Quick Hit: Samsung tablet looks like the stuff you see in sci-fi movies
The old objection from dogged print Luddites has always been that digital will be the equal of dead-tree “when I can fold up a display and stick it in my back pocket.”
The video is in Korean, and, as some of the commenters point out, the batteries for such a display would have to also be invisible, weightless and almost infinite. Which, I’m guessing, is something of a stumbling block at this time.
Quick Hit: Aliens ponder why humans are stressed out around the holidays, when they could just use their mobile phones to shop.
This is quickly becoming one of the favorite viral video hits of the holiday season – something about how the aliens are puzzled by all the stress we put ourselves through just seems to strike a chord. As does the Homer Simpson-esque “Mmmm … eggnog” utterance of the paternal alien.
But what struck me most here was how the aliens, giving advice to us silly humans, casually thumbed (blue tentacled?) through Argus’ fully mobified site on their HTC smartphones. What that tells me is that shopping via your mobile device is simultaneously a big deal … and yet, something that anybody could (and should) do, since it is a time, money and stress-saver.
What a brilliant sell. In much the same way as E.T. sold us all on Reese’s Pieces, maybe these blue, longnecked, terrycloth aliens, will sell the public on the idea that phones are a perfectly acceptable way to spend money. The fact that this ad isn’t like the aggressive, lightning-bolts + explosions + cyborgs = smartphone usage ads (that actually kinda intimidate most users above the age of 16) is a clear indicator that this kind of user behavior is reaching beyond the early adopters and into the “Harried Moms” market segment.
Google wants all of us to ‘mobilize’ our websites. Google seems to favor the word “mobilize,” others use the term “mobify,” but the basic concept is the same. Google wants you to create a version of your website that is mobile friendly.
This week Google launched GOMO, a new initiative that is clearly part of Google’s new mobile advertising strategy.
The site, designed in the latest flavors of HTML5 and CSS3, is one giant page that you can scroll around to find tips on mobile design, design services, and a simple test of mobile functionality.
If you’re web browser doesn’t support the latest in web technology, you may have trouble with the website. Google Chrome is the (no surprisingly) recommended choice of browser. Warning, surfing the site with Safari on an iPad can lead to blank screens when you click on some links, but if you stumble around you can get it to (mostly) work.
If you’ve been wondering whether it was worth the effort to make your site mobile friendly, clearly Google thinks it is. If you’re a web designer specializing in mobile design, you should definitely be aware of this new initiative.
Our friends at ActionsCafe http://www.wblady.com/, just released a new Dreamweaver Behavior and GoLive Action that can help you make your web sites more interesting to users of iPads, iPhones, and iPads, which don’t support Flash Files.
As more and more magazine and newspaper publishers acknowledge that the mobile platform is the future of content (or at least of any reasonable way to monetize said content), they are looking long-term at whether it makes sense to pay the 30% “Apple Tax” to have their content appear in the App Store, or if [...]
The Milwaukee Zoo apes are having a blast playing with iPads …hey, at least I didn’t go for the cheap pun – “going Ape for iPads,” “made a monkey out of…” “snub their bananas in favor of Apple…” etc. If there was any doubt about how intuitive it is to learn how to use an [...]
QR Codes on Pro Women’s Beach Volleyball Bikini Bottoms OK, I apologize for the pun. But c’mon. This story is made for it – I think Betfair has gotten more in “earned media” than they could have ever hoped for… According to Andy Lulham, the Betfair head of Sports and Marketing PR: “There is huge [...]
Man, WebOS just can’t catch a break can it? By the time Palm finally Bit The Fabled Large One, most mobile insiders agreed that WebOS was pretty much the best platform out there. Yeah, yeah, I know — all the Apple Fanbois and Androidweebs will point out that since then, their OSes have evolved & [...]
If you’ve been thinking about creating an eBook App, the first thing to do is to take a look at the books and magazines already in the iTunes App store. From Wired Magazine to Al Gore’s new “Our Choice” eBook App to Inkling’s digital textbooks to the interactive Dr Sues books, there are many great [...]
Man, I really like my iPad and iPhone, but this is some serious gadget-lust. (h/t Giz-China, as if you couldn’t tell from the watermark on the photo below) Reminds me of the high-grade counterfeit phones, shoes, handbags, etc., that I saw in Addis Ababa recently. Still, you gotta applaud the audacity of these smugglers, if [...]
