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A JupiterResearch survey found that 33% of broadband shoppers are unwilling to wait more than four seconds for a web page to load, whereas 43% of narrowband users will not wait more than six seconds (Akamai 2006).
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mobile barcode scanning solving fixed lens issues
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From a while back. Caused a lot of controversy at the time. Argues on device apps are going to be replaced by mobile web apps.
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mobile advertising service including sms
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Location-based SMS text messages service. Being used by realtors
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The Betavine API lets you interact with mobile & web services. It allows you to send text messages, push web links to mobiles and access Betavine content. API calls are available in a variety of formats including XML, JSON and RSS.
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Awesome Highlighter lets you highlight text on web pages and then gives you a small link to the highlighted page.
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long tail search analytics for seo efforts
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Great software for creating timelines
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The result is CiUI (CNET iPhone UI) that mimics iPhone UI behavior. It’s already being used on CNET’s iPhone page (http://iphone.cnet.com). It’s been greatly inspired by iUI with a few key differences:
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A sandbox for collecting search examples, patterns, and anti-patterns.
Month: May 2008
Evolution of the Mobile Phone
via Darla Mack
Updates on How Long People Will Wait for a Page to Load
Andrew King has a new post up highlighting recent research on how long people will wait for a page to load. Previously, the magic number was 10 seconds, but broadband has decreased our patience for slow sites.
A JupiterResearch survey found that 33% of broadband shoppers are unwilling to wait more than four seconds for a web page to load, whereas 43% of narrowband users will not wait more than six seconds (Akamai 2006).
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Google found that moving from a 10-result page loading in 0.4 seconds to a 30-result page loading in 0.9 seconds decreased traffic and ad revenues by 20% (Linden 2006).
Plus a very real impact on sales:
Tests at Amazon revealed similar results: every 100 ms increase in load time of Amazon.com decreased sales by 1% (Kohavi and Longbotham 2007).
links for 2008-05-30
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“IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process. “
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Mobile web = weekend web
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This is a great service for finding photographs. Much better than Flickr’s own search tool.
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Twitter Statistics with Yahoo Pipes and the Google Chart API
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Marshall explains his consulting business
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Pinch Analytics — a hosted solution that brings the richness of web analytics to iPhone SDK applications.
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Great list of yahoo pipes
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Good discussion of why the using the html input type password is a usability problem for mobile
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How to erase the phone in a way that makes it much more difficult to recover data.
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Technique for using Amazon S3 as a content delivery network.
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“Safari/WebKit is the most interesting of all as it appears to have no perceivable limit through Safari 3.1. I tested setting up to 10,000 cookies and all of them were set and sent along in the Cookie header. ” Crazy
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basics of getting an app up and running on Google App Engine
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Longer term statistics show that since 1995 the size of the average web page has increased by 22 times, and the number of objects per page has grown by 21.7 times.
Wow
Sometimes you can’t find the words to describe what you’re seeing. Watch this video about Dean Kamen’s latest invention.
German Interview with Google’s Eric Schmidt
Google CEO Eric Schmidt sat down with the Frantfurter Allgemeine (FAZ.net) to discuss things mobile and social networks among other things.
On mobile:
Just take the success of the iPhone: It has the first really powerful web browser on a mobile device – and many more are still coming. Nokia has one coming, Blackberry has one and Motorola has one. They are all supposed to be released this year. By these products, the advertising gets more targeted because phones are personal. So targeted ads are possible. And that means the value of the ads will grow. The next big wave in advertising is the mobile internet.
On social networks:
MySpace did not monetize as well as we thought. We have a lot of traffic, a lot of page views, but it is harder than we thought to get our ad network to work with social networks. When you are in social network, it is not likely that you´ll buy a washing machine.
Some good stuff in there. I recommend the full article.
Test Multiple Versions of IE in One Application
Via Ajaxian today: A new, free tool that lets you test IE8, 7, 6, and 5.5 in the same application. It is called IETester and is from the gentleman who created the DegugBar for IE. Download it here.
Free Mobile Data Report
Via Russell Buckley: “Portio Reseach have just published a free downloadable PDF, which contains tons of market data on the state of mobile. It’s a taster for the whole report that they want you to buy (fair enough), but there’s loads of facts to get your mind around in the free version.”
links for 2008-05-29
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Includes numbers on mobile services adoption. Shows low adoption of location-based services
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Worldwide sales of mobile phones reached 294.3 million in the first quarter of 2008, a 13.6 percent increase over the first quarter of 2007, Gartner reported
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Radar coverage of my mobile presentation from web visions
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Response to NYT article questioning iPhone target of 10M for 2008. Author says, “Here’s the thing. I’ve stared at Apple’s iPhone sales figures repeatedly over the last few months, and I can’t see any reasonable way that the company can’t sell 10
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The video of street view combined with the compass is very cool.
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A survey of 50,000 U.S. households conducted by iSuppli Corp. in the fourth quarter of 2007 found that iPhone users spent just 46.5% of their time on the device making calls, compared to 71.7% for the typical cell phone user.
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“Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, the firm behind a $100 million venture capital for official iPhone application development, told iPhone Atlas that its managers have been been overwhelmed by the response and subsequent slew of applications submitted f
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“The presentations I’ve seen at Web 2.0 Expo and WebVisions are awesome. They’re basically photo slideshows with some minimal captions for emphasis. This makes for a very different experience than a typical bullet-fest.” Includes some kind words from
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This post theorizes that the iPhone 3G will be available without carrier lock in. Makes some decent point. Seems unlikely to me, but want to be able to come back to it if he turns out to be right.
iPhone Owners Spend More Time on Phone For Things Other Than Voice
“A survey of 50,000 U.S. households conducted by iSuppli Corp. in the fourth quarter of 2007 found that iPhone users spent just 46.5% of their time on the device making calls, compared to 71.7% for the typical cell phone user. The rest of the time, they were reading and sending e-mail, browsing the Web and checking out Google Maps, among other tasks.”
Via BtoBOnline.com