Archive for August, 2011

Domino’s: iPad Hopes on Back of iPhone App & M-Commerce Success

Today’s web news…

Domino’s continues to dominate mobile commerce with the launch of their iPad app this is after sales from Domino’s iPhone and smartphone app surpassed 10m within 8 months of its release.  Domino’s Sales and Marketing Director Simon Wallis said this week they are confident about iPad sales on the back of their success with their iPhone and smartphone app; “We have achieved fantastic sales to date through mobile channels – our iPhone app generated £10m in pizza sales in just eight months, we expect this trend to continue with our new iPad app and further take-up of our existing apps for iPhone and Android.”

In other news BA have launched a Facebook app ‘Perfect Days’ where BA destinations can be explored and planned through shopping, culture, outdoors, and dining or drinking filters and e-commerce Trustmarks are put to the test, which one do e-consumers trust most?

Domino’s Launch iPad App on back of iPhone App Success with Vexed

Which e-Commerce Trustmarks Work

Putting Your Best Site Forward: A/B Testing Webinar

App.Net Gives mObile App Makers Instant Web Presence

Android App That Tests Data Usage For Your Mobile App

BA Launches Facebook App for Destination Discovery

Rail 3.1 Released

Smartphone New Access Soars

Case Study: NY Times Longitude-Data & Location

LG New Edition to 3D Cinema TV Range

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.

Social TV Records Smashed

Today’s web news…

Over the weekend the MTV Music Video Awards scooped its own prize, by breaking records for social networking interaction with the TV broadcast of the event with 5.5m mentions via social media on Sunday, August 28. The success has been attribuated to MTV’s continued drive towards a ‘second screen’ approach and the use of the VMA hashtag as a form of branding.

In other news Google’s vision for integrated Internet and TV (with their name on it) saw the announcement it will roll out Google TV in the UK later this year and the gender technology divide is evident in new research on users of tablets and e-readers.

Social TV Records Smashed by MTV Video Music Awards

Augmented Realisty: Metaio’s Vision

Google TV Makes Its Way To The UK

Tablets Are From Mars, e-Readers Are From Venus

Fast Mobile Ordering: Multi-Platform Diners

Drivers of Mobile Geo-Targeting

Facebook Closes Deals & Boosts Photos

What Does The Future Gamer Look Like?

Adstream Acquires Little Black Book

‘Internet is Fundamental to The Future of TV’ says Google’s Schmidt

Wallflower Blocks Socialization of Web Browsing

The End of Social Media 1.0

Designing for 5 Screens: PC, Mobile, TV & More

iTunes Match Beta Launches for Developers

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 development with HTML5

Today’s web news…

Facebook struck back at Google’s Plus (for those of you not using yet its main aspect is ‘Circles’ for controlled sharing) by upping their privacy to the same level.  What it means for brands and social media marketers is more precise targeting for deals and a move towards a more personalized media experience all round.

Talking of personalization; TV is slowly but surely moving towards a new era defined by users. Going is the one way information dictatorship it once was as it evolved into medium more like the Internet, indeed integrating with online, mobile as the lines blur between our separate media channels.

Mobile Development With HTML5

Forkly App Matches Your Tastes To Nearby Restaurants & Bars

Why The Future Of TV Is Personlization

What Facebook Privacy Crackdown Means for Brands

Google+ Brand Accounts: What Social Media Managers Want

Usability & Multivariate Testing

ReDigi: Recycle Your Digital Junk

STV’s Digital Prospects For London

Location Opportunity For Quora

Virtual Goods & Places Annotation Abandoned By Gowalla

StreamJam Launches as StageIt & backBEAT Competitor

MySpace Wants To Play Comeback Kid & Focus on Music

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.

Steve Jobs Resigns From Apple

Today’s web news…

The big news was a shock announcement from one of the most respected and revered business figures of all time: Steve Jobs resigning from Apple.  Jobs famously staged the biggest corporate comeback of all time returning to Apple to lead it to supreme domination and desirability worldwide.  There are many tributes to his career and analysis of what his departure could mean for the planet’s forefront technological and lifestyle brand on the internet today as we wave goodbye to an undeniably influential man as he contemplates a new role within the company he co-founded and shaped.

Steve Jobs Resigns: Reaction

Apple Mastermind’s Legacy

HTML5 Based Drag & Drop Game Creator

BBM Based Music: Sharing & Social

Samsung’s iOS Rival

Mozilla’s Web API

App Guide: Crodsourcing iOS Apps

Kabam Planning a Major Social Game

Verizon Wireless Pushes Mobile Payments

BBC Crowdsourced Mobile App

Ticketmaster & Facebook: Sit With Your Friends

Guest Blogging For Effective Link Building

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 Reacts To Google+: More Privacy Control and Sharing

Today’s web news…

Facebook has reacted to Google+ (which emphasises controlling sharing through ‘circles’) by honing the privacy settings once again and giving more control to users as to how they share with ‘Friends’, Facebook also phased out their ‘Places’ platform on mobile having partnered with Foursquare.

In other news LivingSocial added a travel section to their offers site in a bid for differentiation from other group-deal sites such as Groupon, while the founders of Twitter unveil their new project focusing on ‘Human Potential’…

Facebook Reacts: More Privacy Control and Sharing

Facebook Phases Out Places in Mobile

Mobile Mapping

LivingSocial Stands Out With Travel Deals

Twitter Co-Founders New App for Human Potential

Coca-Cola Mixes Mobile With Social

Flingo’s TV App Platform Is One To Watch

Music With Me Integrates Twitter & AmazonMP3

Tips For Top Ranking Mobile Apps

The Sims Social: 1.5 Million Facebook Friends Already

Lest Talk: Cloud Alternative To Facebook Messenger

Digital Ad Growth Has Resumed

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.

Android developers can start writing Google TV apps

Today’s web news…

Google released a preview version of its Android plug-in for programming which will enable developers to start writing software for for Google TV platforms. It means “developers can build great new Android apps for TV, optimize existing mobile or tablet apps for TV, and distribute those apps through Android Market.” said Ambarish Kenghe, a Google TV product manager, in a blog today.

In other news Miramax became the latest film company to partner with Facebook in streaming movies (joining Warner Bros., Paramount and Universal) and Topshop is set to target its younger audiences with a back to school partnership promotion with geo-locational gaming platform SCVNGR using a check-in and reward system to entice shoppers in-store.

Android Developers Can Start Writing Google TV Apps

Miramax Joins The Social Network Giant Facebook in Streaming

Topshop Targets Student Shoppers with SCVNGR Campaign

‘Hangout’ Button Lest You Watch YouTube Videos With Your Google+ Friends

Adding Weather To Your Site With jQuery and YQL

Inside Facebook: Foursquare

Replatforming and Why It Is Important For e-Commerce

Codecademy Surges To 200.000 Users

US Judge: Cloud Music Lockers Do No Violate Copyright

Readings Wants To Be Your Only Daily Reading App

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.

Empire Avenue Now Supports Foursquare & Instagram

Today’s web news…

While HP announced on Friday their plans to abandon palm/web OS based platforms, Sony Ericsson unveiled their new Live with Walkman smart phone.  The new handset runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread and is deeply integrated into Facebook through links into all the key apps and unsurprisingly has a direct button to the Sony music shop.

In other news  social media gaming site Empire Avenue has hooked up with Foursquare and Instagram to continue the expansion of their platform after a link with Linkedin and find out who’s suing who in the mobile patent wars.

Empire Avenue Now Supports Foursquare & Instagram

Kondoot Takes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+ with Video

Sony Ericsson’s Social Music Smartphone

HP Ends Palm/WebOS Baed Smartphones

Google+ Gets a ‘+1′ for Browser Security

Skype to Buy Group Messaging Company GroupMe

The Mobile Patent Wars

Why The Future Of Work Is Play

YouTube’s Music Page: New Features

Codecademy Gamifies Learning Javascript

Google+ Pins Verification Badges on Users

Milyoni’s F-Commerce Social Theatre

iPad2: Augmented Reality 3d Gaming

Discover Banksy Street Art With New Location App

Google Maps The Weather Now Too

New Social Media Magazines For Business

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.

Foursquare Tunes Into Songkick data

Today’s web news…

Foursquare has teamed up with several other content partners, including British music startup Songkick, in broadening its scope for checkins to events.  Foursquare now can track not only just where you are but what gig, event, sports game or movie you’re attending as well as event details.  Events will now be visible in over 50,000 locations hours before they start with an added function for reviewing events after they have happened.  Sports channel ESPN will enable Foursquare to show tips and after-match summaries in their news feed.

In other news QR codes are gaining momentum, Flurry says the way to go is consumable or Freemuim in Gaming and Facebook hosts its first fan page film with 1998′s cult classic The Big Lebowski…dude!

Foursquare Goes Beyond Place: Adds Events, Songkick Data, Movies and Sports

HTML5 and The Death of The App Store

Consumable Goods Dominate Mobile Games

Bing Launches Get-Together App

Web-Based QR Business Cards Make Networking Personal

QR Code & Mobile Ad Research Challenges Music Marketing Assumptions

The Week’s Best Music Apps

Watching Film With Friends…on A Facebook Fan Page

Google+ Hangouts Can Now Be Initiated From YouTube

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.

iPhone Alarm Clock Donates Your Snooze to Charity

Today’s web news…

New iOS app Snooze has come up with a novel way of making modern sleepaholics feel less guilty, indeed positively saintly, about hitting the snooze alarm in the morning.  Their new app donates $0.25 (roughly 15p) on your behalf to charity every time you hanker down for 10 more minutes.  This is either a subtle and fun way to get us to donate more to charity or a one-way ticket to detention for being late to work.  Either way its a nice idea.

In other news Facebook hurls some random taunts to Google in the cyber playground along the lines of ‘no one wants to play with you’ whilst Google says ‘Hello Moto’ while sticking its metaphorical tongue out to patent bullies.

Domino’s Pizza Big Brother Promotion

M-Commerce Innovation Briefing

Giageo Invests £6.5m in Premix Push

MTV Companion App for Television

Google Says Hello Moto to Patents

iPhone Alarm Clock Donates Your Snooze To Charity

Facebook: Our Games Win vs Google+

Facebook and Google Spar Over Google+ Invites

Google Photovine’s Unique Spin on Photo-Sharing

Ubuntu’s Stairway to Cloud

Guide To Measure Social Media Strategy Results

Smirnoff’s Madonna Nightlife Exchange

How Bing+Firefox Could Change The Search Landscape

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 & Motorola Mobility

Today’s web news…

Google produced 12.5 billion dollars today in a move to “supercharge Android, enhance competition, and offer wonderful user experiences.” by acquiring mobile maker Motorola.  What this means for Apple’s reign and Nokia’s attempt to re-establish itself with lowcost Android remains to be seen, however Google state they plan to run Motorola Mobility as a separate business as a licensee of Android.

In other news Starbucks brews up another multimedia marketing strategy, this time handing out free iPhone apps with your cappuccino, while US commander in chief President Obama checks into online geo-locational social network Foursquare.  He is still yet to become a mayor of a Domino’s and receive his free weekly pizza however.

Google & Motorola Mobility

Starbucks Serves Up Free iPhone Apps

3 Mobile Apps Poised to Change The Consumer/Brand Relationship

Kuapay Lest Mobile Users Pay With QR Codes

President Obama Joins Foursquare

Foursquare Launches Tip Lists

Domino’s Social Arcade Game Scores Free Pizza

The Shape of CSS

Google+ and Search Results: The Opportunity For Brands

Movellas Democratizes eBook Publishing

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.