May 2012
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Social Gaming Trends 2011 (via @MetroMcCann) →
Mobile social gaming
MMO (massive multiplayer online) games are becoming more feasible on mobile devices with the help of faster mobile internet access through 3G and faster, more powerful devices. The new IPhone 4s provides faster graphics than ever as well as the ability to use more resources simultaneously without affecting game play. If Facebook games were able to be played on mobile devices...
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#DarkPatterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick... →
Dark Patterns: User Interfaces Designed to Trick People (Presented at UX Brighton 2010)
View another webinar from Harry Brignull
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How Has The Shift To Visual Affected Ecommerce and... →
More at: http://www.mdgadvertising.com/blog/its-all-about-the-images-infographic/
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Pinterest In The ’90s: What It Would Have been... →
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Facebook provides reach data directly on Timeline... →
Some Facebook page owners can now view certain post metrics directly from their Timeline, including the percentage of fans that saw a given post and the percentage of those who saw the post as a result of paid promotion.
This gives page owners an at-a-glance understanding of how many fans they are reaching. Or, more likely, make them realize how many they aren’t reaching. As users share more...
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App Discovery By Quality, Not Popularity: Facebook... →
Today, Facebook app discovery too heavily favors the loudest apps with the most users, so Facebook today announces it will soon launch the App Center, a single, personalized hub for discovering the highest quality Facebook-integrated games and utilities from across the web and mobile. And for the first time, Facebook is beta testing the option for developers to sell pre-paid web and HTML5 apps....
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Nice clear terms of service from 500px - their... →
Description Of Service
The Site is an online community which enables photographers and graphic artists to post photographs and images, share comments, opinions and ideas, promote their work, participate in contests and promotions, and access and/ or purchase services from time to time made available on the Site (“Services”). Services include, but are not limited to, any service and/or content...
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Don't just like, save recipes, places + products >... →
Facebook announced Wednesday it has added yet another way for friends to interact with your Timeline: “action links.”
Instead of just Liking a post about a recipe or product, say, you can now hit “Save this Recipe” or “Fave this Product” in Open Graph apps.
When a friend checks in on Foursquare and the checkin is added to their Timeline, you can remind yourself to visit that location by...
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Virtual roleplaying game helps teenagers deal with... →
Developed by the University of Auckland, players can choose an avatar which they must guide through seven ‘provinces’ related to problems they may come across while experiencing mental health issues. For instance, the Volcano Province contains tasks which can help teens deal with disruptive emotions, while on another level users have to fight GNATS (Gloomy Negative Automatic Thoughts). Each...
April 2012
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Kitty Cat Hijack > This App Will Have Your... →
Need we say more? The KittyCat Hijack app from Canadian cat food brand Temptations will have your favorite websites swarming with felines within minutes.
To activate the app, go to the brand’s Facebook Page and then add the app to your bookmarks bar. (The creators made this simple by putting the app in the form of a cat food bag.) After that, you can let the cats loose on your favorite...
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“According to a survey out today from YouGov, people in Britain are not quite...”
– More at: UK TV-Buyers Apparently Not So Smart
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Kraft sends personal thank you to thousands of... →
More at: http://wallblog.co.uk/2012/04/30/kraft-sends-personal-thank-you-to-thousands-of-facebook-fans/
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The ultimate customer experience: #infographic... →
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Alarm clock app rewards users for guessing which... →
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OMG, yes please > Could Netflix Bring Firefly Back... →
Article found via: http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/GraphicCity/news/?a=51453
bernardin:
Ever since Joss Whedon’s space western was canceled back in 2003, its fans — at first, a relatively small contingent, but as time and DVD sales grew, so did the ranks swell — have wondered what could possibly rescue it from the tightly clenched jaws of death. And until now, nothing could….
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Overseas shoppers show growing interest in UK... →
Overseas shoppers are showing growing interest in what UK retail has to offer, the latest figures from theBritish Retail Consortium(BRC) suggest.
Retail searches from overseas grew by 57% in the first quarter of 2012, compared to the same period last year, according to today’sBRC-Google Online Retail Monitor. That’s well ahead of the 11% total growth in retail-related searches that the monitor...
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Love the interactive Forever21 ad > Creative... →
More fab campaigns including Mccain’s aromatic bus stop and a billboard war between Audi and BMW here.
Forever21 Times Square Billboard from space150 on Vimeo.
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Google to launch Dropbox rival next week? (via... →
Google is to launch a new cloud storage service called ‘Google Drive’ next week, according to reports.
People will be able to pay for more storage, but prices are not yet known, Read Write Web reported.
It is expected to allow users to put their files into Google Drive and access them on their desktop, mobile phone or tablet. The report stated that the service will work on...
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Graphic designers & illustrators! > Google seeks... →
The salary was undisclosed, but the job still sounds awesome.
The role: Doodler
First impressions matter. Every day, hundreds of millions of online users visit the Google homepage. Yes, to search. But also, to be delighted, informed, and surprised (And maybe even to laugh a little). The Google Doodle makes this possible — it’s the change that is constant on Google.com. As a Product...
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Designing a Mobile App? Don't Make These 10... →
So you’ve already learned how to navigate the tricky world of cross-platform app design and worked through all of the common pitfalls of developing your app. You have a vision, some inspiration and maybe even a name that you know will be perfect. So … now what?
It’s time to get down to the nitty-gritty and begin designing the structure, flow and features that will combine to form your finished...
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All @Foolproof_UX's whitepapers, reports &... →
This part of the site is where Foolproof (usability specialists) keep all of our proprietary research, publications and whitepapers.
http://www.foolproof.co.uk/insight/
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The Marketing Growth Wheel #Infographic (via... →
More at: http://www.smartinsights.com/digital-marketing-strategy/digital-strategy-development/marketing-growth-wheel-infographic/
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Map of the Dead - Zombie Survival Map (via... →
Be prepared for the end of days.
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Ace > What Twitter, Google and Angry Birds would... →
More at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2124992/What-Twitter-Google-Angry-Birds-look-like-1980s.html
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Sunday is the most engaging day for brands on... →
Sunday is the day where fans are most likely to engage with a brand on social media, research by Socialbakers has found.
Fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) and telecoms particularly fit this, with telecoms up from an average of 7% engagement during the week to 11% engagement.
Jan Rezab, CEO of Socialbaker, said: “To maximise fan engagement, brands need to tailor social media updates according...
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McDonald's Sweden: Their new hyper social YouTube... →
http://www.youtube.com/user/McDonaldsSv
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Pin-Commerce? 21% of Pinterest Users Have... →
According to a survey of 4,851 U.S. online consumers conducted by online comparison site PriceGrabber between March 13 and 26, Pinterest drives buying: 21% of respondents who use the site say that they have purchased a product after seeing its picture on the site. The most commonly purchased products were food- and cooking-related (33% of those purchased), fashion/clothing (32%), home...
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Retro Cornflakes as Kellogg’s creates limited... →
Kellogg’s is celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee with limited edition, 1950’s cereal packaging, thought up by the firm’s Trafford-based marketing department. They will feature the first Coco the monkey illustration and the original Snap, Crackle and Pop character, with a view to helping retailers capitalise on the Diamond Jubilee celebrations. The company has commissioned collectables...
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Facebook shoppers 'are mostly mums' - Telegraph... →
While shopping on Facebook is still uncommon, with only 1.5 million of the social network’s total 850 million members buying something via the site each month, the “overwhelming majority” of those who do are women.
Christian Taylor, the co-founder and chief executive of Silicon Valley start-up Payvment, the most popular commerce platform on Facebook – which powers 80 per cent of all shopping...
March 2012
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BlackBerry exits consumer market →
BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion (RIM) is to exit most consumer markets and focus on its business customers after reporting a net loss, caused by a slump in smartphone sales.
BlackBerry PlayBook: tablet attracts disappointing sales
The newly appointed chief executive Thorsten Heins has unveiled a turnaround strategy for the business, which will refocus on enterprise business at the...
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Chipotle Repurposes Their Billboard Ads Into... →
CHIPOTLE REPURPOSES THEIR BILLBOARD ADS INTO REUSABLE LUNCH BAGS
This Earth Day, April 22, Chipotle Mexican Grill will reward eco-friendly customers with a free menu item when they purchase a limited edition Chipotle branded repurposed billboard bag between now and April 14.
In keeping with Chipotle’s commitment to finding more sustainable solutions, the lunch bags are made from...
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Teachers Pin With Their Students > Pinterest being... →
Sitting through stuffy lectures with a monotonous teacher is a student’s worst nightmare. But Pinterest may be changing that. Yes, Pinterest, the site where people pin their favorite pictures on boards to share with the world.
With Pinterest gaining traction by the day, it’s becoming a valuable tool for educators. Not only are teacherssharing tipsand using the site to grabideas for lessons,...
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How the Guardian drove more traffic through... →
This week’s most stunning statistic: In February, Facebook drove more traffic to the Guardian web site than Google did.This fact was proffered (I couldn’t bring myself to write shared) at the Changing Medias Summit Conference by Tanya Corduroy, Guardian’s director for digital development (full text of her speech):
Eighteen months ago, search represented 40% of the Guardian’s traffic and social...
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Google to Launch Third-Party Commenting Platform... →
The Google comment system, which will almost certainly rival that of Facebook, will have deep links to Google’s network of services and websites, indexing comments in Google Search, and most significantly, the system will be available for use on third party sites.
You can’t go anywhere these days without running into a site that is using Facebook’sthird-party comment platform, and it looks like...
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Why Facebook commerce is alive and well (via... →
Some have questioned the effectiveness of Facebook as a commerce platform, but can you dismiss an ad and marketing channel with 800+ million users?
Here are some tips for increasing the opportunities for commerce on Facebook.
Recently, Bloomberg published an article about several retailers, J.C. Penney, Nordstrom, Gap and Gamestop, who all closed their Facebook stores in 2011.
As a consultant...
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Does your brand need a mascot to be successful in... →
Brands are being increasingly successful in social media by using humorous mascots, according to the WSJ. We’ve seen plenty of evidence of that in the UK with Dulux recently reinstating its dog and how brands as diverse as Burger King’s “The King”, Compare the Market (Meerkat) and Go Compare with its opera-singing mascot, Gio Compario, have used them.
The report says that ad executives believe...
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More TV Viewers Using Social Media To Talk About... →
Whether on a smartphone, tablet or laptop, using a second screen to tweet about TV is becoming a common occurrence - and it is called “chatterboxing”.
According to a survey conducted byTV Licensing, those aged 18-24 are the biggest uptakers of chatterboxing, with 46% of people who use social media taking part.
But the 25-34s are catching up - with 43% now chatterboxing, and in the...
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Consumers complain of technology fatigue - is... →
British consumers are suffering from fatigue when it comes to technology brands such as Apple and Facebook, despite the phenomenal hype surrounding the launch of products like the latest iPad.
Consumers fatigued by tech launches, claims survey
Almost 50% of respondents believed Apple’s new product development is too fast, with consumers unwilling to part with cash for fear their devices...
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29% of in-store mobile researchers wind up buying... →
It’s a store retailer’s worstmobile commercenightmare come true. 29% of consumers who use a smartphone to research a product while in a retail store end up purchasing the item online, many fromAmazon.com Inc., according to a new study by market research firm ClickIQ.
Of consumers who used a smartphone to research in-store and then purchase online, 55% were men and 45% were women, says the...
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Peugeot uses Pinterest to launch puzzle... →
More at: http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/9342-peugeot-uses-pinterest-to-launch-puzzle-competition
Peugeot Panama has launched a Pinterest-based competition that asks people to complete puzzles by repinning images of its cars.
Last week the brand created several boards depicting different models with pieces missing.
People can search for and find these pieces, pin them on their own boards and...