That’s 2/3 of the global population – roughly 4.6 billion people. In 2002 it was 1 billion. The penetration in developing parts of the world is as high at 57% – no wonder Google and MS keep going on and on about how they’re no longer focusing on the desktop.
Nielsen just released a few of their top tens of ‘09 on their blog. It should be interesting to compare these to 2010 at the end of this year year – I personally think Android will be much more prominent among devices. Not necessarily the Nexus 1 but who knows? At this point, I want [...]
Hearing your own voice can be kind of creepy but I’m pretty happy with how this interview turned out. Yay RSS Ray!
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Nielsen released some very encouraging stats on mobile usage last week – apparently it’s up 34% from last year from 42.5 in July 2008 to 56.9 million in July 2009.
Even more interesting is that fact that a lot of this growth can be attributed to teens (13-17) who’s usage increased 45% and seniors 65+ who [...]
I just came across this great deck from Razorfish NYC’s John Pettingill. He’s not saying anything too revolutionary – most digital strategy people with experience in mobile will tell you the exact same thing. But it’s one of the best presentations of the “mobile as ambient user experience” mantra that I’ve seen.
An Internet Watered Down
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…or relaunched or whatever you want to call it. After a rumored acquisition that would have taken Ewan MacLeod’s popular mobile industry blog subscription only, he’s back with a restructured deal and a 3.0 version of his site. If you follow the mobile industry and you don’t read it, now’s the time to get acquainted [...]
I was pretty impressed with the video demo for the new SkyFire browser but it’s only available for Nokia and WinMo though supposedly they’ll soon support Blackberry. I’m looking for a way to test drive it though since I’m always suspicious of a full PC experience via mobile in terms of speed and usability. This [...]
More fun from StatCounter Global Stats.
I find it kind of hard to believe that many people are surfing via their PSPs.
OK, I am really late in posting this since actual work is keeping me so busy but I’d be remiss in not doing a post on it. I think that the “all mobile sites suck” paradigm is flawed – the problem is that most brands are trying to design a site that services both 2.5 [...]
mobile, social, ambient
