25 Awesome Tools for Choosing a Website Color Scheme. 25 Awesome Tools for Choosing a Website Color Scheme As a designer, color management should be an integral part of your workflow. A website’s color scheme helps shape its identity and therefore should not be carelessly thrown together. Here are 25 online, desktop and iPhone applications to help you live and breathe color management no matter where you are. Online Tools There are simply a ton of free color tools available on the web. However, a cursory search reveals that most are extremely basic and simply mimic everything else out there. Here’s a few that I found that stood out in either design, usability or features. Kuler Kuler is one of the best free online color scheme creation tools out there and my personal favorite.
Color Scheme Designer Color Scheme Designer has a beautiful interface that helps you create beautiful color schemes in seconds. colorblind simulation is built in so you can ensure usability will be optimized for all users. Colour Lovers Pictaculous Color Spire Color Explorer. EBay expects $1.5B in mobile revenue by year-end - Mobile Marketer - Commerce. By Dan Butcher October 22, 2010 The eBay Deals application for iPhone and iPod touch NEW YORK – An eBay executive at the Netbiscuits Partner Day 2010 said that his company’s mobile commerce business will eventually surpass its ecommerce revenue.
Funneled through its subsidiary PayPal, eBay’s mobile revenue was in excess of $600 million in 2009, and the company is well on its way to at least $1.5 billion in mobile revenue this year. “For eBay, mobile commerce is the future, and our plan is to innovate and hit the gas pedal—we don’t see the steep growth trajectory of mobile commerce changing,” said Oliver Cockcroft, product manager at eBay, Palo Alto, CA. “We’re driving as hard as we can to break through and become mcommerce leader,” he said.
That said, there are still plenty of challenges to overcome, even for a $1.5 billion mobile commerce giant. EBay is making mobile money The other key challenge is education. EBay's Android app Mr. Mr. Netbiscuits' CEO Michael Neidhoefer: Final Take. eBay se rapproche des commerces physiques en rachetant Where. eBay rachète le service de localisations de commerces physiques Where, qui devrait lui permettre de renforcer ses activités m-commerce et de mieux réconcilier on et offline. eBay se renforce encore sur le mobile. Le groupe américain a annoncé jeudi 21 avril avoir racheté la start-up Where qui édite un service de géolocalisation de commerces physiques sur mobile.
Selon Bostinnovation.com, le montant de la transaction est estimé à 135 millions de dollars mais n'a pas été confirmé. L'opération doit être finalisée d'ici la fin du deuxième trimestre. Where sera intégré à la division Paypal, mais continuera à fonctionner de manière indépendante. Créé en 2004, Where propose une application mobile permettant à ses utilisateurs de trouver des commerces. Le service de paiement Paypal sera notamment intégré à l'application Where pour permettre aux utilisateurs d'acheter des promotions à proximité. En quelques années, eBay est devenu l'un des plus gros acteurs du m-commerce.
Mieux vendre avec eBay autour de vous, nouvelle application iPhone. eBay annonce le lancement de deux applications iPhone pour l'instant sur le marché Us mais très rapidement en Europe (eBay deals et eBay Selling) gratuite permettant aux utilisateurs de vendre de manière plus efficace les articles d'ebay via le mobile. Les utilisateurs peuvent accéder à la liste des articles et vendre en moins de 60 secondes, les vendeurs vont pouvoir déterminer les prix moyens de vente des articles similaires par catégories ou en en spécifiant des mots clés, puis utiliser l'appareil photo de l'iPhone et télécharger des photos du produit en question. La localisation et le m-commerce font bon ménage, ce qui permettra de trouver des articles dans votre environnement immédiat. L'expérience utilisateur pour vendre un bien n'a jamais été aussi facile ! Et c'est le mobile qui permet cela !
eBay rapports que près de 8 millions d'utilisateurs ont déjà téléchargé l'application iPhone d'origine, les consommateurs achètent sur l'application eBay mobile toutes les deux secondes.
Bench. Locl.ly. How Geolocation Will Revolutionize the On-Site Service Industry. Dave Yarnold is CEO of ServiceMax, a full suite of mobile field service management applications. Follow Dave on Twitter @dyarnold or visit the ServiceMax blog. Geolocation services are popping up for consumers everywhere, from Uber, which sends a car service to your door two times faster than a cab, to Bizzy, an app that shows you where your friends have dined lately and offers their recommendations. But what about the enterprise?
Shouldn’t this revolutionary technology be transforming companies and not just consumer habits? Well, it is. Until recently, this has been a business run on clipboards, spreadsheets and Post-Its, with techs sent on their routes with little more than a phone to connect with the main office. Real-time tracking and display of tech location and status. Geolocation technology is just one of the many innovations that is making its mark on the enterprise and helping companies rethink field service. Interested in more Geolocation resources?
Make an APP. How to really make something. 10 business models that rocked 2010 - by @nickdemey (boardofinnovation.com) How to Start a Startup. March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard Computer Society.) You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed.
And that's kind of exciting, when you think about it, because all three are doable. Hard, but doable. And since a startup that succeeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies getting rich is doable too. If there is one message I'd like to get across about startups, that's it. The Idea In particular, you don't need a brilliant idea to start a startup around.
Google's plan, for example, was simply to create a search site that didn't suck. There are plenty of other areas that are just as backward as search was before Google. For example, dating sites currently suck far worse than search did before Google. People Raising Money. AlloCiné. Yahoo to introduce mobile content personalization platform. Yahoo is reportedly poised to introduce a new mobile publishing platform touting content personalized to each user's tastes and preferences. Citing sources familiar with the initiative, The New York Times reports Yahoo will formally unveil the project next week during the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona--the platform will deliver customized content based on a user's stated preferences, search history, social media connections and other sources. Although Yahoo will offer the solution on its website, the software engine is optimized for smartphones and tablets, in particular devices running Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS and Google's rival (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android.
More than 50 Yahoo engineers have collaborated on the effort, codenamed "Deadeye"--in addition, the digital services provider will team with outside publishers to create third-party apps powered by the same software. Yahoo declined to comment on the report. iPhone : 30 % de parts de marché en France. Alors qu'il se vend désormais plus de smartphones équipés d'Android que d'iPhone aux États-Unis, ce n'est pas encore le cas en France. L'iPhone pourrait bien en effet être la plateforme la plus populaire dans le domaine des smartphones en France début 2011 : en décembre 2010, il représentait 30 % des smartphones vendus contre 30,2 % pour Nokia.
Comme ailleurs, la firme finlandaise est en recul : elle perd 10 points en un an. Bon an mal an, l'iPhone est stable autour de cette barre des 30 %, la sortie de l'iPhone 4 n'ayant entraîné qu'un bond très relatif. Microsoft est l'autre grand perdant, passant de 20 % de parts de marché à 9,7 %, l'effet Windows Phone 7 ne se faisant pas sentir, alors que les BlackBerry représentent désormais 8,1 % des ventes. Mais le grand gagnant est encore et toujours Android qui a sextuplé sa part de marché en moins d'un an : près d'un smartphone sur cinq vendu en France est aujourd'hui équipé du système d'exploitation de Google.
Via Le Figaro. Ideas.