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Happy Holidays from the Nest! Why Ads Grab You More on Facebook Than on TV or the Web. Gamification improves user engagement, employee productivity and customer loyalty. Trends Web-Design/Applications. Roger's Online Equation Editor. Back to Roger's Main Page Roger's Online Equation Editor This page produces high quality typeset images of equations from LaTeX equations.

Roger's Online Equation Editor

These images can be used on web pages or in other documents. This page is a PHP implementation of the tex2im bash script created by Andreas Reigber. If you have questions or problems with this page please email me. The "transparent background" option is particularly useful for the web. You do NOT need to include either the $... $ tags (for math environment) or \begin{equation} ... Note about the "|" character: To use the "|" character in an equation, use the command "\vbar", otherwise using mutiple instances of "|" can cause a server error. Link to Image Clear Entry Writing Equations in LaTeX Note: Using "transparent background" and "anti-alias" at the same time can produce poor quality image edges.

Buzz practices. Avec Tesco, les courses : c’est dans le métro.

Buzz practices

Comment passer d’une position de challenger à celle de leader ? La chaîne d’épicerie britannique Tesco a trouvé la solution : agrandir sa cible, et s’attaquer au marché coréen. Pour atteindre cet objectif : un brin d’ingéniosité, un soupçon de folie, et beaucoup d’originalité, étaient de mises. La marque a mis au point en collaboration avec l’agence sud-coréenne Cheil, une technique révolutionnaire permettant de faire les courses dans le métro. Elle est partie du constat que les personnes en Corée du Sud n’ont ni le temps, ni l’énergie de faire les courses après le travail.

Observez plutôt… Des énormes stickers représentant les différents produits du magasin ont été collés sur les murs du métro. Les modes de vie et de consommation ont changé. Le « ReKommending », une vraie nouvelle méthode de prospection 2.0. Game Multiplayer Gaming Iphone Lua Corona Sdk. Enable multiplayer networking with your mobile games with three functions: Init PubNub Multiplayer ObjectCall Subscribe() to begin receiving messages.Call Publish() to send messages.

Game Multiplayer Gaming Iphone Lua Corona Sdk

Additionally, you can take a look at the Corona SDK website here. We’ll be using the Corona SDK with the multiplayer networking API. Download Corona Multiplayer API Download all the source code you need here: these easy steps to get starting with your Multiplayer API. Download Lua Corona Multiplayer APIGet Your PubNub KeysCopy the files into your Lua Code DirectoryContinue Reading to add just 3 functions to Enable Multiplayer Support. Get Your PubNub Keys Here To get your PubNub keys, first sign up for a free account. Learn about PubNub Cloud-Hosted Service for Realtime Messaging PubNub is a new kind of Cloud-Hosted Broadcasting Service for Mass Communication on Mobile Phones, Tablets, TVs, HTML5 Web Browsers and Game Consoles.

New Approaches To Designing Log-In Forms - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement For many of us, logging into websites is a part of our daily routine.

New Approaches To Designing Log-In Forms - Smashing Magazine

In fact, we probably do it so often that we’ve stopped having to think about how it’s done… that is, until something goes wrong: we forget our password, our user name, the email address we signed up with, how we signed up, or even if we ever signed up at all. These experiences are not just frustrating for us, but are bad for businesses as well. How bad? User Interface Engineering’s analysis of a major online retailer found that 45% of all customers had multiple registrations in the system, 160,000 people requested their password every day, and 75% of these people never completed the purchase they started once they requested their password. To top it off, visitors who are not logged in do not see a personalized view of a website’s content and recommendations, which reduces conversion rates and engagement. Is This You? The sign-in form on Gowalla. A log-in error on Gowalla. Social Network games market forecast. Call to Action Buttons: Examples and Best Practices - Smashing Magazine.

Advertisement Call to action in web design — and in user experience (UX) in particular — is a term used for elements in a web page that solicit an action from the user.

Call to Action Buttons: Examples and Best Practices - Smashing Magazine

The most popular manifestation of call to action in web interfaces comes in the form of clickable buttons that when clicked, perform an action (e.g. "Buy this now! ") or lead to a web page with additional information (e.g. "Learn more…") that asks the user to take action. How can we create effective call to action buttons that grab the user’s attention and entice them to click? Best Practices for Effective Call to Action Buttons Designing call to action buttons into web interfaces requires some forethought and planning; it has to be part of your prototyping and information architecture processes in order for them to work well.

Draw user attention with size In web pages, the size of an element relative to its surrounding elements indicates its importance: the larger the element is, the more important it is.