July, 2008 Archive
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt
As many of you may have noticed, posting has been a little light over the past few weeks. We've been buried with new initiatives, clients and prepping some proprietary consumer research for later in the year. So, given that we are entering the dog days of summer, I've decided to ...
Posted in Digital Branding | 7 Comments »
Sunday, July 27th, 2008 by Kyle Outlaw
Mobile Banking in the Maldives
Interesting BBC article on how the banks of the small Indian Ocean nation have collaborated to offer a single mobile banking system, including services such as payments, transfers, and extension of credit. The Maldives are comprised of hundreds of small rural islands making it difficult for ...
Tags: admob, bbc, iphone, maldives, wordpress
Posted in Mobile | 9 Comments »
Thursday, July 24th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt
Nielsen is out with some interesting stats on the US mobile Internet market. According to Nielsen, the US is the global leader (!) in mobile Internet adoption with 40 million subscribers actively using the Internet on their mobile devices. The UK, Italy, Russi and Spain round out the top five ...
Tags: cnn, google, mail, Mobile, nielsen, stats, us, yahoo
Posted in Mobile | 4 Comments »
Sunday, July 20th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt
Forrester is out with a report this week on the "Best and Worst of Social Network Marketing in 2008." Jeremiah Owyang, who authored the report, has a great overview on his blog -- Web Strategy By Jeremiah. Couldn't agree more with his overall premise:
It’s true, most social network marketing isn’t ...
Tags: apple, bmw, campaigns, facebook, forrester, marketing, myspace, red bull, victoria's secret
Posted in Social Media | 8 Comments »
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt
We've been doing a lot of work lately on understanding consumer digital behavior and the adoption curve of Internet technologies. Needless to say, sociability or "connectedness" has been driving much of our findings and is starting to really up-end some of our clients (and or own) conceptions of what works ...
Tags: amazon, design, google, joe krauss, kevin werbach, open social, wharton
Posted in Social Media | 1 Comment »
Sunday, July 13th, 2008 by Kyle Outlaw
Never mind the iPocalypse - some of the best iphone apps will be free
Let's not talk about the fact that I'm still trying to restore my contacts list - iPhone firmware 2.0 promises to make life a whole lot better. Out of the more than 500 apps that were released ...
Tags: apps, gnu, ibm, itunes, Mobile, sony, sony ericsson
Posted in Mobile | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt
As the not-so-secret Facebook redesign readies for launch, the company is asking users and developers for feedback on the new profile page layout:
Inside Facebook has the full story.
Tags: facebook beta preview design google
Posted in Design Tactics | 1 Comment »
Monday, July 7th, 2008 by Mia Northrop
Wouldn't it be nice if you could take the reviews and ratings of a product from one site and automatically plug it into your blog? Or if you could add contact details from a site straight into your Contacts? Or if adding the details of an event from a website to ...
Tags: hcalendar, hcard, hresume, hreview, microformats, semantic web
Posted in Design Tactics, Technology, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
