links for 2008-12-16
December 16th, 2008 | Published in Bookmarks
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Rubicon Consulting has surveyed iPhone users, and found that half of iPhone users are shifting away from using a laptop computer. 28% said they "strongly agree" with that statement.
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"browser-based content is now accessed by more people using a mobile phone than using a PC on the planet. There are 1.02 billion people who access the internet on a mobile phone versus 950 million personal computers connected to the internet."
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YQL is a SQL-style language to get information from all kind of web services…What about screenscraping? You can get data from any valid HTML document using XPATH with select * from html.
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You have to watch the video for this one. The ad really is innovative.
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Simple text file similar to robots.txt used to point search engines (and hopefully browsers) to the correct versions of sites (e.g., mobile vs. pc)
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Back when I used to do a lot of design, I would have devoured these. So pretty.
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Not really an iPhone App, but I'm happy to have some place to point people who ask what happened to the Obama app.
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Great MMS personalized advertising campaign that turned ~$60k into $45 million in revenue
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Inside each letter are open circles where no ink is used. When used in a 9 - 11 point size, the font doesn't stand out as different, but if used in larger point sizes, the circles become obvious. For the occasional printed page though, the font works as well as any other and the company claims that it uses 20 percent less ink.
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Innovative advertising campaign that uses 3d barcodes and the phone camera to overlay art, graffiti, and 3d images of cars on physical spaces.
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A detailed look at the marketing and revenue of an iPhone application. Speaks to the App Store's marketing mix.
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Gold rush stories
