Posted by: Søren
in Technology on Oct 19, 2011
I know this may sound a little boring, but I like statistics. I like to measure things - especially on the web. And when working with web and business measuring is important.
Yesterday I found the website BuiltWith and BuiltWith Trends, which provides weekly updated free information about the most popular technology used on the web across all areas of web technology.
Posted by: Søren
in Technology on Oct 16, 2011
Twitter is integrated into iOS 5, so you can begin tweeting directly from Safari, Photos, Camera, YouTube, and Maps along with third party apps. This is a very cool move from Apple and the reactions have until now been very positive. Personally I like the feauture very much since Twitter is my first choice in the social media landscape.
I use Twitter as information and inspiration media, and I am also a little active on Twitter myself (but not as much as I wish). Apple has been leading the digital development for the last decade and the big question is if Twitter will see even more users after the Twitter integration in IOS 5?
Posted by: Søren
in Technology on Oct 31, 2010
A little month ago I attended a morning seminar about apps for smartphones arranged by DIS/PLAY and Greener Pastures. On this seminar the app company Greener Pastures told us how they experienced the development with Danish apps - an uphill business until Danske Bank launched their app for iPhone and later on for Android smartphones.
Greener Pastures told the audience, including me, how important design and usability is - when you design an app. It is so different from making a CMS website or a regular website - you can tell when you download an app - and you don't like the design or navigation: Delete!
Posted by: Søren
in Software on Oct 10, 2010
Inspired by a blog post on Joomlabamboo I thought I would share my knowledge when it comes to updating a Joomla! website. Back in 2007 when I first started out with Joomla! CMS I did not know you had to update a Joomla! website 10 (or more) times a year due to security fixes etc.
In the beginning I just ignored the small updates, but as one of my friends Joomla! website got hacked I began updating my sites immediately when an update was released. Initially I used the FTP client Transmit - and updated the website manually by replacing and adding files in different folders. A really long updating proces which, if I was fast, took me more than 20 minutes per site.
Posted by: Søren
in Business on Sep 17, 2010
The biggest bank in Denmark - Danske Bank, has just launched an iPhone app where you can check your finances on the go. The app let's you transfer money between your own accounts or to other peoples accounts. Furthermore the app can find the nearest Bank, ATM etc. Impressive.The design and user interface look quite nice. Looking forward to see some innovation from my bank - Nordea.
Get the app here and read more here.
Posted by: Søren
in Technology on Aug 29, 2010
Through my job as a digital consultant I came across QR codes, which is the initialism of Quick Response, a few times. A QR Code is a matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code), readable by QR scanners, mobile phones with camera, and smartphones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on white background and the information encoded can contain website URL’s, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and other personal messages or data.
QR Codes was created by Toyota subsidiary Denso-Wave in 1994 and the QR code is one of the most popular types of two-dimensional barcodes and it's widely used in primarily Japan and Asia - but because of the rising use of smartphones and mobile phones with integrated camera the use and potential with QR codes or mobile tags are to be seen everywhere in the public space, advertising campaigns, events, museums, super markets and so on. The potential is huge - and eg. Calvin Klein has already used QR codes in a marketing campaign. QR codes can be used both in offline or online marketing campaigns - I guess the only barrier is your creativity.
Posted by: Søren
in Marketing on Oct 16, 2009
Pepsi has just released an iPhone application to build op some long time needed brand value. But but.. according to many Pepsi has come across the border with its application that guided boys how to score girls. The name of the application is "AMP UP Before You Score".
The program included an overview of 24 female types and instructions for scoring the different types. Furthermore, there is an opportunity to show off your "score record" via email, Twitter or Facebook.
Posted by: Søren
in Technology on Oct 08, 2009
As Twitter is growing, the need for shorter links is increasing rapidly. A lot of software can shorten urls, if needed. But on a lot of websites you can actually shorten your urls online. Very much needed if you want to tweet, via a computer without any shorten urls software installed.
Bit.ly is one website I prefer, where you can shorten, share, track your links etc.
About bit.ly:
bit.ly allows users to shorten, share, and track links (URLs). Reducing the URL length makes sharing easier. bit.ly can be accessed through our website, bookmarklets and a robust and open API. bit.ly is also integrated into several popular third-party tools such as Tweetdeck. A more full list of third party tools can be found on the bit.ly blog. Unique user-level and aggregate links are created, allowing users to view complete, real-time traffic and referrer data, as well as location and metadata. Tracking stats are available after users shorten their long links with bit.ly by clicking on the “Info+” link on bit.ly, or just adding a “+” sign to the end of any bit.ly link (for example, http://bit.ly/n0og+).
Go shorten your links here.
Posted by: Søren
in Music on Sep 24, 2009
Ghostly Record’s new iPhone/iPod Touch app is an innovative application. The apps purpose is to let you sample all kinds of music from Ghostly records based on mood, color, style, etc. The application take care of the rest, picking songs that fit your mood and probably introducing you to some artists you may not have heard.
A nice way to market music in a digital age where consumers has not got a lot of loyality towards the music industry. Furthermore the application has a beautiful design:
Posted by: Søren
in Software on Aug 28, 2009
Today I installed the newest version of Mac OS X on my Macbook Pro 17. The new version is named Mac OS X Snow Leopard and it runs actually very fast. In this version of Mac OS X Apple focused on usability + speed and not so much on innovation/new programmes and features etc.
To be honest I find this very attractive. Speed is the most important thing to me. The Finder has been completely rewritten in Cocoa to take advantage of all the modern technologies in Mac OS X, including 64-bit support and Grand Central Dispatch. My computer is not running 64-bit, but I am very pleased with the speed my on my Macbook Pro 17.
