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April 21, 2012
 

Infographic: Livehoods Maps Cities According To Foursquare

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Currently Livehoods is only available for a few US based cities - however jump over to Facebook to vote your city up. Go Sydney!

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Re-Imagining the City in the Age of Social Media
Livehoods offer a new way to conceptualize the dynamics, structure, and character of a city by analyzing the social media its residents generate. By looking at people's checkin patterns at places across the city, we create a mapping of the different dynamic areas that comprise it. Each Livehood tells a different story of the people and places that shape it.

Using data such as tweets and check-ins, we are able to discover the hidden structures of the city with machine learning. Our techniques reveal a snap-shot of the dynamic areas the comprise the city, which we call Livehoods.

http://livehoods.org/

@livehoods

  
Filed under  //   data   infographics   mobile   social  
Posted by Mark Cracknell 
April 18, 2012
 

Google: Our Mobile Planet Tool

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The data may be a litle old but non-the-less it's still a good tool for researching some impressive stats and comparisions.
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The Mobile Planet provides insights into smartphone usage and mobile attitudes. Use it to create custom charts that will deepen your understanding of the mobile consumer and support data driven decisions in your mobile strategy.

  
Filed under  //   data   google   mobile   mobile commerce  
Posted by Mark Cracknell 
April 11, 2012
 

Hype: From Zero to $1 Billion in 17 Months - Infographic

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Designers at Visually have compiled this infographic that documents the startup’s journey from photo app to $1 billion startup using, appropriately, Instagram photos.

Via Mashable

  
Filed under  //   Hype   infographic   mobile   social  
Posted by Mark Cracknell 
March 8, 2012
 

Mobilizer - Mobile Preview Desktop App

Great tool for testing Preview mobile websites, design mockups, and local HTML on Mac or PC.
http://www.springbox.com/mobilizer/

 
Filed under  //   iphone application design   iphone development   mobile   mobile UX   mobile development   mobile optimised website  
Posted by Mark Cracknell 
December 29, 2011
 

Incredible Things That Happen Every 60 Seconds

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Just one example of the mind boggling scale of online activity...
In a single minute there are over 695,000 status updates on Facebook. 

Via: Business Insider

 
Filed under  //   culture   design   found   infographics   mobile   social   social media  
Posted by Mark Cracknell 
December 7, 2011
 

Android Market reaches 10 billionth app download

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Interesting stats from BI - Android with over 600 devices in the market globally is definitely picking up momentum with consumers through choice. However the article notes that both app stores are growing at around the same rate.

Via: Business Insider
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This morning, Google announced that the Android Market had passed its 10 billionth app download.
Apple got there first -- it passed 10 billion in January.

It also got there faster, hitting 10 billion about 30 months after its launch in July 2008. Android launched in October 2008, so took about 38 months to reach the 10 billion mark.

However, Google also announced it is now at a billion downloads per month. Apple hit that mark in July of this year. So both stores hit that magic number about three years after launch. And both are now growing at around the same rate.

One more note: this doesn't measure the total number of apps downloaded because there are multiple app stores for Android. There's only one for Apple.

  
Filed under  //   UI design   UX design   android   android app design   iPad development   ipad app design   iphone app design   iphone development   mobile   mobile UX  
Posted by Mark Cracknell 
November 10, 2011
 

The Mobile Blue Ocean

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Via Business Insider
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ComScore has data out on the US phone market and Asymco breaks them down, including this great chart at right on the evolution of the US phone platform install base.

It highlights a few key points, some of which are already known, but some of which don't get talked about enough:

  • The Blue Ocean is still HUGE. For all that we (justifiably, more on which below) talk about who among Apple, Google, RIM, Microsoft et al. is winning in smartphones, the biggest opportunity remains the Blue Ocean of getting smartphones in the hands of non-smartphone users. (This is true of the US, but also very true of developing markets where the shift to mobile is enormous.)

Read more:
http://read.bi/vuyMAo

  
Filed under  //   UI design   UX design   android   android app design   iPad development   ipad app design   iphone app design   iphone development   mobile   mobile UX  
Posted by Mark Cracknell 
November 2, 2011
 

Microsoft Productivity Future Vision

Fluff - Did somebody watch Minority Report on the weekend and then decide to put together 'The Future'. 

Take outs
  • Apparently everything is going to be white, blue and green. 
  • Helvetica dominates after the Great Font War of 2015. 
  • Good to see Internet Explorer was no where in sight.

  
Filed under  //   UX design   data   design   found   hype   mobile   mobile ux  
Posted by Mark Cracknell 
November 1, 2011
 

Where Are Subscribers Opening Email?

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If you haven't seen or used Litmus before I suggest you do. It provides a great testing platform for EDM campaigns.

This recent blog post shows some recent stats from the Litmus Email Stats on how email habits are changing.

Take outs:
  • Mobile is increasing at the cost of webmail
  • Mobile device opens has increased 150% in the last six months
  • Webmail = usual suspects Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo

  
Filed under  //   UI design   UX design   campaigns   design   edm campaigns   found   mobile   mobile UX   newsletter marketing  
Posted by Mark Cracknell 
October 24, 2011
 

Understanding Mobile Users

Some interesting information from via thinkinsights with Google:
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Mobile has finally delivered on its promise and it’s transforming our lives in almost every way; connecting our physical and digital worlds. But 79% of large online advertisers do not have a mobile optimized website. This makes is very hard for mobile users to find what they’re looking for--quickly and easily. Watch this video and learn five trends we’re seeing in mobile. As marketers, you’ll need to take action, so stay with us through the end and takeaway several steps to get started.

Why is going mobile important?
  • 85% of mobile devices will be web enabled by next year.
  • Mobile search has grown 4x in the past year.
  • 1 in 3 mobile searches have local intent.
  • 30% of restaurant searches are from mobile devices.

  
Filed under  //   android   android app design   android app development   google   iPhone   iphone app design   iphone application design   iphone development   mcommerce   mobile   mobile UX   mobile optimised website   mobile payments   trends  
Posted by Mark Cracknell 
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