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IE has persisted in the world as the top used browser – until the last week of May 14 – 20, 2012. For the first 7-day period in history Google’s Chrome browser takes the lead. For many website developers, this is great news because developing interactive experiences for Chrome provides flexibility and cost effectiveness. Parts [...]

HTML5 is what user experience should have always been without plug-ins and the sometimes excruciating “loading…” times. Imagine never having to be confronted with another “click here to download plugin” or “loading…and still loading…” message again. User experience utopia? Maybe not, but definitely user experience relief. In the near future, using HTML5, we’ll be able [...]

HTML5 is being developed as the next major revision of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), the core markup language of the World Wide Web.  It’s the evolution of HTML4.1 used widely today and includes HTML and XHTML. HTML5 proposes to replace the need for proprietary plug-in based rich media software. No need for the user to [...]

And… I won’t be standing in line to buy this version of the latest iProduct and here’s why: No Flash support, just like the iPhone. I can put up with blue boxes in the place of websites on the iPhone, but not on a tablet that I’d like to use for surfing! (Not to mention [...]

Apple’s Market Cap Closing In On Microsoft’s (MSFT, AAPL) Remember when Apple was on death’s door and needed an investment from Microsoft to survive? Well, a lot’s changed since then.  In May 2000, Apple’s market capitalization was $17 billion. Today it’s $182 billion. Meanwhile, Microsoft was around $356 billion in May 2000. Today it’s around [...]

On June 7th, 2009, I presented “Mobile Apps that Work”  at nextMedia in Banff. Check out the presentation below. We’ve come a long way in mobile technology since Nokia introduced it’s first mobile phone in 1982. Today, we know every business needs a mobile application but not many marketers know how to make it work [...]

With consumer confidence down, consumer spending down, why bother spending money developing Marketing applications for the iPhone/iTouch? Well, ongoing research is demonstrating that brands that ignor iPhone application strategy for their products are, and will be,  leaving money on the table. In market research terms, iPhone users have now become their own “segment”. Not only [...]

Today and into the future, the Digital Marketing practice invariably includes application development. In terms of Mobile, your product marketing Roadmap likely includes an iPhone application, right? If you’re developing for the iPhone, you’ve also got to think about Android (Google’s OS), and Symbian (Nokia’s OS) as well. Here’s a great 5-minute video walk through [...]