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Archive for the ‘Mobile Web’ Category

Mobile User Experience: Less is More

April 5th, 2010

Smart devices help us by allowing us to think—not always do—less.

When the iPhone Calls, You’d Better Answer

March 26th, 2010

Ever since Apple released the iPhone 3G and opened it up to third-party developers we’ve seen thousands of fantastic applications hit the app store. Granted, we’ve also seen thousands of mindless games and time-wasters. But developers are also creating good applications that make use of the iPhone operating system (OS), the device’s hardware features, peripherals, [...]

Stop! Do not put that phone down!

November 23rd, 2009

So I have a problem, a problem that most of you may have as well. I am a cell phone addict. During the recent SM2Day conference, Chris Brogan made the statement that people can leave their wallet or keys behind, but will not stray more than 10 yards from their cell phone. Chris was right. [...]

Opportunity for PR in iPhone Apps

October 26th, 2009

With new technology comes new opportunity.  For PR professionals looking for the next “big thing” it looks like the opportunity might be in iPhone applications. At the recent Ad Age/Applicious “Apps for Brands” conference, Carl Minchew, director, product development for Benjamin Moore, discussed the importance of launching PR strategies in this “new world” of apps [...]

Save reading long articles for later with Instapaper

June 23rd, 2009

If you’ve never heard of Instapaper, it’s a fairly useful and relatively unknown pseudo-bookmarking tool that allows you to quickly save the long articles you may come across on the web on a daily basis for later reading. In other words, it “facilitates easy reading of long text content.” A lot of times, with the [...]