Archive for March, 2011

SXSW panelists’ unanimous take: Mobile is biggest game-changer

Today’s web news…

SXSW panelists’ unanimous take: Mobile is biggest game-changer
Google man opens curtain on cloud apps firewall glitch
4chan founder: Mark Zuckerberg is “totally wrong” about online identity
Three rules of the mobile Web
SXSW 2011: Jay Rosen on bloggers v journalists
Twitter angers third-party developers with ‘no more timelines’ urging
Christopher “moot” Poole’s Canvas Brings the Fun of 4Chan Mainstream
IBM takes aim at Smarter Commerce
Measuring Social Media: Who Has Access to the Firehose?
SXSW: Examining the Mobile App Landscape with GetJar’s Patrick Mork
4 Ways to Set Up a Storefront on Facebook
42 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed
Practicing Good Community Management
Help Japan: Facebook Click Helps Dogs Rescue Trapped Quake Victims
Build Real Time Web Apps More Easily with NowJS
Foursquare tries out an NFC-based check-in system at its HQ
Facebook Expands Tagging To Include Comments

Everyday at Vexed we round up the industry stories that we find interesting and insightful. These are sent round in an email digest, helping to inform the work we do for our clients and keep us at the forefront of digital. If you have questions about any of these stories or would like to talk to us about projects based on any of them, drop us a line at info@vexeddigital.com

41pc of iPhone users making purchases via the device: study

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41pc of iPhone users making purchases via the device: study
Facebook Places Get Tallies Of Check-Ins And Deals
Designing your sign up page
Central Garden & Pet debuts mobile image recognition at Sam’s Club, Walmart
Don’t ignore alternative payments
American Express offers cardholders special Foursquare deals during SXSW
Top 100 social brands revealed as Dell, Nike and Starbucks top the table
LinkedIn Adds News Service
SMS for an SAE? Denmark to swap stamps for texts
Offering an API? Create Your Own Console With Apigee’s Free API Tool
Apple doubles down on in-app purchasing security in iOS 4.3, password now required
Top 50 Facebook Stores, Top 20 Facebook Store Solutions
Translate on-site searches into user intent to increase conversion
Chanel evokes exclusivity with new multimedia channel for loyalists
Apple Changes In-App Purchase Policy to Protect Parents’ Credit Cards
Adobe Adds Social Analytics Tools to Online Marketing Suite
Roll Your Own Foursquare: Ushahidi Launches Open-Source Location Service
How to Convert a Facebook Profile to a Page
O2 launches Academy YouTube channel

Everyday at Vexed we round up the industry stories that we find interesting and insightful. These are sent round in an email digest, helping to inform the work we do for our clients and keep us at the forefront of digital. If you have questions about any of these stories or would like to talk to us about projects based on any of them, drop us a line at info@vexeddigital.com

Google squeezes thumbnails into mobile search

Today’s web news…

Google squeezes thumbnails into mobile search
Cameroon Bans Twitter
JS app that produces text along a path in pure CSS
Google juices VP8 open source video codec
Why Everyone Is Talking About Node
Instagram Now Adding 130,000 Users Per Week
New in Gmail Labs: Smart Labels
How mobile has changed the database marketing and list business
Brands explore bilingual mobile Web sites to expand reach
Gap lets consumers buy apparel via Glamour iPad app
OFT reveals Groupola’s group buying scam, takes “action”
Brands turn to direct selling online
Paid links: will the police now be after you as well as Google?
Flipboard Gets a Big Upgrade: Adds Search & More to Its iPad App
Social Sharing Buttons in Single Post Templates

Everyday at Vexed we round up the industry stories that we find interesting and insightful. These are sent round in an email digest, helping to inform the work we do for our clients and keep us at the forefront of digital. If you have questions about any of these stories or would like to talk to us about projects based on any of them, drop us a line at info@vexeddigital.com

Adobe Releases Flash-to-HTML5 Converter, Codenamed Wallaby

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Adobe Releases Flash-to-HTML5 Converter, Codenamed Wallaby
Google ads banned from Facebook apps
Study of what news people share on Facebook
Warner Bros. to Rent Movies Digitally on Facebook, Starting With ‘Dark Knight’
Like.fm (YC W11) Is A Social Network For Tracking Songs
Editorial: Facebook, single identities, and the right to be anonymous
What to do if you can’t afford SEO
Facebook links up with Samaritans on suicidal friends alert
How Fashion Retailers Are Redefining E-Commerce With Social Media
Clear Channel turns digital billboards into ‘store fronts’
Skype to test advertising
Audi encourages digital test drives via mobile game
Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular?
Turning Augmented Reality into an Open Standard
H&R Block lets consumers track tax refund via mobile app
Google’s Android No. 1 in smartphone market: comScore
Bizzy Introduces the Checkout to Mobile Apps
Abusing the HTML5 History API for fun (and chaos)
Facebook Disconnect – chrome extension to disable Facebook tracking
Google Voice Now Offers SIP Addresses For Calling Directly Over IP
New net rules set to make cookies crumble
YouTube Buys NextNewNetworks, Launches YouTube Next
Google Shifts Toward Content Creation With Purchase of Next New Networks

Everyday at Vexed we round up the industry stories that we find interesting and insightful. These are sent round in an email digest, helping to inform the work we do for our clients and keep us at the forefront of digital. If you have questions about any of these stories or would like to talk to us about projects based on any of them, drop us a line at info@vexeddigital.com

Facebook Unveils Third Credits Incentive

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Facebook Unveils Third Credits Incentive
Five steps to a strong mobile coupon program
Mozilla challenges Apple, Google with ‘open’ app store
How to get 4 to 5 stars on the App Store
Is NodeJS Wrong?
SelectOut: Opt out of being tracked online
How to put context into mobile with digital signage
F-Commerce: A First Infographic [Image]
9 Web Apps for Gathering Customer Feedback
Loqly. Location-based, real-time Q&A and recommendations from locals
Plug In Launcher for Android makes things happen when you connect USB or headphones
Wikipedia edited to mislead
Happily Married: Tourism And Social
Al Jazeera English Plans Show Centered on Social Networking
A Look at Food and Drink APIs, Faceted Search and Google’s Dominance
Who’s Really Scanning All Those QR Codes? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Everyday at Vexed we round up the industry stories that we find interesting and insightful. These are sent round in an email digest, helping to inform the work we do for our clients and keep us at the forefront of digital. If you have questions about any of these stories or would like to talk to us about projects based on any of them, drop us a line at info@vexeddigital.com

Google adds Twitter integration to push location reviews

Today’s web news…

Google adds Twitter integration to push location reviews
Mozilla Makes A Better Case for Web Apps in Minutes Than Google Did in Months
WebGL 1.0 is done. Where’s Microsoft?
Microsoft to fix four holes in Windows, Office
Apple gives developers iOS 4.3 Gold Master
Google demos driverless cars
A clone of Microsoft Paint in JavaScript, using the WHATWG Canvas
Full Text Preview of O’Reilly’s Up and Running with Node.js Now Available
WordPress comes under ‘extremely large’ web attack
Facebook Shop: The Next Step In Social?
Community management: are we all talking about the same thing?
Social media and SEO massively undervalued: study
Sony to release PlayStation Move developer tools for hobbyists
Apple Trying to Negotiate Unlimited iTunes Music Downloads
The evolution of social CRM

Everyday at Vexed we round up the industry stories that we find interesting and insightful. These are sent round in an email digest, helping to inform the work we do for our clients and keep us at the forefront of digital. If you have questions about any of these stories or would like to talk to us about projects based on any of them, drop us a line at info@vexeddigital.com

Mobile augmented reality apps to reach 1.4B downloads by 2015: study

Today’s web news…

How to back up your Gmail account (video)
Raph’s 40 social mechanics for social games
The Node Ahead: JavaScript leaps from browser into future
Gamers raise millions for charity
J Source to be released under GPL
The Node Ahead: JavaScript leaps from browser into future
Mobile augmented reality apps to reach 1.4B downloads by 2015: study
Puma’s Tretorn enters mobile commerce to boost bottom line
Adding Millions To Your Valuation Using SEO
VisitBritain targets Gen Y travelers via social media app
How to advertise effectively on Facebook
With Facebook Comments, Twitter And Google Login Flew The Coop
New Report: How Consumers Give Feedback
Nothing So Practical as Good Theory | Altimeter’s Lora Cecere on Social Commerce
“Tap Me” Aims To Take On In-Game Mobile Advertising, Sees 20-50 Percent Engagement
The Future of Mobile Notifications
Add social context to your e-mail in-box

Everyday at Vexed we round up the industry stories that we find interesting and insightful. These are sent round in an email digest, helping to inform the work we do for our clients and keep us at the forefront of digital. If you have questions about any of these stories or would like to talk to us about projects based on any of them, drop us a line at info@vexeddigital.com