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6 Brilliantly Designed Mobile Sites 9 weeks 2 days ago

This series is supported by Webtrends Mobile Analytics. Webtrends Mobile Analytics lets you monitor the adoption and usage of your mobile apps and mobile sites. To keep up with Webtrends Mobile, add their blog to your RSS reader.It’s true: the mobile web is taking over the world, and by 2015, many predict it will be larger than desktop Internet use. It’s no wonder everybody’s racing to build mobile versions of their websites.

Think Everyone Has a Smartphone? Think Again [STATS] 17 weeks 1 hour ago

comScore released a report today detailing U.S. mobile market share for the first three months of 2010. The report focuses on the leading mobile OEMs (original equipment manufacturers, or phone makers) and U.S. mobile operators based on subscriber data, as well as how mobile owners use their phones.Some of the numbers are predictable. For instance, Verizon is the largest mobile operator in the U.S. with approximately 31.1% market share. However, the OEM data is more surprising because it highlights just how many people are not using smartphones. Check out this chart from comScore that highlights the top mobile OEMs of users age 13+:

5 Things to Consider When Designing Your Mobile App 8 weeks 1 day ago

This series is supported by Webtrends Mobile Analytics, which lets you monitor the adoption and usage of your mobile apps and mobile sites. To keep up with Webtrends Mobile, add their blog to your RSS reader.Thanks to the slogan “There’s an App For That” and the surging iOS, Android and BlackBerry markets, it seems like practically every company has a mobile app. In fact, in many ways, the mobile app today is what the website was ten years ago — one of those tools that has transferred from being a luxury into a necessity for businesses of all sizes.

What a Girl Wants: More Mobile Shopping, Survey Says [STATS] 17 weeks 1 day ago

Mobile shopping company miBuys conducted a survey of 1,600 women on mobile phones and found that the overwhelming majority of them were open to more mobile marketing and mobile shopping.These respondents love using the mobile web overall, this study shows; 94% said they even use their phones to surf even when they’re at home and nearby much more powerful devices, such as laptop and desktop PCs. These heavy mobile users are big on social sites — 86% access Facebook, Twitter or similar networks on their mobiles — and 93% said they’d feel lost without their cell phones.

AOL Buys Mobile App Dev 1 day 21 hours ago

AOL has purchased mobile application developer Rally Up to improve its mobile application offerings.
For the first time, AOL mobile applications will consist not only of mobile versions of its desktop and web offerings, but also include new products that launch first on mobile devices.
Rally Up will be based in AOL’s new West Coast office in Palo Alto and work closely with David Temkin, the Vice President of Mobile at AOL.
“Within the last year, the Rally Up team has demonstrated its keen understanding of the way that people want to use their mobile devices to interact, share and better communicate and of the tools necessary to address those needs,” said Temkin.

55 mobile web design Inspiration 1 week 2 days ago

In this post We Find some Mobile Web Designs To Show You One Of Future Trends.Today we showcased 55 great mobile webdesigns to get you inspired!
1) Mail Chimp

2) Vondi

3) Mit

4) American Modern

5) USC Mobile

6) Toy Soldier

7) design Quest

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9) Yourhere

10) cnet

11) Moosejaw

12) Css Tricks

13) H&M

14) iWeather

15) Webdesigner depot

16) Intel

17) Amystoddard

18) Dolce&Gabbana

19) World pics

20) King’s Phone

21) Single Hop

22) Daily Finance

23) nclud

24) Mex

25) Marcel Muller

26) jQTouch

27) Pixanimal

28) Erskine Design

29) iSynonyms

Mobile Web Design: Best Practices 2 weeks 2 days ago

The explosion in user adoption of mobile devices has revolutionized the web. Though designing for the Mobile Web follow similar principles to designing websites, we must consider some notable differences.
For one, current mobile device networks don’t run in the same speed as broadband devices.
In addition, there are also a myriad of ways our mobile web designs are displayed in, from touch screens to netbooks, which make even the smallest desktop monitors look like giants.

Some might argue that going mobile isn’t necessary yet, however, what no one will disagree with is that it’s an inevitable turn in the profession of people who make and run websites.

Mobile e-commerce? 3 weeks 2 days ago

There is this website I have been working with they are now planning to launch a mobile version of their site. The thing that I have been worrying about is the duplicate content as this mobile site will be displaying the same products with the same titles and descriptions. Would Google see the mobile formatted sites differently for the SERPs compared to the regular websites? Is it possible for a website to get penalized by Google for being a mobile formatted site with similar content? Any comments on this?

HOW TO: Optimize Your Mobile Site Across Multiple Platforms 7 weeks 3 days ago

This series is supported by Webtrends Mobile Analytics, which lets you monitor the adoption and usage of your mobile apps and mobile sites. To keep up with Webtrends Mobile, add their blog to your RSS reader.One of the most difficult aspects of designing for the mobile web is making your site compatible and accessible across different devices. A mobile-optimized site might look great on your iPhone or Android device, but utterly fall apart on Symbian or BlackBerry handsets. Likewise, a simple WAP-enabled site might be fine for feature phones, but fall short of expectations when it comes to newer and more advanced devices.