The state of the mobile/social universe - a great infographic from Jesse Thomas on the size of the mobile marketplace compared to social network numbers.
Very informative and interesting infographic. (via pinchzoom)
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From the excellent crew at Teehan & Lax:
TweetMag is an iPad and iPhone app that takes twitter feeds and turns them into wonderfully simple magazines. It works by finding links in a twitter user, list or search – then grabs their headlines, abstracts and media to create a TweetMag. Articles then become prioritized by what’s being tweeted about most.
Looks like Flipboard may have beaten them to the punch, but I’m still psyched to get my hands on this.
Huge congrats to Loren on this.
“As messages sent via Twitter cannot be longer than 140 characters, they cannot be copyrighted. However original, witty, or profound they may be, nothing more than good manners protects your original expression of authorship. If you wish to let other people quote or use your Tweets, you need not “license” them; indeed, technically, you cannot license them, since they are in the public domain the instant you publish them.”
For those who don’t follow me on Twitter, I’ve spent a few hours today getting “share” buttons on my site. I ran into a few hiccups along the way, so I’m posting a brief recap, in case it helps anyone else.
“Who are the 3 'must-follow' authorities on the mobile web?”
Anonymous
I’m having trouble cutting this list down to three: Peter-Paul Koch (@ppk), Brian Fling (@fling), Brian LeRoux (@brianleroux), and Jonathan Stark (@jonathanstark).
“While it’s true that traffic is now again actually worth something, the give-everything-away-and-make-it-up-on-volume strategy stamps an expiration date on your company’s ass.”
French illustrator, Stéphane Massa-Bidal has created a set of posters portraying modern web services as classic book covers.
Aaron Staton and Rich Sommer checking out Tumblr on the set of Mad Men.
Very friendly Monster Friends poster series available from Familytree. The Kracken, Yeti, Loch Ness, & Sasquatch, by Alex Pearson, ...
This article is specifically about pixel “density”, a relatively new concern to digital designers. In the mobile environment, screen resolution has...
