According to a study published by RJMetrics titled New Google Plus Data Shows Weak User Engagement, 30% of first-time users on Google+ who post publicly never do so again, and those that do, on average, wait 15 days to make their second. Equally as interesting is user response to public posts: An average of 0.77 [...]
Post by Bill Dugan
Eye Candy
Take a peek at this web-based magazine design: Suit Up Or Die. I like the way it works both on the web, but sadly when I pull it up on an iPad I get a message saying it’s not available for mobile devices. It seems to me that something set up this well for a [...]
Bad Men.
Newsweek magazine did a front-page story on the return of Mad Men this week, and in an inspired bit of creativity, turned the clock backwards to the early 1960s. The cover layout references the magazine’s typeface and design of that era, and they continued the idea inside the magazine as well, using period fonts, page [...]
Don’t Lose Your Smartphone.
Via BoingBoing, a report by Symantec is out studying the consequences of losing a smartphone. According to the study, it’s pretty much guaranteed someone’s going to try to break into the phone and steal passwords, data, or online banking information. Each phone also was loaded with programs to track what finders did with the devices, [...]
Ghostery
Is your browser feeling a little slow these days? One cause for that (besides the fact that you’re leeching the WiFi feed at Starbucks) could be the number of scripts, cookies, and other bots that track your movements across ad networks, blogging platforms, and media sites. Ghostery is a plugin for most modern browsers which [...]