4th September
Apple’s iOS more popular than Linux OS
This is hardly a shock, and the figures are still very small, but the fact that a mobile operating system available on just one family of devices (albeit a very popular family) has overtaken a long established desktop OS in terms of internet stats is a clear sign of things to come.
“Apple’s iOS mobile operating system is now the third-most popular platform on the Internet, with a share nearly six times larger than Android’s, a Web measurement company said Wednesday.
Collectively the devices that run iOS — the iPhone, the iPod Touch and the iPad — accounted for 1.1% of all hardware on the Internet last month, more than enough to shove Linux off its perch as the third-place operating system on the Web.”
via Apple’s iOS beats Android 6:1 on the Web – Computerworld.
2nd September
Twitter and Traders
One of the most practical uses of twitter we’ve seen.
“Haley now has 9,175 followers. Among them are commodity traders looking for clues about crops and information about the markets in which they trade. Haley doesnt know for sure how many of his followers are traders like those on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade, now part of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME – news – people . He suspects its a minority. However many are out there, they may be the closest, most dedicated followers farmers have–particularly now, when billions of dollars are riding on crop yields.”
via Farmers Twitter Lucrative Tips To Commodity Traders – Forbes.com.
31st August
Gmail Priority Inbox
Gmail’s new Priority Inbox looks interesting – certainly something to speed up your workflow if you’re using their services.
So You Need A Typeface
A humorous and surprisingly truthful look at typeface choices.
Arcade Fire and HTML5
This Arcade Fire music video makes pretty intensive use of HTML5 to do something a bit different and is well worth a look. Make sure you watch it in a modern browser and close down most of your open apps to see what it can do!
Google and Arcade Fire Team for HTML5 ‘Experience’ | Epicenter | Wired.com.
30th August
New Project: Marilena & Michael
We mentioned this on twitter earlier, but we’d like to further extend our congratulations to Marilena & Michael, who we produced a simple wedding website for a couple of months ago and whose wedding took place this weekend.
It’s something a little different from the corporate work we normally take on, but an enjoyable project nonetheless. Take a look at the website in our portfolio.
Pull Over Before You Read This
“The temptation for drivers to participate in the realtime, social stream will only increase in coming years as Twitter, Facebook and other apps are built into our dashboards. Car manufacturers will attempt to include safeguards into their systems to prevent drivers from actually texting with one hand while they steer with the other. But the inclusion of the realtime web in our cars will be one more powerful suggestion that the information in the stream is so urgent and critical that it can’t wait until you park the car.
And drivers aren’t the only distracted folks on the road. Take a few commute-hour drives down 2nd Street in San Francisco and you’ll see what I mean. They are everywhere: Pedestrian zombies walking across the middle of a four lane road with their attention glued to a handheld. The compulsion to keep up with the stream has become so powerful that we’re gradually abandoning one of the first and most basic rules we all learned as kids. Instead of looking both ways before we cross the street, we look one way; down at our phones.”
29th August
Avoiding the Uncanny Valley of Interface Design
“Not all projects need to have the selections sitting on a perfectly lit wooden bookshelf. On one hand we want to be creative and make something that is appealing and can sell the product. On the other side we have to question the cost of that approach on the experience itself and balance style and function with purpose.”
via FINCH
28th August
The vertical US banknote
Another Dollar Redesign effort, this one going for something pretty different to the rest:
“Why a vertical format?
When we researched how notes are used we realized people tend to handle and deal with money vertically rather than horizontally. You tend to hold a wallet or purse vertically when searching for notes. The majority of people hand over notes vertically when making purchases. All machines accept notes vertically. Therefore a vertical note makes more sense.”
via Dowling | Duncan – Dowling Duncan redesign the US bank notes.
Slow Pages Lose Users
An interesting article with data to back it up:
Bing and Google Agree: Slow Pages Lose Users – OReilly Radar.
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