Dark Google Vexes Publishers. Taskmasters: how Israeli intelligence officers helped inspire the look of iOS 7. The power of two: Use your phone as a document scanner. For all the talk about a “post-PC” world, most people use smartphones and tablets as additions to their existing technological arsenal, rather than a replacement for a standard laptop or desktop.
What many users fail to realize is that there are a number of ways to combine the capabilities of your PC and mobile device that can make your tablet or smartphone an even more powerful tool. Young People Are Not as Digitally Native as You Think. Kim Hong-Ji/ReutersMore than 90 percent of young people in many developed countries are digital natives, with South Korea leading the way at 99.6 percent, according to a new study.
Everyone knows young people these days are born with smartphones in hand and will stay glued to the Internet from that time onward. Right? Well, not quite. Actually, fewer than one-third of young people around the world are “digital natives,” according to a report published Monday and billed as the first comprehensive global look at the phenomenon. The study, conducted by the Georgia Institute of Technology and the International Telecommunication Union, shows that only 30 percent of people ages 15 to 24 have spent at least five years actively using the Internet, the criterion used to define digital nativism. In many developed countries, more than 90 percent of young people are considered digital natives, with South Korea leading the way at 99.6 percent. That is especially true in developing countries. Daily chart: When in roam... The Price of 500MB of Mobile Data Across the World.
Thompson's business ideas face mixed reaction from New York Times staff. A New York Times-sponsored cruise to Europe with editors and reporters is one of the controversial money-making ideas being cooked up by chief executive Mark Thompson's new regime, according to a recent interview with the former BBC director general in the New York magazine.
The Real Life Social Network v2. Why Developers Won’t Quit Facebook: Glassdoor Grows Registered Users 10X in 90 Days. By Sarah Lacy On August 23, 2012 Like the arid Oakland hills, the blogosphere has spent the summer ablaze with developer anger, as it dawns on everyone what it means to build a company dependent on someone else’s platform.
The End of the Facebook Like Bubble. Business - Derek Thompson - This Graph Is Disastrous for Print and Great for Facebook—or the Opposite! If you work anywhere near media, you'll want to take a long look at this graph.
It tells you where Americans direct our attention (in BLUE) and where advertisers pay money to capture our attention (in RED). -- Takeaway #1: We still love TV. -- Takeaway #2: Advertisers still love print.-- Takeaway #3: Audiences move faster than advertisers. According to this chart -- adapted from a Mary Meeker slideshow excerpted by Bill Gross -- we spend more time engaging with mobile devices than reading print.
But print publications still get 25-times more ad money than mobile. Either the eyeballs are moving faster than the advertisers, who will eventually stop paying for print ... or the ad teams don't think a minute spent around mobile ads is worth a minute spend around print ads. Relevance. Your Anti-Social Media Rant Reveals Too Much About Your Friends - Alexis C. Madrigal. How to Get More Twitter Followers by Jenny Johnson: Humor. I'm frequently asked questions about my Twitter account.
Mary Meeker's 2011 Web 2.0 Summit Presentation. Every time I come to a Web 2.0 conference, Mary Meeker's presentation is what I most look forward to!
She's been doing them for eight years now and they're always big on data, long on vision. You can view the presentation below, along with real-time notes taken while Meeker spoke. Mobile has been a big theme of her presentations over the past couple of years. Web 2.0 Is Over, All Hail the Age of Mobile. How Your Wireless Carrier Overcharges You.
When your wireless carrier charges you for the amount of data you used on your cell phone in a given month, how do you know the bill is accurate?
It very well might not be, according to a new study. This question is more important to consumers than ever. Over the past year, the growth in the popularity of smartphones has led the largest U.S. mobile carriers to replace unlimited data plans with ones that place caps on data usage, and charge extra for exceeding those limits. Working with three colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles, computer science PhD researcher Chunyi Peng probed the systems of two large U.S. cell-phone networks. She won’t identify them but says that together they account for 50 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers. Research: Mobile Web Ads Beat Apps. Consumers engage with mobile Web advertising significantly more than they engage with advertising on ad supported apps, according to statistics for the month of April included in Jumptap’s Simple Targeting & Audience Trends (S.T.A.T.), a monthly report that examines trends in mobile advertising.
The report, which is based on information culled from Jumptap’s ad network, indicated that more than 58 percent of mobile internet users are engaging with ad content through their browser versus 42 percent from ad-supported apps. The Naysayers are Wrong: Mobile Will Monetize Better Than Desktop. Fixing Mobile Platforms. I wrote an article recently on why mobile app-first companies are doomed to fail due to their inability to close viral loops and retain users effectively.
I pivoted my own company’s new product Origami to focus on the web and build mobile as a companion. The article centers on data regarding onboarding and our inability to optimize onboarding in a timely manner. I’d like to propose a couple changes for Apple and Google to consider that I believe would make mobile a viable platform for startups going forward. I’ve ordered these from most plausible to least plausible. 1. “I have no idea why people are downloading my app, or how they found out about it” is the response given by most app developers when asked where their mobile downloads are coming from.
BII REPORT: Here Are The Two Keys To Making Mobile Payments Work. Samsung Regains Smartphone Sales Top Spot, Overtakes Apple. The first quarter of 2012 saw Korean mobile firm Samsung overtake Apple to regain its position as the biggest seller of smartphones across the world, according to a report released by Strategy Analytics. Samsung’s 31 percent market share saw it out-gun Apple’s 24 percent over the three month period, flipping the duo’s positions after the Cupertino-based firm led the previous quarter. Samsung has not revealed its sales figure for the quarter, though analysts estimate it be in the region of 44 million, while Apple this week disclosed that it sold 35 million iPhones.
Retailers remain keen on Samsung’s range and the firm’s global smartphone shipments rose by 253 percent (year-on-year) to account for 44.5 million devices. 2012 Internet Trends.