You don’t make a billion dollar investment, without taking measures to protect it! Just days after Twitter‘s video platform Vine, attained more linked tweets in a day than Instagram, Facebook has moved to recapture video market share with the launch of 15 second videos on Instagram. This was clearly a well-planned initiative. That Video on Instagram was …Read More…
Over the 12 months to 2013, time spent watching video on mobile devices has doubled. In the first 3 months of 2013, the market share of video viewed on handheld devices grew by 19 percent. In a 24 hour period on 7 June, tweets with links to Vine, exceeded those to Instagram. Within 2 weeks, …Read More…
Digital Tsunami has launched yet another site built with “responsive design” which dynamically reformats to present the most appropriate (and readable) content in the desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone on which it is viewed. The Hong Kong company formation and corporate secretarial and accountancy services provider, Comsec has been a Digital Tsunami client since 1999. During those …Read More…
Throughout the exhibition halls of 2013 CeBIT Australia one trend showed considerable growth compared to 2012. The number of QR codes. On business cards, booth displays and print documents, QR codes were dramatically in evidence. Although developed nearly 20 years ago, by Toyota subsidiary Denso Wave, for streamlined scanning of automotive parts during manufacture, the QR code still retains an innovative impact. It offers …Read More…
More people on the Internet are communicating via social media than ever before, and Facebook is the most popular platform. In the first quarter of 2013, over half the world’s Internet connected population is using Facebook! Using data collated by Global Web Index, Statista has just released a chart of the world’s ten largest social media sites by …Read More…
It is 40 years since the advent of the mobile phone, an invention which has changed business and human society. I was fortunate to have met the first person in the world to make a call from a cellular phone. In an act as historic as Alexander Graham Bell’s first telephone call, made on March …Read More…
The growth rate of mobile Internet access has exceeded that of initial Internet growth. Statista has just released a chart to demonstrate this comparison. The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) figures for global internet traffic between 1997 and 2003, show a 127% annual increase. Mobile IP traffic however, has now reached an annual growth rate of 146%. Mobile traffic in …Read More…
In speaking with numerous people recently, it is clear than many do not understand the meaning of the term “responsive design” as applied to a web presence. Resizing and responsive are two entirely different animals. Let me explain. A responsive site is one which responds to the width of the browser. That does not mean …Read More…
Nielsen has just released a report “The Mobile Consumer. A Global Snapshot, February 2013” The research covers 9 countries across 5 continents: Australia, Brazil, China, India, Italy, Russia, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States. Interesting data reveals world leadership by the rapidly developing BRIC countries: In Brazil, 75% of the respondents use their mobiles for social networking, …Read More…
Released on March 10, 2013, the Nielsen “Australian Connected Consumers Report 2013” provides insights into the evolving patterns of consumers’ media consumption. Data includes the aggregate time spent on the Internet per day, connectivity during the hours of the day, how age is reflected in device usage patterns, and the increase in ‘out of home’ Internet access. …Read More…
