tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26007064761781780822024-03-19T04:02:12.886-07:00Duke Thinking OnlineThoughts on how the Internet and other technology make this the most exciting time in which we could ever live.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger270125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-41589762346901535632014-03-20T12:58:00.000-07:002014-03-20T12:58:43.562-07:00Online CarsI have been fascinated by the fast adoption of driver assist technology in cars.
My daughter just bought a new Honda mini van. It has back up cameras that frame the space in colored lines to tell you how close you are to hitting something. Then it beeps at your if you are too dense to understand the lines.
I get beeped at a lot.
It also has a right side camera so you can see the right Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-52482617694792629382011-08-22T06:02:00.000-07:002011-08-22T06:02:21.024-07:00Todays Reading Online August 22, 2011Content Snackers Become Cord Cutters. Is change finally coming to our best friend - the TV set?
Skye - while being bought by Microsoft - keeps acquiring companies.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-51918948078916216412011-08-21T10:09:00.001-07:002011-08-21T10:09:08.712-07:00Intersting News from last WeekHere are some interesting posts from this past week.
How Will Discovery Drive Transactions? Is search really being replaced by discovery through social recommendations? If not, then I believe it is certainly being competed with and supplemented big time.
Mobile technology 2011 video. Interesting short video highlighting how folks are using mobile tech.
Hand mounted sonar replaces cane for Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-38996106224758092912011-08-18T13:19:00.000-07:002011-08-18T13:19:08.611-07:00http://myemail.constantcontact.com/IPhone-App-from-SehMobile.html?soid=1104089983203&aid=kV-a05toRVQhttp://myemail.constantcontact.com/IPhone-App-from-SehMobile.html?soid=1104089983203&aid=kV-a05toRVQUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-19012219337628023652011-08-05T13:20:00.000-07:002011-08-05T13:20:48.858-07:00Android State or iPhone State?Jumptap had a really fun chart and report out today. See below...
Where do you live?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-42594026832755472242011-07-31T13:11:00.000-07:002011-07-31T13:11:32.648-07:00Top 3 Things that Make a Great Small Business Phone Appthe world of smart phone apps is changing faster than anyone can keep up with it. Still, the basics of relationship building apply when deciding what makes a great phone app.
Here is my current list of the top three things that make a grat small business phone app"
Interaction: To be effective your agency phone app must be interactive. If not, the app experience will fall flat. A great Agency Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-91094157205103981162011-06-20T13:39:00.000-07:002011-06-20T13:39:18.170-07:00Time Spent Using App Passes Time Spent Browsing WebFlurry released a report today showing that people now spend more time using mobile apps than they do browsing the web from their personal computer.
Talk about a major change. Your web site is still your foundation, but your phone app just got a lot higher priority.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-64974989865514784872011-06-17T10:04:00.001-07:002011-06-17T10:04:04.466-07:0062% of Consumers Want Mobile AppsInteresting coverage on ReadWriteWeb today about a study done by DemandWare.
Read more here.
They go on to compare what consumers say they want to a Forrester Study released today estimating growth of sales through mobile.
My conclusion is that businesses are failing to provide what consumers want and that is holding back sales.
Sounds like a great opportunity for new sales with light Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-49944122936219819242011-06-01T10:14:00.001-07:002011-06-01T10:14:54.700-07:00Smart Phone Market Share May 2011Neilsen's new number on the smart phone market share wars...
http://sehmobile.blogspot.com/2011/06/samrt-phone-market-share-may-2011.htmlUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-51429316302703338812011-06-01T06:20:00.000-07:002011-06-01T06:20:21.185-07:00Trends for Next 4 YearsRobert Scoble has a thought provoking post at The Business Insider today where he talks about what Google will look like in 5 years.
But that is not what interested me. He made a list of the trends he sees as happening in force - or not with 3DTV - during this time.
Here they are. How are you preparing for them?
First, what will the trends be for the next four years?
1. Mobile will get Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-33301322854192038382011-05-31T05:07:00.000-07:002011-05-31T05:07:10.831-07:00Generation GapThe Kiplinger Letter had results of an interesting study at the end of 2010.
To me it highlights the basic reason small business has been so slow to understand not just the importance of the web, but the transcendent effect of mobile technology.
Simply put, the folks that own the small businesses do not yet use the technologies most of their prospects use.
Here is a snapshot of the results...
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-46170117874289521612011-05-19T11:23:00.000-07:002011-05-19T11:23:50.126-07:00Mobile Marketing QuestionsAngela Bray has an interesting post over on the HubSpot Blog today.
Here are my highlights. Take a moment to read the rest at...
http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/14311/6-Mobile-Important-Marketing-Questions-Answered.aspx#ixzz1Mp9BZxlw
As more and more of us rely solely on smartphones and tablets for information, mobile marketing is the growing jackpot for businesses. Technology Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-59597567865736072252011-04-26T07:27:00.000-07:002011-04-26T07:27:42.040-07:00Last Typewriter Factory Just ClosedA sign of the times from today's The Business Insider.
"Godrej & Boyce's Milind Dukle tells the Business Standard:
"From the early 2000 onwards, computers started dominating. All the manufacturers of office typewriters stopped production, except us. Till 2009, we used to produce 10,000 to 12,000 machines a year."We stopped production in 2009 and were the last company in the world to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-65130853387112376602011-03-25T11:06:00.000-07:002011-03-25T11:06:11.418-07:00Smart Phones Now Growing 3 Times as Fast as Babies Being BornInteresting stat from a post on Read Write Web.
"Did you know there are 3X as many smartphones being activated every minute around the world than there are babies being born? That's according to Hans Vestberg, CEO of Ericsson."
I guess if we don't get started making babies faster those smart phones aren't going to have a place to go soon.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-22291916351990590602011-03-22T07:03:00.000-07:002011-03-22T07:03:00.719-07:00Android Will Trump iPhone 2 to 1Post over in TechCrunch today.
"According to GetJar, almost 40 percent of respondents said they will switch to Android for their next phone, compared to the 18 percent who said they would like to switch to the iPhone."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-32550522668106543132011-03-17T10:09:00.000-07:002011-03-17T10:09:00.589-07:00Mobile Apps versus Mobile Web PagesAnother good ReadWriteWeb post about deciding which to use - Mobile Apps or Mobile Web pages.
Here is the slide show...
Sxsw app vs. web
View more presentations from Patrick Mork
Our approach with SehMobile is to take advantage of both. We create an App for you to take advantage of those strenghts, but we give you a great online content management dashboard to allow you to open web pages - Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-63031595287840273112011-03-16T09:58:00.000-07:002011-03-16T09:58:00.885-07:00How to Convert a Facebook Profile to a PageReadWriteWeb has a very good post on how to convert a Facebook profile to a Page for your business.
This is something that we all hear we should do, but how to do it is never clear - and often changes.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-40223164226741511292011-03-15T09:51:00.000-07:002011-03-15T09:51:00.391-07:00Android Becomes Market Leader in US Mobile Phone UserscomScore announced new market share numbers for the three months through Jan 2011.
The data showed that 65.8 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones during period, which is up 8 percent from the preceding three month period. While Android passed iOS in terms of subscriber share in the previous period, this is the first time the Google-developed OS has unseated RIM from the number one Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-33885474619474293172011-03-14T09:48:00.000-07:002011-03-14T09:48:35.554-07:00Google Maps Mobile UsageFrom an article in Tech Crunch - Google VP Marissa Mayer told her audience at the SXSW Conference that 40% of Google Maps usage is mobile. And Christmas and New Years day had mobile usage of Maps surpass the desktop — which is a first for Google products. Google Maps now has 150 million mobile users. To put that in context, Maps for mobile had 100 million users in August of last year.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-89651798223707176652011-02-11T08:08:00.000-08:002011-02-11T08:08:00.084-08:00Android Passes iPhone for Total U.S. SubscribersAnother interesting tidbit from TechCrunch , in the fourth quarter of last year Android passed Apple's iPhone as the #2 smart phone platform in the U.S.
RIM - Blackberry - was still #1, but look at the growth numbers. RIM is going in the wrong direction.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-27346809974337041932011-02-10T08:02:00.000-08:002011-02-10T08:02:00.862-08:00Decline in E-mail UseFrom TechCrunch, ComScore tells us something we could all have guessed - teens use email less and less.
More interesting info in the graphic below is that all age groups below 55 years old are showing a decline in email usage.
What about you?
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-8074067863192228022011-02-09T07:59:00.000-08:002011-02-09T07:59:27.771-08:00Smart Phones Out Sell PC'sAnother sign of the times. According to IDC, in the 4th quarter of 2010 there were 100.9 million Smart Phones shipped from manufacturers versus 92.1 million PC units.
This is the first quarter ever where Smart Phones have out shipped PC's.
But I doubt it will ever be reversed.
The truth is the Smart Phone is the Personal Computer for all of us who have a Smart Phone. That number is over Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-83013377001513724682011-02-01T12:33:00.000-08:002011-02-01T12:33:18.831-08:00SehMobile and EZLynxHere is a screen capture of one of the agencies using our SehMobile app with a link to EZLynx real time rating pages.
Here is the link on a screen..
Here is the EZLynx page it opens in the Vertical view...
Here is the EZLynx page it opens in the Landscape view...
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-26377979080166395082011-01-27T08:32:00.000-08:002011-01-27T08:32:53.512-08:00Why One Agent Bought SehMobile Phone AppThis morning I talked to an agent who just purchased our SehMobile Phone App for his agency.
He told me why he bought it,
He learned about the app on Tuesday and mentioned it to his teenage daughter and wife. He says his daughter lives on her smart phone and loves her apps.
Apparently his wife and daughter mentioned it to their friends. On Wednesday he told me at least 20 of his customers Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600706476178178082.post-81864671394158661402011-01-25T12:22:00.000-08:002011-01-25T12:22:44.559-08:00SehMobile is LiveWhat a great day!
SehMobile is officially launched and underway.
For months we have had a team of as many as 7 people working on our new service which lets you create and customize a phone app for your agency.
But the work never ends. Now we get to build out new features to grow this service so it is the most valuable tool your agency has for connecting with customers and prospects.
One thingUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0