write apps with specific programming languages and...
“The Center for Digital Democracy, U.S. PIRG and World Privacy Forum filed its...”
– Online Marketers’ Targeting Practices Focus of FTC Complaint - Advertising Age
Chirp » The Official Twitter Developer Conference →
Google's URL Shortener also Generates QR Codes →
Adults in Largest European Countries, U.S. and... →
A Harris Interactive / Financial Times Poll
WatchiPad Magazine Art Direction by Craig Mod
“The iPad is mainly an Internet device, and we’re still seeing the Internet the...”
– David Gelernter, professor of computer science at Yale University, in the New York Times
Horizontal Attention Leans Left (Jakob Nielsen's... →
iPad Sales Set to Double Estimates →
LukeW | Video: Rich & Mobile Form Design →
In my Modern Web Form Design presentation at Microsoft’s MIX10 conference I outlined rich interactions that can enhance Web forms and mobile form design considerations.
Dive Into HTML5 by Mark Pilgrim
Dive Into HTML5 seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked Selection of features from the HTML5 specification and other fine Standards. I shall publish Drafts periodically, as time permits. Please send feedback. The final manuscript will be published on paper by O’Reilly, under the Google Press imprint. Pre-order the printed Work and be the first in your Community to receive it. The Work shall remain...
“The iPad does perform tasks — it runs apps and has the calendar, e-mail, Web...”
– Stephen Fry on the iPad Launch: Can Steve Jobs Do It Again? - TIME
South by Southwest Presentations Channel on... →
The unofficial SXSW presentations channel. A place to share and find SXSW presentations.
