The Rise of Smartphones, Apps and the Mobile Web

A recent research by Nielsen, shows the fastest grow of mobile penetration (in U.S.) and the video consumption on both Featurephones and Smartphones.

If your your website isn’t yet tailored for mobile devices, well, it’s definitely time to refresh it.

Key findings :

- The majority of 25-34 and 18-24 year olds now own smartphones (64% and 53% respectively)

- The majority of smartphone owners (62%) have downloaded apps on their devices and games are the top application category used in the past 30 days

- The number of smartphone subscribers using the mobile Internet has grown 45 percent since 2010

- 87 percent of app downloaders (those who have downloaded an app in the past 30 days) have used deal-of-the-day websites like Groupon or Living Social

- Younger groups text the most. In Q3, teens 13-17 sent and received the most text messages (an average of 3,417 each month)

[via Nielsen]

Twitter Head Animation

Twitter Head from Geoill on Vimeo.

Project Details:

The animated infographic called Twitter Head is a fun design that visually displays information about Twitter.

TwitterHead is the second of a series of information graphics about social media and technology by Geoill LLC.

Twitter Head is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License so it is available for people to publish on to their sites.

The sources of information is from wikipedia.org and pewinternet.org.

Gmail stop motion by Jess3

A little bit old, but very nice.

Backstage footage.

Rome: a new film experiment in HTML5

After the first experiment with Arcade Fire in “The Wilderness Downtown“, Chris Milk returns with a new HTML5 interactive v ideo for Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi: Rome.

Watch the video down here, and the enjoy the full experience film here (requires Google Chrome)

 

Amazon Cloud Drive

Today Amazon launched its new cloud backup service: you can store photo, documents, videos and music up to 5GB for free. It provides you an online cloud mp3 player to stream your music from every browser with a broadband connection.

I tested it a little bit and it seems pretty easy to use, with a clean interface and a good upload speed rate (Apple MobileMe it’s faster!).
Pro plans start from 20$ per year as shown below:

If you already have an Amazon.com active account you’re already signed in.

Give it a try here.

 

Bounce rate

Learning a bit about bounce rate for your website and how to improve it.

Skype for iPhone: now with video

Skype per iPhone adesso ha anche la videochiamata, sia con 3G che Wi-Fi. Qui tutte le info.

Trying not to wake your partner

Pubblcità non convenzionale per bevanda inglese. Enjoy :)

[via BoingBoing]

LG HB45E Home Cinema System. Recensione

Ho provato per voi il nuovo LG HB45E Home Cinema System.

Si presenta molto ben curato sia nel design (essenziale per un prodotto moderno!), sia nelle funzionalità: può riprodurre dischi blu-ray, dvd, cd audio, divx, mp3.

Il cuore del sistema è il lettore/amplificatore che oltre all’alloggiamento per i blu-ray, ha sia l’entrata usb che quella dedicata ad iPod e iPhone. Quest’ultima, supportata dal dock dedicato, ha il doppio vantaggio di caricare il device e di poterlo controllare in remoto con il telecomando in dotazione.

Una volta inserito l’iPod, sul nostro televisore potremo scorrere le nostre canzoni e playlist come se fosse iTunes. Molto semplice ed intuitivo.

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