Archive for the 'Mobile' Category

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Parking the Parking Douche

Russia has a real problem with parking. I mean a major one. One where douche’s park where they want. Using an app called Parking Douche (not sure about how this is English vs. Russian), you can take a photo of the car and publicly humiliate those who park with no concern for others. Another great example of how social media
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Old Format. New Medium.

Remember those old books as kids that you read a bit then had a decision to make? The following is an ad that in someways is not new. I seen this before but in this case it work. I am not sure why, whether it is the ‘backstage’ or under the radar emotive that comes forth. In any case, I
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Tsk. Tsk. Jerks on Mobiles. [INFOGRAPHIC]

Online College produced an infographic about mobile bad manners. How many of these rules have you violated?

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You Will Get What You Pay For. Shit.

I came across an ad on Kijiji from the local health authority that was basically asking for free work entitled “Seeking volunteer with Adobe Flash experience to build animation” The ad claimed that “There should be no advanced programming or animation required.” The problem was, was that the work asked for was to be built in Flash and would be
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Mobile Metrics and Social Misreporting

A new white paper by Third Door Media and distributed by Adobe’s Digital Marketing has looked into the relationship of social media and mobile. When you are on your mobile, accessing an app is not the same experience as on the desktop. The newsfeed is different, pages are not as present and of course there is no advertising. For now. According
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Earth to Social Times: Pinterest is Not in Decline

  Social Times ran an article Pinterest’s Facebook App Is Losing Users – What Happened? today. The article says: The number of daily average users (DAU) had peaked at 1.3 million on April 18, which is also the day that Pinterest released an improved version of its iOS app. But the numbers dropped dramatically on April 20 after Pinterest tightened
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The RIM Delima

Will Blackberry ever get back on top? Likely not. It is on a downward roller coaster as development of apps dies, so does the want-ability of the product. The big rivalry is between Samsung/Andriod and Apple/iOS now, even in the home country of Blackberry’s parent company RIM – Canada. Perhaps somewhere along the road, someone at RIM should have stopped
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10 Complimentary White Papers

The fastest-growing social media site ever has become a huge traffic referral (arguably, more powerful than Google+) for all businesses. An increasing number of companies are leveraging the platform to reach a new audience, increase visits to their websites, and generate leads or retail sales. And guess what? It’s working. In Learning LinkedIn from the Experts, five LinkedIn specialists provide
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Too Many Posts to Your Timeline Creates Havoc to Like

Yesterday I received a lot of posts on my Facebook wall as it was my birthday. What the problem was, was that I could not readily access to see who was posting, or to like each post because of the volume. This got me thinking of how this really is a limitation for someone who might have upwards to 5000
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HTML5 versus Adobe Flash (infographic)

Last year Jobs had Apple positioning HTML5 as the new replacement for Adobe’s Flash. Since then the debate about the two has heated up with many developers backing either but rarely both. Flash based gaming developer Onemorelevel has developed the following infographic – already in itself causing some debate as to the apples to oranges comparison. An interesting point I
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