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Run instant usability studies for your website using your real users. You can get it up & running in seconds with one line of javascript, and immediately watch movies of your users’ browsing sessions to analyze their behavior.
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What’s the next big thing in mobile advertising? Apparently, its not the oft-touted location-based ads, or mobile video, but mobile applications. Charles Henri Prevost, VP of Global Business Development at Phonevalley, the mobile arm of ad giant Publicis, told MobiAd, “Almost every request we get from a brand these days includes a mobile application.”
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According to the research, of the 89% of those who don't use feeds only 17% say they're interested in using them.
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Free icons for iphone development
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The Pew Internet for the American Life Project is out today with a new study (PDF) that reveals that 11% of Americans share or read status updates via a micro-blogging social network service such as Twitter, Facebook or Yammer.
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Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic. Half a second delay killed user satisfaction. This conclusion may be surprising — people notice a half second delay? — but we had a similar experience at Amazon.com. In A/B tests, we tried delaying the page in increments of 100 milliseconds and found that even very small delays would result in substantial and costly drops in revenue.
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Mobile social networking is helping drive mobile web usage into the mainstream in Western Europe, where the number of users accessing social nets with their phones jumped 152 percent from November 2007 to November 2008, according to a new report from digital measurement group ComScore.
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It took roughly 6 months to go from 0 to 10,000 applications, and then less than 2 months to double that.
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FireScope is a Firefox add-on that integrates with Firebug, to extend it with reference material for HTML and CSS.
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Txteagle is making it possible for many people in countries like Kenya to earn small amounts of money by completing simple tasks like translations or transcriptions.
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Nicholas' success story proves that there's still plenty of potential to strike it rich in Apple's seven-month-old App Store. In September, iPhone developer Steve Demeter said he made $250,000 in just two months with his puzzle game Trism. But as the App Store expanded rapidly, many developers thought the store would get too crowded with apps and business would inevitably slow down.
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In Kenya and Turkey, millions of people use phones to send money or access their bank accounts; in Japan, more than 50 million people, or about half of all cell phone users, already carry phones capable of serving as wallets. For many consumers in emerging markets, their first banking transactions will likely be done through cell phones.
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Suggestions for app store improvements
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Mobile Internet will grow dramatically despite economic downturn, consumers say. Nielsen survey of over 50,000 consumers reveals mobile operators’ issues and opportunities. Consumers intend to dramatically increase use of mobile data services over the next two years ― with a significant ramp-up in the next 12 months. The Tellabs-commissioned survey shows that up to 71% of consumers anticipate daily use of services such as mobile Internet.
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Are My Sites Up is a very simple service to help you keep an eye on your sites and warn you if they go down. With our free service, you may check up to 20 sites. Unlimited notifications are sent via email or SMS text message to your cell phone. Site checks are performed 25 times per day.
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Last week Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft announced support for a new link element to clean up duplicate urls on sites.
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Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies
